Transition Staunton Augusta -- Advocates for Clean Energy & Good Jobs, Staunton, VA
Building a 21st-century economy right here
Hardworking local farmer (and international farming superstar extraordinaire), Joel Salatin, of Polyface Farms, is the confirmed speaker for Transition Staunton Augusta's first ever Locavore Fest this Labor Day weekend. Salatin, whose farm and farming methods were profiled in Michael Pollan's groundbreaking work, The Omnivore's Dillema, a book that addresses food production and consumption … [Read more...]
A couple of days ago I suffered from a miserable funk. Why? Because it's so easy to become discourged by what's not happening in response to the looming energy crisis brought about by peak oil. Indeed, we should have moved faster and long before now to create the new energy economy. It is clearly an abdication of leadership at the highest levels along with short-sighted corporate dominance of … [Read more...]
Congratulation to Anne Armentrout, the artist referenced in an earlier blog post, for her 3rd place win in the Staunton Downtown Development Association's Filling the Half-Empty Glass: A Storefront Art Initiative with her piece, In Your Hands, Triptych to the Third Power, Plus. Armentrout worked in collaboration with Transition Staunton Augusta to create her triptych collage which she has since … [Read more...]
Yesterday the other "fishbowl" at 107 West Beverley Street in downtown Staunton may have looked like an offbeat art project itself, one of those quirky performance art gigs where pedestrian movements are carried out in a tight space. In reality, it was author/artist Gene Provenzo and myself installing, through sweat and laughter, THINK, the video advocacy piece Gene made in collaboration with … [Read more...]
