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ANOTHER WAY TO THINK – An NVC course

ANOTHER WAY TO THINK: how to translate your judgmental, critical and blaming thoughts toward yourself and others into compassionate communication. Before you speak, you think. This four-week workshop will help you formulate empathetic ways of thinking that can profoundly affect … Continue reading

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Resilience in and around the home

Come to the winter Farmers Market in Amherst (Middle School), to see a slideshow that will teach and brainstorm about how to get food, heat, energy and water needs met without relying on external resources. (Meet in the Professional Development … Continue reading

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Traveling bicycle dinner

Come to an event on Thursday, June 5 at the Florence, MA VFW, from 7pm to 9pm, where over a gourmet vegan dinner and beer a group of avid bicycle advocates, authors and film-makers will talk to us and entertain … Continue reading

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SUNRISE & SUNSET GATHERINGS AT THE U.MASS. SUNWHEEL

SUNWHEEL GATHERING INFORMATION VERNAL EQUINOX 2014 — SUNRISE & SUNSET GATHERINGS AT THE U.MASS. SUNWHEEL: Thursday, March 20, 2014 6:45 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (EDT) Come mark the vernal equinox at the U. Mass Sunwheel. Celebrate the start of spring … Continue reading

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Permaculture Design: Connecting you with your backyard landscape

Learn how permaculture design connects you with your landscape, creating a mutually beneficial relationship of food production, native plants, and energy-wise design. This is an opportunity to join in a permaculture designer’s consultation and assessment of a local backyard landscape, … Continue reading

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Transition Film Festival, Second Chance

Wanted to let you know that this Second Chance to enjoy the 2012 and 2013 Transition Towns Film Festival Movies will be freely offered at two sites in March. We hope that you are willing to share this information with … Continue reading

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All Things Local Store grand opening on March 1st 2014

This has been a long project in the making. Years ago we had a name and a model, but not much else. What we really needed then was a location. It seems to me that since the location came into … Continue reading

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Effective Collaboration

Nick Osborne from the Transition Network in the U.K. coming to Amherst, MA on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21 & 22 to give his popular training. Nick is only doing three training weekends in the U.S. and the other ones … Continue reading

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All that happened this year

It’s about a year ago I have started this blog (Celebrating with this picture, made during the ). I initially set out to write every other week, but for over half-a-year I ended up being a ‘regular’ weekly blogger. I … Continue reading

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Bike building project: Completing a Bike

Out of the tree that we planned to build (see previous posts), one is completed. The big space between the front wheel and the handle bar is the cargo area, that folds up vertically for storage. As you can see … Continue reading

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