Santa Cruz

If you don't think there's a powerful people's movement to save the climate, time to wake up and take heart! Start here with Bill McKibben's latest article, The Fossil Fuel Resistance. There's a local campaign to get our city and county governments to divest from fossil fuel companies, as Seattle and San Francisco already have. Sign the petition here. To get more active,...

Worldwide: There are fracking moratoriums now in South Africa, Quebec, and New Jersey, and outright bans in Tunisia, France, and Vermont, with bills pending in many other U.S. states. California: Three Assembly bills would restrict fracking activities pending a determination of whether and under what conditions fracking may be conducted without risk to human health or the environment.  Two...

Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:45 pm Kresge College, UCSC Note different time and location RSVP required (see below) Free/by donation Creating the New Economy: Building Systemic Change with Gar Alperovitz Instead of our regular potluck this month, we have a special event in honor of Gar Alperovitz' visit to Santa Cruz. For decades,...

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave. Free/by donation Family friendly Mad at the megabanks behind austerity? Looking for ways to create a cooperative prosperity? Join John David (TSC steering committee member and writer for the Public Banking Institute) as he decodes our current economic mess,...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave. Free/by donation Family-friendly The Spring equinox is coming, and the time has come again to share on a deeper level with each other. Here's a chance to let our hearts spring open with stories, poetry, rap, song, theatre, whatever is inside waiting to...

In case you missed the February potluck, or want to learn more about these threats to our planet's livability and the hopeful mass movement they are catalyzing, we've got a page for you! This is the link to a very readable introduction to these topics, with lots of further links to learn more and more...you know how the web works! The page includes a link to photos taken by our very own...

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave. Free/by donation Family-friendly Come hear first-hand reports from the largest-ever climate demonstration in U.S. history (in Washington D.C., February 17). We will show inspiring pictures of some of the 40,000 demonstrators and their hopeful and creative...

On the evening of MLK day, 35 people gathered in San Francisco for information and discussion on Fracking in California. Transition SF invited speakers to present information on hydraulic fracturing and how their organizations are opposing it in California.   Although fracking has been occurring in California for decades, we are now at the beginning of a new wave using aggressive new...

Hello! We are headed to the White House on February 17 to join what is sure to be a huge protest against the climate-killing Keystone XL oil pipeline proposed to be built to carry Canadadian tar sands oil to the Gulf of Mexico. Would you like to join us--physically or in spirit? Read on. If you would like to go, contact me (Michael Levy) at michael@transitionsc.org. We will be having meetings in...

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave. Free/by donation Family friendly Join us in a participatory workshop to explore "The New Simplicity." In the past, the idea of simplicity was seen as something austere and joyless. In the "new simplicity" people realize that "less is...