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MMOB has gone all-out local and fairly off-the-computer these days, which has been lovely indeed. Here’s a bit of our latest:

MMOB got swept off our feet by Rob Hopkins’ Transition Towns concept back in 07, now known as Transition Initiatives. MMOB hosted workshops and co-sponsored events around Transition, then joined with our many allies in West Marin to form www.transitionwestmarin.org, the 28th “official” Transition Initiative in the States. Jan Markle is doing a wonderful job with that Transition West Marin site — do check it out for photos, video, etc. from our local Transition activities. For more background on Transition, there’s a nice wiki at www.transitiontowns.org, some excellent book and movie resources at Rob Hopkins’ blog www.transitionculture.org; and then buckets of goodness at the United States site www.transitionus.org. A grand thing about Transition is that ANYTHING you do to build community resilience and reduce fossil fuel dependence & emissions counts. Policy changes matter, composting toilets matter, town celebrations & art matter, work against corporate personhood matters, volunteering in the classroom matters, elections matter, getting arrested to stop coal matters, making your own stuff matters. And having a big town turnout for 350.org day matters too!

Transition West Marin & Friends sit for 350.org (photo by Art Rogers)

Kris & Megan with MMOB’s Solar-Paneled Tea Trolley

MMOB’s Thank You banner for Transition Bo-Stin’s splendid bike path celebration gets signed by all the kids!

Then, ever since Nicasio rancher John Wick spoke up during our “Exploring Transition in West Marin” workshop, we’ve been hogwild for his Marin Carbon Project, and are hosting public awareness events in its support. Check it out at www.marincarbonproject.org. The basics are this: a 3-year study of how grazing lands can be better managed to radically accelerate their CO2 sequestration capacity is turning out early results that blow the doors off expectations. For some rough video from film crew EON.org, watch John Wick on this topic:

Finally, MMOBsters Gail, Bernie & Lisa are active on the Marin Clean Energy front, which is in the contract phase and under the usual big money attacks from PG&E. What are YOU up to? Email megan@themmob.org with any goodies.