Held in Room 3017.
Tina Clarke, a Transition Towns Trainer & Community Resilience Consultant, will give the talk, “The Role of Community Initiatives in Transitioning Society: Observations and Strategies in the U.S. and Europe.”
How do we increase community resilience and well-being as social, economic and environmental problems deepen? The global Transition Towns movement catalyzed community-led initiatives to advance social change. Bringing people together to accelerate positive change at the community level helped inspire a new level of climate action. Today the Transition movement works with many others to supports neighbors, local organizations and businesses to work together and with local government to launch projects and strengthen well-being. Projects to expand local food, energy, economy and culture engage people to work together in positive, creative, practical and fun ways. How does the process work? How does it support existing local groups and leaders? How does it engage more and diverse people in practical action? Tina will share experiences and stories of successful models from both the U.S. and Europe.
For over thirty years, Tina Clarke has been a campaign director, trainer, educator, consultant and strategic advisor to national and international social change movements. She has spoken at hundreds of academic institutions, consulted with over 400 social change organizations, and catalyzed, trained and consulted with hundreds of grassroots citizen groups and thousands of citizen leaders.
This talk appeals to everyone who has an interest in building sustainable, resilient, and socially just futures!
Co-hosted by the UCSB Department of Sociology, Critical Futures in America: This Changes Everything, and The Global Environmental Justice Project.