Postings Related To: Economy

Albany Arts & Green Festival

(Event Sponsored by Several, including Transition Albany)
May 19, 2013 11:00 am - Event Details

AAGFA wonderful opportunity to socialize, learn new stuff, eat great food (we have food trucks this year), hear some talented musicians, see the new Edible Garden, and take part in Albany’s annual Green extravaganza. Transition Albany is a sponsor this year and we’ve tried to extend the scope of tables offering information on how to create strong community and move out of the fossil fuel age.

If  you would like to help out at our table for an hour or two please contact transitionalbanyca@gmail.com. Thanks!

Posted in , , , , , , , , , on May 10, 2013

Money & Life

(Event Sponsored by Transition Albany)
June 2, 2013 2:00 pm - Event Details

Money & Life“Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster but as a tremendous opportunity? This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary wellbeing that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected.”

A profoundly hopeful, uplifting and energizing film, all helps us to understand the fundamentals of money – and how it got this way –  and how we can reclaim our lives from the rule of money.

Keep in touch as we develop partnerships with other local organizations and ask them to kick off audience discussion afterwards.

This film is being distributed in the spirit of the gift and you can watch it online here for a donation of your choice: http://moneyandlifemovie.com/

Watch this space…

Posted in , , , , , on May 10, 2013

Albany Community Clothing Swap

(Event Sponsored by City of Albany)
April 25, 2013 7:30 pm - Event Details
Spring Cleaning!! Clean out your closets and bring your 
wearable-but-unwanted clothing to the Community Center where you can 
rummage through everyone else's wearable-but-unwanted items. Bring one
bag or more of your washed, gently worn items (men's, women's, 
maternity, plus size and children's clothing) and be admitted to our 
fabulous swap room where clothing will be set out by type (pants, 
skirts, shirts, blouses, etc.) Choose items and take them home. There 
won't be a dressing room or mirrors, but you can try things on over
your clothes and meet your neighbors and ask them for fashion advice!
All sizes welcome, WOMEN'S PLUS SIZES VERY APPRECIATED
Posted in , , , on April 23, 2013

ELP Work Party

(Event Sponsored by Transition Albany Garden Group)
April 30, 2013 7:00 am - Event Details

An evening work party to include those who can’t make weekends.

Bring gloves and hand tools. We’ll plant, complete the “wall” of tree trunks between the garden and the lawn, and hang out to dream of what comes next.

Posted in , , , , , , , on April 23, 2013

Do The Math

(Event Sponsored by Transition Albany Garden Group)
April 21, 2013 7:00 pm - Event Details

Bill McKibbenOn the night before Earth Day 2013, all over the US people are sitting down to watch the movie, Do The Math, a celebration of Bill McKibben’s climate tour last year and of the growing movement for climate sanity.

Seeing this film will give you new hope that people power can indeed accomplish the improbable in our struggle with Big Oil Money. If people power could abolish an institution as ingrained as slavery, or a prejudice as deep as apartheid, or a social injustice as pervasive as the war on women, we can do this too.

Please invite your friends and attend a screening somewhere near you. You can locate your nearest location here.

Bill’s 2012 Do The Math tour, and the article of the same title he published in Rolling Stone Magazine started a serious and successful campaign to get educational insitutions divested from fossil fuels. Read about that here.

Since then, he has written another inspiring article, The Fossil Fuel Resistance, which you can read here.

And the US State Department is open for comments on its flawed environmental impact report on the Keystone XL Pipeline until April 22nd. So please send in your comments today. You can read about it and take action at this website: http://act.350.org/letter/a_million_strong_against_keystone/
Do The MAth

We are bigger than Fossil Fuels.

Posted in , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2013