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Kathy Jacobson
  • Federal Creek Watershed, Federal Hocking School District, SE Ohio
  • United States
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At 9:46am on November 16, 2009, Charlotte Rose Putnam said…
Thank you for your warm welcome. I live out the road on the Washington County side, 1539 Mayle Ridge Road. My phone number is 551-9020. I am looking forward to meeting you in person soon.
At 10:36am on October 26, 2009, Maya Soliman said…
Thanks :)
At 7:54pm on October 23, 2009, Kristin Riley said…
Chris Wood is in my group and will also be working on the project. I appreciate your help.

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American Municipal Power (AMP) has cancelled plans for a Meigs County coal fired power plant in Ohio!

American Municipal Power (AMP) has cancelled plans for a Meigs County coal fired power plant in Ohio!

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Cleveland Plain Dealer informs us: American Municipal Power (AMP) will not build coal fired power plant

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How are you currently involved in the "Transition Initiatives" movement?
11/10/09 update: ...still here, still doing my best while reassessing and restrategizing for the path ahead. I resigned from my job and can now really get down to having fun. Wish me luck!

I've been traveling a parallel path for over 30 yrs and am happily, here now, at this place of convergence with you!

I have been a birth midwife, a death midwife and now feel I am in the role of a Transition Midwife.

I am a student, advocate and catalyst for the Transition Initiatives approach to building community resiliency in response to the dual drivers of climate change and peak oil. However, I also take an "All Hazard" approach to planning, mitigation, preparedness, response and adaptation.

I attended the Dec. 08 Los Angeles Training for Transition with Naresh and Sophi, the founders of Transition Totnes. I am one of the co-admins on this NING site, the executive director of the Broadwell Hill Learning Center and Resiliency Initiative and the creator of the Kindling Transition Broadwell and The Mullers groups on this site.

I am a life-long learner, Holistic Management practitioner, teacher, organizer, gardener, craftswoman, sustainable woodland farm steward. I seek to share the Broadwell Hill Learning Center with others for respite and reconnection. I welcome people for tours and welcome their participation in the demonstration projects here.

I am striving to strengthen my neighborhood connections while networking and collaborating with the larger community as a whole.

I host weekly neighborhood shared meals and conversations where the emphasis is on fun and social bonding. I also host public events geared toward a highly diverse target audience.

We are planning a Conversation Cafe event in conjunction with Global Conversation Week and the Ohio Severe Spring Weather Awareness Week. This event will incorporate a follow-up Transition Initiative presentation to help satisfy the great desire people have to take additional steps in their lives.

We are also planning a Fall 09 Training for Transition program in this area.

We are exploring community garden projects in our neighborhood as well as other collective hands-on projects and efforts in our local area.

I am in communication with many different folks on many different aspects of these transition efforts.

I strive to do my best, avoid assumptions, refrain from taking things personally and be impeccable with word and deed (Toltec Way of Wisdom). I practice ways to bridge the left/right sides of my brain and connect with all life while seeking and listening to inner guidance. I love to actively listen to people and participate in respectful dialogue within co-intelligent processes of teamwork.

I also like to experiment/utilize various communication/conversational literacy tools, organizational structure templates and decision making models toward building a strong foundation of common knowledge that helps save time, minimize redundancy while increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

I believe it is very important to gather as many supplies and tools as possible for this historic journey and learn which ones work best for any given situation.

We do not have time to allow our beloved egos to run the show, re-invent the wheel or grope around in the dark.

I therefore hope we will all make the effort and take the time to familiarize ourselves with Transition Network materials so that we can embark on this adventure into unknown territory with good supply of common knowledge at our disposal. We may decide to veer off the well-worn path but at least we would be able to make informed decisions about it.

After all, we also need humility and open-mindedness to new ideas and visions if we're going to tap into the creative wisdom and learn to adapt within this highly complex and dynamic process of evolution.
In what ways do you identify with the "Transition Initiatives" movement? Why are you interested?
I have been manifesting my visions and practicing the skills for a very long time. However, I am also a life-long learner and open to new ways of looking at things.

I am a positive goal-oriented person who knows I must also look at risk/threat assessments and plan/prepare/mitigate and practice working with others within an all hazard worse case scenarios systems approach.

It may seem to some like I am a survivalist seeking to live a lifestyle of self-sufficiency but I am driven to help develop systems of interdependence and localization toward greater overall resilience.

I know from experience that the top-down approach is not going to solve our problems. Our community leaders and political administrations know they need our participation but often don't know how to go about changing the paradigm to make it happen.

I served as our county's public health preparedness/bioterrorism infrastructure coordinator from 2002-2004 and interacted with numerous governmental and social support agencies.

Health departments all around the country are tasked via large homeland security related grants to move from silos to systems, develop a robust and resilient public health infrastructure to ensure the health and well-being of the citizenry within a worse-case scenario, all hazard systems approach.

I encountered great resistance to change however; I spoke up about my concerns to the local, state and federal levels. The health department eventually terminated my employment however the unemployment commission determined I had been "discharged without just cause".

I have not ceased my efforts on the grassroots level however and feel it is imperative that we, the people, rise up, get over "us vs them" mentalities and start working with very broad and diverse populations, including government.

We are all in the same life boat. We all have a paddle available to us and lo and behold we are all here with paddles in hand striving to learn how to work together on behalf of each other, our children and all life.

I rejoice that the Transition Movement is now rolling out in the US and picking up steam!!!

I believe the transition movement with its permaculture roots and the dual driver approach (peak oil/climate change) offers us great potential! Such an approach will also facilitate greater preparedness and resiliency with regards to related effects such as infectious disease outbreaks.

I believe the transition model can help us develop our skills at communication, decision making within complex dynamics and teamwork within a bottom-up/top down systems approach to all hazard planning, rebuilding community resiliency and creating a legacy for our children.

Thank you for all you are doing!
How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the "Transition Initiatives" movement?
I can continue to learn, practice, develop skills and offer forth any information and services that may be helpful.

I can develop relations with my neighbors and my larger community while expressing my desire to begin collectively building the systems needed for a post-carbon, limited resource, localized civilization.

I can strive to inspire individual action toward lifestyle change, the creation of neighborhood groups and transition initiatives within a networked system of teamwork.

I can plant a lot of seeds and throw a lot of pebbles into the pond of considerations. After all, one never knows which seeds may sprout or where the ripples may reach.

I can seek inner guidance, give great thanks, actively listen and have a heck of a lot of fun on this adventure...Tally Ho!
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