[act-ma] Friday 11/05 The Transition Towns Movement, with Tina Clark (JP Forum)

[Liz Wambui]

Check out this week's event at the Jamaica Plain Forum!!! 

The Transition Towns Movement, with Tina Clark.

When: Friday November 5th at 7:00 PM
Where: First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
Speaker: Tina Clark

How do we prepare for a transition to the new economy in Jamaica Plain? Join us for a presentation about the Transition Town movement that is sweeping the U.K and the U.S. Learn what other communities are doing to create local-scale, ecologically-oriented development models to adapt to our changing environment and economy.

About Tina Clark:
Tina Clark has been an advocate, educator, consultant, and director of nonprofit programs since 1985. She was recently a consultant with Bill McKibben’s global 350.org initiative and the Sustainability Institute. She has been providing professional training and support for community leaders and campaigns for over 20 years. Tina lives in a below-zero energy, passive solar-heated, Platiunm LEED, low-toxic “Power House” that she helped design and build. In 2009 the home won the Massachusetts utility company-sponsored competition, the Zero Energy Challenge, and in 2010 won the NESEA award for zero energy buildings.  The house is free of all fossil fuels and wood-burning, and generated 2.5 times more energy than needed in 2009. 

Thanks to our co-sponsors: JP Greenhouse, BCAN, Cool JP, Bikes not Bombs

Upcoming Forum--

Buttoning up for Winter: A Weatherization Workshop

When: Friday November 12 at 7:00 PM
Where: First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
Presenters: Boston Building Materials Co-op and Boston Climate Action Network.

Save on your energy bills, save the climate, and be more comfortable in your home: How's that for a win-win-win for the winter? This Weatherization Forum will start with the basics of how heat gets lost in your home. Then we'll look at ways to reduce the energy that gets used intentionally and unintentionally, starting with "no brainer" steps you can take (easy ways of increasing efficiency and reducing demand) to great investments (slightly more challenging but eminently doable) to long-term measures (more expensive and involved). We'll conclude with an overview of community resources and a door prize drawing. The conversation will be led by representatives from the Boston Building Materials Co-op and Boston Climate Action Network.

Thanks to our co-sponsors: JP Greenhouse, BCAN, BBMC, Cool JP


For more information, please visit www.jamaicaplainforum.org


Elizabeth Wambui
Institute for Policy Studies-Northeast Office
Office Manager and Jamaica Plain Forum Coordinator
E-Mail: LizW at Ips-dc.org
Program on Inequality and Common Good
www.extremeinequality.org
www.jamaicaplainforum.org