Hello Fellow Transitioners, Garden Club Members, Food enthusiasts and Permaculturists,
 
At 7 pm on Thursday, April 9th at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, I have been asked to be part of a group speaking on "Organizing our Neighborhoods for Life After Oil" and will talk about how Transition Town Santa Barbara is working on that.  Also speaking will be architects John Kelley and Dennis Thompson who will talk about their efforts towards community sustainability in Santa Barbara's Mesa neighborhood.
 
This FREE event has been organized as part of the "Life After Oil" series (see below for info on all three evenings) organized by the Community Environmental Council and sponsored by The Sustainability Project and California Central Coast Chapter. Event partners include the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, Quail Springs, COAST, GOO, SB Bicycle Coalition, SB Food Not Lawns, the Environmental Defense Center, the Mesa Paper and Fess Parker's Double Tree Resort.
 
Hope to see you there!
 
Linda Buzzell-Saltzman
 
Life After Oil lecture series
What will a post-oil world look like? Learn how everyday people are coming together to develop a new, more resilient energy economy.

Thursday, March 26, Why Do We Need to Think Beyond Oil?

Cost: Free

Speaker: Michael Brune is Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and a founding board member of Oil Change International, an organization dedicated to dissolving the political barriers to a clean energy transition. His recent book Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal explores the costs of oil dependency, the role played by politics and finance, and the possibilities for a post-oil economy.

Speaker: Dave Davis is Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council (CEC), whose Fossil Free by ’33 campaign is designed to move our region toward more efficient and renewable forms of energy in one generation (www.CECSB.org).

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Thursday, April 2, Organizing our Communities for Life After Oil

Cost: Free

Speaker: Rick Cole, Ventura City Manager has been called "one of Southern California's most visionary planning thinkers" by the Los Angeles Times and has made Smart Growth a priority for his region. The recent report, Post Peak Oil Vision Plan for Ventura, outlines how conserving natural resources such water and energy – and designing homes, transportation systems and communities to be more efficient with energy use – can protect a community from potential disruptions in energy supplies (oil shocks).

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Thursday, April 9, Organizing our Neighborhoods for Life After Oil

Cost: Free

Speakers: John Kelley and Dennis Thompson are local architects involved with a volunteer effort to increase self-sufficiency, community, and sustainability in Santa Barbara’s Mesa neighborhood. In addition to creating an architectural vision of a "Mesa Village," community, leaders in this neighborhood are publishing a monthly newspaper, hosting bi-monthly village meetings, and organizing regular "Mesa Food Exchanges."

Speaker: Psychotherapist and ecotherapist Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, M.A., M.F.T. is a member of the Seeds Committee of Transition Town Santa Barbara -- a new local organization that is part of a global grassroots effort to help communities make the transition to post-fossil-fuel, sustainable living.


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