SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK ITEMS
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Introducing Re-skilling for Local SufficiencyTRANSITION
KAW VALLEY by the Sustainability Action Network Sustainability Action will soon be organizing Community re-skilling workshops. We’d like your help selecting the most desirable workshops. Here’s why. Society is facing ecological breakdown — “The Great Unraveling” as Joanna Macy calls it — the result of mass extinction, soil degradation, oligarchy, drought and desertification, and more. The foundational problem is overshoot: Too many people consuming too much is undermining our very life support system. Humans have crossed six of Earth’s nine planetary boundaries — Planetary boundaries | Stockholm Resilience Centre — https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html. Many people in our community will be hard pressed to cope when supply chains begin to unravel, or inflation sets them back. In order for our neighbors to weather the polycrisis, a cooperative effort will work best. So sharing knowledge and survival skills is now our priority — called “re-skilling” Sustainability Action led a re-skilling effort around 2011. That was before most people saw the polycrisis coming. Now, as with a number of other communities, the time is again right for re-skilling. Your opinion can help us plan a range of re-skilling workshops.
Help us choose the most impactful workshops! OUR MISSION
The Sustainability Action Network is bringing awareness of the global crisis caused by climate disruption, energy vulnerability, and economic instability to communities in the Kansas River bioregion. We are initiating positive solutions inspired by the Transition and Permaculture movements. We bring the tools needed to re-skill and re-localize our economy and create a more socially just and ecologically sustainable world. Visit us on the web at – https://www.sustainabilityaction.net/, and https://www.facebook.com/sustainabilityactionnetwork.
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK MEETING
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 6:30pm – RESCHEDULED DATE
Sunflower Cafe, 802 Massachusetts St., Lawrence KS 66044
(NOTE: always the 4th Tuesday of the month) Also by Zoom – https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86437654296?pwd=b6arJ3UuKJziEhrhOQ4IO6YHLfSCgu.1
Passcode: z2mTD9
Please note – our free Zoom account cuts out after 40 minutes; we’ll restart it immediately, so simply log back on as we continue the meeting. Tentative agenda so far: - community re-skilling poll results
- schedule re-skilling workshops
- Lawrence EV show
- fundraising options
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