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Northern Berkshire Transition updated an eventFocused on creating a more stable and resilient community, Northern Berkshire Transition considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development. Building on the skills of local residents, the power of local associations, and the supportive functions of local institutions, Transition draws upon existing community strengths to build a stronger, more sustainable community for the future.
While many of the ideas of the Transition are not new, what is unique is that it unites people, working with a new understanding that social, environmental and economic issues do not exist in a vacuum; they are all interrelated and will most effectively be addressed together.
On this journey, we have adopted the following four assumptions:
A future with less oil can, if enough thinking and design is applied sufficiently in advance, be preferable to the present. There is no reason why a lower-energy, more resilient future needs to have a lower quality of life. Indeed, a future with a revitalized local economy would have many advantages, including a happier and less stressed population, an improved environment and increased stability.
Find out more about Transition here:
http://northernberkshiretransition.ning.com/profiles/blogs/about-transition
Saturday
April 28, 2012 at 6pm to May 20, 2012 at 7pm – Various Locations
Foraging Walks in the Berkshires On weekends during the months of April and May, Berkshire Farm & Table will present Where the Wild Things Are – eight wild food walks in our local landscape lead…
Organized by Berkshire Grown and others | Type: workshop
Sunday
May 13, 2012 at 6am to May 24, 2012 at 7pm – North Berkshire County
Click here for the BIKEfest Calendar of Events and Special Offers PRINTABLE BIKEfest POSTER WITH CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND MERCHANT OFFERS click here! Lots more happening at our Facebook page, Ch…
Organized by | Type: festival
May 19, 2012 from 11am to 2pm – MASS MoCA
Family Bike Rodeo at MASS MoCA 11am-2pm FREE Event (Rain Date Sunday May 20th), FUN Bike Contests with Prizes, Bike Challenge Course, Helmet and Bike Safety Checks, WIN a Kids Bike and other Free B…
Organized by Bike North Berkshire | Type: fun, family, event
Sunday
May 20, 2012 at 9am to June 1, 2012 at 7pm – Downtown Brattleboro
The second-annual Slow Living Summit, a major conference designed to foster cross-sector solutions for high-quality sustainable living, in which common good takes precedence over private gain. Our go…
Organized by Strolling of the Heiffers | Type: conference
Tuesday
May 22, 2012 from 7pm to 8pm – Price Chopper Community Room
Northern Berkshire Beekeepers Association meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at the Price Chopper Community Room in North Adams, January through October, at 7:00PM. Everyone is welcome. To find…
Organized by Northern Berkshire Beekeepers Association | Type: monthly, meeting
Tuesday
June 12, 2012 from 5:30pm to 7pm – Freight Yard Pub
North Adams Green Drinks A gathering of people interested in conservation and environmental issues - all welcome Join us for North Adams Green Drinks, the 2nd Tuesday of the month starting at 5:30…
Organized by Berkshire Environmental Action Team & Northern Berkshire Transition | Type: social
GMO Crop Sabotage on the Rise: French citizens destroy trial vineyardAug 2010Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain…Continue
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Let’s Get TheP.A.C.E. Program Back On Track The Property-Assessed Clean…Continue
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SIMPLY THINK 3/50 PICK 3 Businesses/ SPEND $50Think of three businesses you'd miss if they were gone. Stop in, say hello, pick up a little something that makes you smile. That's what keeps them around, after all.SPEND $50 a month among these…Continue
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The growing interest in regionalizing food systems is linked to broader concerns that the conventional agro-industrial food system has not effectively provided a nutritious, sustainable and equitable supply of food to the world's…Continue
Started by Jay Walsh in Uncategorized. Last reply by Northern Berkshire Transition Apr 16, 2011.
Protected Bike Lane for Main Street North Adams
The information below was compiled by Jay Walsh of North Adams, MA (4/20/12)
Highest and Best Use
Current North Adams Downtown Parking
What is a Protected Bike Lane
North Adams Comprehensive Plan - COMMUNITY PRIORTIES
Merchants Say Bike Lanes Good for For…
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Food Day at Williams College
Celebrate National Food Day on campus all week!
The first national Food Day is on October 24, 2011. At Williams College, we will rally around the national Food Day goals and celebrate our local commitment to “healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way” with a week of events from October 22 to October 28. Ranging from tastings to discussion to workshops and open-mics, the events during Food…
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