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Food Resilience Visioning Session for Saint Clair Shores

Are you proud of the City of Saint Clair Shores and want to see it prosper long into the future?

Would you like to take an active role in envisioning a Saint Clair Shores with an even stronger local economy, more connected community, and more in balance with natural systems?

If these questions spark your interest, you should get in touch with Transition Saint Clair Shores, a local group that is focused on creating a more resilient City.

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So what does resilient mean? Resilience refers to the ability of a system to withstand shocks and problems and keep on functioning.

Resilience means being able to handle $10 a gallon gas because very little is needed.

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Resilience means having enough local food when far away crops fail or food is recalled.

Resilience means knowing your neighbors and knowing that they are there for you when you need a hand.

 

Transition Saint Clair Shores will be hosting a series of visioning sessions for the community of Saint Clair Shores over the next several months at the SCS Senior Activity Center on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month from 6:30pm-8:30pm beginning in March 2011. Anyone who cares about the community of Saint Clair Shores and would like to see it prosper into the future is encouraged to attend. Please bring your ideas for how we can make our city more independent of fossil fuels, more locally self-sufficient, and strengthen our sense of being connected with our community.

Transition Saint Clair Shores is a grassroots, citizen based organization of people concerned about the global issues of fossil fuel availability, climate change and globalized economics and specifically how these issues affect our lives here in Saint Clair Shores.

Transition Saint Clair Shores is affiliated with the Transition Town Movement which is currently taking place in local places all over the world and bringing people together to transform these issues into potential opportunities for creating more resilient and more connected communities.

The main goal of Transition Saint Clair Shores is to increase the general level of awareness of these issues and encourage citizens to participate in the creation of a community resilience action plan. This plan will address many different aspects of life in Saint Clair Shores and will focus on resilience, sustainability and community in Saint Clair Shores. The visioning sessions in March (March 10th and March 24th) will be focused on food. How can the city of Saint Clair Shores localize its production, distribution, and consumption of food? How can we bring people together around the issue of food and build community and better health in the process? For further information or comments contact Steve Kiluk phone 586-871-2587 or email him at stevekiluk@gmail.com

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