We are currently trying to put a group/initiative together. We are planning on starting a "raising awareness" campaign in conjunction with learning more about the specific needs of our community, so we can address those as a group. Actively recruiting members.
Transition Centreville / Clifton is now organizing in the suburbs of Washington DC. We have had one public presentation by Dr. Jackson Harper on Peak Oil and will show the film "The Great Squeeze" in February 2011. We plan monthly presentations, films, workshops, and demos.
I have been participating in Transition for nearly 10 years in New Zealand. Much of my work with community groups has involved giving presentations, seminars, workshops and now a national conference. I am also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. I think it is great that people from all walks of life are developing along their own shared cultural vision, and not just followi
I have been born out of Dutch parents in the Dutch colony Dutch New Guinea in 1950. At the age of 5 we went back to the Netherlands were I had finished the studies as electrical, electronics and telecommunication ingeneer. when I was 21 I went to South Africa and worked over the years in all the study fields. In 1986 I went back with my own family to the Netherlands for economic reasons. I worked here for the firm Canon in the computer and photocopy machines department.
