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"Hi Michelle, Welcome to Transition Massachusetts. Thanks for your complete and thoughtful response to our application questions. I'm away from my main computer now, so this is only a brief note with a heads up about an event October 20th you…"

Oct 10, 2012

Michelle Kaplan is now a member of Transition Massachusetts

Oct 10, 2012

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How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?: The past few years I have been traveling around the country work trading on different organic farms and homesteads learning to be more self sustainable. I have connected with people in the Transition town Montague.

In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?: I think it's our duty to be responsible humans and come together in our local communities.

How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement?: I noticed the town I grew up in doesn't have a transition town movement. The closest one is Boston. Even though I don't live there any more, I want to set up a group and hopefully people take initiative

Your Favorite Groups/Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement: Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolent social change. FNB shares free vegetarian meals with the hungry in over 1,000 cities around the world to protest war, poverty and the destruction of the environment. The first group was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980 by anti-nuclear activists.

Alternative medicine and health
Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford ,The Green Pharmacy by James A Duke, P.H.D is the ultimate book on natural remedies and healing herbs ,Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health by Rosemary Gladstar, The China Study by Thomas M. Campbell II and T. Colin Campbell, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan, Food Rules by Michael Pollan
Websites about organic farming, work trades, apprenticeships, communities
http://www.wwoofusa.org/
http://www.helpx.net/
https://attra.ncat.org/
http://www.growfood.org/
www.ic.org
Books on homesteading and self sustainability
Urban Homesteading by Rachel Kaplan, Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes, Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto by David Tracey, Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz, Root Cellaring by Nancy and Mike , Preserving the Harvest: Recipes for Freezing, Canning, Drying and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables by Carol W. Costenbader, A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants by Roger Tory Peterson and Lee Peterson

Meditation / Mindfulness
It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice by Bo Lozoff, Were all doing Time by Bo Lozoff, Be Here Now by Ram Dass, The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh, Awakening to your Life's purpose by Eckhart Tolle, The Gift by Hafiz, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenburg,
Documentaries
Flow, End of Suburbia, Sick Around The World, Food Matters, Forks over Knives, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Gasland, King Corn, A Crude Awakening, the Corporation, Manufactured Landscapes, Hemp Revolution,
Media Education Foundation in Northampton MA produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media.
Bro Code, Mickey Mouse Monopoly, Girls Moving Beyond Myth, Peace Propaganda and the promised Land, Tough Guise, Consuming Kids The Commercialization of Childhood, Freedom of Expression, Red Moon Menstruation, Culture & the Politics of Gender,
Check out the website for more films on gender, health, politics, race, commercialism, etc.
http://www.mediaed.org

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At 2:22pm on October 10, 2012, Conrad Willeman said…: Hi Michelle,
Welcome to Transition Massachusetts. Thanks for your complete and thoughtful response to our application questions.
I'm away from my main computer now, so this is only a brief note with a heads up about an event October 20th you may find interesting. In addition to administering this site and serving on the initiating group for Transition Newburyport, I am one of the organizers for a New England-wide Transition/Resilience Gathering in Jamaica Plain. I will send more info this evening.
Conrad