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Local Transition Town visioning session scheduled for February 1

By Mark | January 24, 2010

I’ve written quite a bit here over the last few years on the Transition Town movement. For those not familiar with the initiative, it involves the preparation and certification of towns attempting to address the duel challenges of climate change and peak oil proactively. It basically involves analyzing local food production, energy use, etc, and […]

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Ann Arbor, energy, Food, Sustainability, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bee keeping, canning and preserving, carpentry, Climate Change, composting, darning, Depletion and Abundance, fixing & re-use, gardening, Lisa Bashert, native landscaping, peak oil, permaculture, re-localization, salves, Transition Town, Transition Town Handbook, urban chickens | 4 Comments

Announcing the FLY Children’s Art Center

By Mark | September 27, 2009

My friend Ruth Marks is launching an incredibly cool children’s art program in Ypsi called FLY, and I had an opportunity this weekend to ask her a few questions about it… Here’s the interview: MARK: So, what’s FLY? RUTH: FLY Children’s Art Center is a non-profit organization that makes meaningful art making experiences accessible to […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 826, activities for kids, art, art installations, Cincinnati, Dearborn Public Schools, FLY, FLY Children's Art Center, For the Love of Ypsilanti, Hair Wars, Happen Inc, kinetic sculpture, kinetic Sculpture race, local non-profits, marble chutes, mobiles, new models for non-profits, powers and limitations of masking tape, risk taking, Ruth Marks, San Francisco Children's Art Center, scenery painting, teaching in public school, Willow Run Community Schools | 9 Comments

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