The Sprouts of Change: The Great Unleashing on May 22nd, 2011 in Albany, California, and SELC

It feels like God is crying right now. It's raining hard outside. The bad news continue from Tokyo.

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We should be preparing for an earthquake in San Francisco. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward_Fault_Zone

Albany, which is a town north of Berkeley, is having a "Great Unleashing" on  May 22nd. The following are some issues they will be addressing at the event:

• If the price of oil stopped trucks from running, how would we feed ourselves? Safeway and other food stores only have enough to keep us going for about three days.
• What if we couldn’t afford to buy the essentials we need? Do we have skills to share with others in exchange?
• What if pharmaceutical drugs became less accessible? Are there effective alternatives we could develop locally?
• Are our children equipped to deal with the practical demands of a life without gadgets and technological aids, most of them made overseas?
• How well do we manage during a power outage, or when the water’s turned off for a few hours, several days? What about sewage?
• How are we dealing with the realization that our children and grandchildren are going to be living with a lot less of what we’ve been taught is our “due”?

Shouldn't your community be discussing these things? See more at:
http://transitionalbany.org/albanys-great-unleashing/

Also in the neighborhood:
Scarcer Resources = We should learn how to share resources.
Check out: The Sustainable Economics Law Center, which seeks to explore what that might mean legally.