Subject: | Green Night pr for your presentation ANDREW |
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Date: | Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:51:50 -0400 |
From: | Andrew Baker <Bak...@gcc.mass.edu> |
To: | 'TinaC...@TransitionNetwork.org' <TinaC...@TransitionNetwork.org> |
Hello Tina –
Looking forward to your presentation on Wednesday at Green Night. Below and attached is the news release I sent out about it. Please feel free to forward to your network. See you there.
Andrew
Andrew Baker
Project Coordinator
Workforce Development Transformations Grant
Greenfield Community College
One College Drive, Room S208
Greenfield, MA 01301
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NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: Andrew Baker – Board President
For Immediate Release Western Mass. Green Consortium (WMGC)
Monday, June 10, 2013 (413) 775-1878 w
Green Night monthly information and networking event
Presents Tina Clarke on “Transition Towns” on June 12
(Northampton, Mass.) The Western Mass. Green Consortium’s (WMGC) monthly Green Night information and networking event will feature a presentation by Tina Clarke on ”Transition Towns” on Wednesday, June 12 at 4:30 pm. Green Night takes place every 2nd Wednesday at the Clarion Hotel in Northampton. The evening includes opportunities for participants to share brief updates on green building, renewable energy and sustainability-related events and activities, and a formal half hour presentation followed by discussion and networking. The North East Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) will present a brief report on its Green Building Open House Tour.
Tina Clarke’s half hour talk is titled, “Community by Community – Shared Stories and Best Practices in Transitioning our Region to a Resilient Future.” According to Clarke, Transition Initiatives are actively and cooperatively creating more locally resilient communities; communities that prepare themselves to weather any storm whether environmental or economic. "Transition Towns", as they are called, work together on projects in areas of food, transport, energy, education, housing, and waste as small-scale local responses to the global challenges of climate change, economic hardship and shrinking supplies of cheap energy.
Transition Towns are models of more sustainable and responsible ways to be in the world and with one another. Over 126 communities in the United Kingdom and around the world have become official members of the "transition" community. The model brings people in a town or community together to ask: "Knowing that significant action is needed to reduce global warming and climate instability, how can we help our community transition to greater energy, food, economic (etc.) self-sufficiency?"
Tina Clarke is a Certified Transition Trainer since 2008, and an advocate, educator, consultant, and director of non-profit programs since 1985. She has worked with over 200 communities in the U.S. and Canada in supporting community resilience-building. Additionally, she helped design and build her Platinum LEED “Power House” home that won the MA Zero Energy Challenge and
Massachusetts utility company-sponsored competition in 2010: www.ZeroEnergyPowerHouse.com. Tina provides free phone support to Transition Initiatives. Reach her at: 413-658-8165, TinaC...@TransitionNetwork.org.
For more information about Green Night and the Western Mass. Green Consortium, visit the WMGC web site or Facebook page at westernmassgreenconsortium.org. The Clarion Hotel is located at 1 Atwood Drive in Northampton, just off Route 5 south of the Exit 18 ramps to I-91. Free parking is available at the Hotel.
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