board member meghan williamson is all over the news!!!
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/104051959.html
http://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/28/business-conference-to-highlight-local-success-stories/
...
http://www.newsleader.com/article/20100930/NEWS01/9300326/Small-business-advocates-to-explore-Staunton-as-part-of-conference
http://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/21/the-sweet-sound-of-small-business/
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/104051959.htmlhttp://augustafreepress.com/2010/09/28/business-con
our beautiful secretary Ally Bowersock with the Mayor of Roanoke, and gaining national recognition:
http://www.informz.net/acsm/archives/archive_990241.html
our amazingly talented microloan - economic development - community-based business guru Meghan Williamson:
http://augustafreepress.com/2010/04/14/fund-fosters-growth-of-small-business-in-staunton/
last but not least our incredible Vice-Chair/Historian and resident permaculturist Adam Campbell:
http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=46436&CHID=2
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
4.16.07 join us in remembrance...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre
and a touching quote borrowed from Corey...
"We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly We are brave enough to bend to cry ... And sad enough to know we must laugh again"
and a touching quote borrowed from Corey...
"We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly We are brave enough to bend to cry ... And sad enough to know we must laugh again"
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
inspirational quotes
"Perhaps the first step toward regaining possession of our souls will be to repossess and re-plan the whole landscape." - Lewis Mumford 1968
"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first." — Wendell Berry
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1956
“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
-Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, 1923
"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first." — Wendell Berry
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1956
“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
-Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, 1923
Monday, March 1, 2010
forging an emotional bond
"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love." -S.J. Gould
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Press Release - Bulletin
Transition Studio, a start-up social innovation program that focuses on education for holistic sustainability has launched! Based on a farm in Blackstone, Virginia, Transition Studio offers workshop based education that promotes local resiliency and re-skilling.
Taking a four-point approach of Lifestyle | Design | Stewardship | Outreach, with workshop-based education to re-skill communities. The Lifestyle branch of classes will cover food preservation techniques, cheese making, sheering sheep and spinning yarn, and other community resiliency skills. Design will offer studios on design/build education, design for builders, and natural building. Stewardship will have a curriculum focus on holistic gardening, food, and permaculture. The outreach branch of the program will utilize instructional projects to give back to the local community.
In the first one to three years of the program, Transition will operate independently releasing a seasonal calendar of classes that are open to the public. The three to five year plan for growth seeks to expand and link with existing educational institutions to offer "for credit" courses, and a rural satellite campus to host students looking for an alternative to the traditional classroom learning experience.
"Think of it as Rural Studio, meets Black Mountain College, fused with the skills our country existed on only a few generations ago," says Kim Moody, the founding director. "There is a likely chance that in the next decade it will no longer be feasible for a tomato to travel 1,500 miles to get to our dinner plates. Gasoline and other resources may no longer be a "cheap" commodity, so Transition Studio is about re-educating ourselves how to take care of families and communities."
The educational institution will begin with it's first community event this summer, and it's first workshops this fall. In the meantime, follow their blog, become a fan on facebook, check the website, and by all means connect with them, they are all about community!
Taking a four-point approach of Lifestyle | Design | Stewardship | Outreach, with workshop-based education to re-skill communities. The Lifestyle branch of classes will cover food preservation techniques, cheese making, sheering sheep and spinning yarn, and other community resiliency skills. Design will offer studios on design/build education, design for builders, and natural building. Stewardship will have a curriculum focus on holistic gardening, food, and permaculture. The outreach branch of the program will utilize instructional projects to give back to the local community.
In the first one to three years of the program, Transition will operate independently releasing a seasonal calendar of classes that are open to the public. The three to five year plan for growth seeks to expand and link with existing educational institutions to offer "for credit" courses, and a rural satellite campus to host students looking for an alternative to the traditional classroom learning experience.
"Think of it as Rural Studio, meets Black Mountain College, fused with the skills our country existed on only a few generations ago," says Kim Moody, the founding director. "There is a likely chance that in the next decade it will no longer be feasible for a tomato to travel 1,500 miles to get to our dinner plates. Gasoline and other resources may no longer be a "cheap" commodity, so Transition Studio is about re-educating ourselves how to take care of families and communities."
The educational institution will begin with it's first community event this summer, and it's first workshops this fall. In the meantime, follow their blog, become a fan on facebook, check the website, and by all means connect with them, they are all about community!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
beautiful poetry
When a man starts out to build a world,
He starts first with himself...
Then the mind starts seeking a way.
Then the hand starts seeking other hands to help
Thus the dream becomes not one mans dream
But a community dream...
Not my world alone,
But your world and my world,
Belonging to all the hands who build.
[Langston Hughes]
He starts first with himself...
Then the mind starts seeking a way.
Then the hand starts seeking other hands to help
Thus the dream becomes not one mans dream
But a community dream...
Not my world alone,
But your world and my world,
Belonging to all the hands who build.
[Langston Hughes]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Thoughts from the movie "Garbage Warrior"
with Architect Mike Reynolds...
"we are facing a future where we are going to have to take care of ourselves alone."
"it's almost like a disaster has to happen for the rest of the world to start preparing, and then it will be too late."
and my personal favorite:
"we've got lots of people on this planet that can't see beyond the 'rule book'. "
[referring to how building codes, traditional building styles, etc have a great environmental impact, because we are extremely slow to change our habits and many of those are crippling our progress in the natural building world]
"we are facing a future where we are going to have to take care of ourselves alone."
"it's almost like a disaster has to happen for the rest of the world to start preparing, and then it will be too late."
and my personal favorite:
"we've got lots of people on this planet that can't see beyond the 'rule book'. "
[referring to how building codes, traditional building styles, etc have a great environmental impact, because we are extremely slow to change our habits and many of those are crippling our progress in the natural building world]
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