[Occupymendocino] Fw: Mendocino Coast Transition Towns - Local Community Mapping Event - 27 April

Thu Apr 4 17:48:00 PDT 2013

Local Community Mapping Event - 27 April

From: Mendocino Coast Transition Towns 
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Subject: Local Community Mapping Event - 27 April

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                  What Exactly Is
                  Community Resource
                  Mapping?


                  Mendocino Coast Transition Towns (MCTT) is part of a worldwide movement, a living and evolving network of human beings sharing in the co-creation of a healthier, happier, more resilient, more local, and more sustainable community. We are collectively transforming our reality together and transitioning our local scene.

                  In "Transition Towns," local people are working together to build durable communities capable of responding to the challenges of financial crisis, ecological destruction, climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, and the many other current challenges we face.

                  One important task for those engaged with the Transition Towns process is mapping out our community's needs and resources. The resulting clarity allows us to move forward with our work, to see what has to be done, and to initiate adjustments as necessary. Such a networking process allows us also to be more accessible to those around us, so that we can better work together to meet our community's needs.

                  In the process of community resource mapping, we will be assessing food, water, energy, land, waste, transportation, housing, industry, natural resources, environment, and similar resources. The categories are defined by the group. We ask: What do we have? What do we need? And how better can we work together to get our needs met?

                  So community mapping is both the recovery and the discovery of connections and shared ground that we all have in a community. The resulting maps bring into perspective a new worldview, and new useful knowledge that can open up new conversations for possibility. 

                  We are all mapmakers, and every community has maps. Together we release the genius that can only show up through our collaboration. With different mental maps about our community, we are empowered to do new, different, and more effective things to make our community more resilient, more local, and more sustainable. Come join us for this process.

                  [Special thanks go out to Lake County Transition Towns and Peggy Rose in Anderson Springs for providing the background material on which this summary of community mapping was based.]
                  - CCW


                 New Event:
                  Community Resource Mapping To Identify New Connections

                  Saturday 27 April 2013; 2 PM - 5 PM
                   
                  Get to know your neighbors, what's available locally, and how you can more directly support local businesses and organizations. Come join your neighbors for a free and fun afternoon of community mapping to help organize a more resilient Mendocino Coast. Together we'll identify: Who is doing what? What do we have? What do we need? What can we do individually and together? Topic areas will cover local food, water, energy, housing, health, arts & culture, zero waste, kids, seniors, businesses, goods and services, etc. 

                  With this information, we can (1) make better decisions, and more deliberately support local businesses, (2) identify new opportunities for collaboration, and (3) better focus our efforts on making our community more sustainable, resilient, and local. Come put your ideas on the map and help us connect the dots. 

                  Leading the mapping discussion will be Kelley Rajala, Founder of the Share Exchange, in Santa Rosa. The Share Exchange is a cowork space, small business incubator and a retail store, the Made Local Marketplace that sells only goods made in Sonoma County. Kelley has worked with Transition Sebastopol, mapping local resources and is on the initiating committee for Transition Santa Rosa. She is working on creating a North Bay Regional Economic Development Cluster that includes Mendocino County. Kelley has established a variety of small businesses herself, and in 2010 she was the winner of the Sustainability Trailblazer Award, conferred by the Leadership Institute for Ecology and Economy.
                   
                  Location:
                  Community Center of Mendocino (East Room)
                  998 School St., Mendocino

                  Directions:
                  Go west at the Route 1 & Little Lake Rd. stoplight, take first left onto School St., and proceed one block; it's the white building on corner; once inside, go all the way back to east-most end of hallway.

                  For more information about Mendocino Coast Transition Towns, contact Charles Cresson Wood at 707-937-5572, or email info at transitionmendocinocoast.org.
                   

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