Postings Related To: Health and Healing

Self-Acupressure

(Event Sponsored by Transition Albany Health Group)
June 16, 2013 2:00 pm - Event Details
Posted by Lourdes Gonzaga

Acupuncture_point_Hegu_(LI_4)Join us!

Learn key acupressure points you can activate any time anywhere to help you relax and enjoy your day! Tatyana will teach and lead the class through simple, gentle self-massage techniques that activate, access and move meridian energy in our bodies to help promote wellness, ease and vitality.  These techniques are used worldwide and commonly taught when you study Qi Gong or any form of martial art.  This class is appropriate for everyone.

Please wear comfortable, loose clothing. Thank you!

Class is free. Donations much appreciated! (more…)

Posted in , on May 20, 2013

Albany Arts & Green Festival

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

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

ELP Work Party

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

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

The World According to Monsanto? OR a Local Food Buying Club?

(Event Sponsored by Transition Albany)
April 28, 2013 2:00 pm - Event Details
Posted by Catherine Sutton

foodbuyingclubWe’ll see sections of the film, “The World According to Monsanto” to understand how widespread genetically engineered ingredients already are in the general food supply, and why this is dangerous. Then, after an hour, Rose Dallal wil talk about how we can avoid the fate of Oregon, where there is currently a complex battle between Monsanto and farmers who may lose control of food grown on their own farms: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/04/18-0

Following that  (around 3:30 pm), we will discuss the possibility of establishing a local organic bulk food buying club specifically to avoid expense and packaging. We have the offer of an Albany site. We just need to find out whether enough of us are interested in the same products! If you can’t come Sunday, watch this space for a list of potential items.

Please spread the word amongst people who may be interested, Many of us (including me) feel a fierce loyalty to our local natural grocery stores, but the intention here is to reduce our cost buy buying items in bulk that are not available in bulk locally.

Posted in , , , , on April 23, 2013

Do The Math

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

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