Transition Town Berea Featured in YES! Magazine
Towns Rush to Make Low-Carbon Transition
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The college town of Berea, Kentucky, one of the fastest growing communities in the state, is seeing its subdivisions expand and its farmland disappear. But one group of residents is making plans to help the community end its reliance on fossil fuels.
Dinner will celebrate bounty of farmers within 100 miles
Trendy event alert: On July 26, “locavores” — devotees of locally grown and raised foods — will bring dishes made with foods grown or produced no more than 100 miles from Louisville to a potluck dinner celebrating the bounty of area farmers at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church.
3rd Annual 100-mile Potluck and Live Auction
Bring a dish prepared with ingredients produced within 100 miles of Berea. Please write down your recipe and sources of ingredients. Recipes from the first three years of potlucks will be published in the Berea Local Foods Recipe Book in October 2009. Join us in celebrating and promoting the bounty of Berea’s 100-mile “foodshed.”
Berea signs on as Transition Town
BEREA — What if the energy supplies, food systems and other foundations of our modern economy and lifestyle suddenly changed? How would your community cope?
It’s a notion more of us have been thinking about during the past year. We saw gasoline spike to $4 a gallon last summer, then watched our consumption-driven economy slide into a deep recession.
Berea is one of nearly 150 communities around the world participating in a project called Transition Town. It is a citizen-driven effort to develop local strategies for coping with inevitable change in energy supplies and economic conditions that are no longer sustainable or good for the planet.
Getting Down to Work Workshop
Early in 2009, Transition Town Berea (TTB) became the world’s 134th official Transition Initiative, signifying a community working to increase its resilience to external energy, economic and environmental shocks. One of the efforts that gained TTB this recognition was the development of 36 recommendations for action by the city that were presented last November to a public meeting attended by about 90 people.
