Transition Staunton Augusta -- Advocates for Clean Energy & Good Jobs, Staunton, VA
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Tuesday, February 21 at 7 pm Mockingbird Restaurant, 123 W. Beverley Street, downtown Staunton When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and … [Read more...]
Join us for our next conversation in this three part series, "Beyond Green: Why Local Food is Just the Beginning," Wednesday, November 2 at 7:00pm. As the economy stagnates, many local families continue to face rising costs, unemployment, and home foreclosures. Now, with energy prices rising again, drivers also have to pay more and more to fill up their tanks. The media tells us things are … [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...]
After the success of our showing of Coal Country at the end of February, we are now announcing the next three showings in Transition Staunton Augusta's Local Motion Film Series. These films will make you think. They will inspire you. And they may make you angry. But however they make you feel, we hope the films will offer our community a chance to begin talking together about peak oil, local … [Read more...]
