CARE

CARE TO HOST SLOW FOOD POTLUCK AND TRANSITION TOWN MOVEMENT

Camano Action for a Rural Environment (C.A.R.E.)’s monthly meeting
will be held Thursday, Nov 18, 2010 at the Camano Community Center,
141 East Camano Drive. The meeting will begin with a Slow Food Potluck
at 6pm, followed by program at 7pm.

The program will focus on positive responses to climate change, and
planning beyond reliance on petroleum, as speakers describe the
“Transition Town” and “Slow Food” Movements.

 Jackie Minchew of Transition Port Gardner and Green Everett will share
with us what a Transition movement is and how we could use it to
promote our vision of maintaining our rural community.  Whidbey
projects include an Island Food Asset mapping project and a local
exchange trading system.

Transition Town movement started in 2007 in the United Kingdom when
several small towns began to realize they needed to drastically change
their way of living during the decline of oil reserves and due to
climate change impacts on food and resource availability. They
realized they would have to do this themselves. The movement quickly
spread worldwide and there are now 47 official Transition towns in the
United States.

The Slow Food Movement is a global, grassroots movement with over
100,000 members in 153 countries, linking the pleasure of good food
with a commitment to community and the environment. Slow Food was
founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the
disappearance of local food traditions, and people’s dwindling
interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how it tastes,
as well as how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Pam Shoberg, master gardener and President of Slow Food Port Susan and
Jon Stevens of Open Gate Farm will share with us what their newly
launched organization is doing in our greater
community.

More information here:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
www.green-everett.org
http://www.slowfoodskagit.org/
http://www.slowfoodportsusan.org/