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I graduated from New College of California in Santa Rosa in 2001 and went to grad school at New College of California in San Francisco. I got a Permaculture Design Certificate from the first Earth Activist Training in the NW Sonoma County forest taught by Penny Livingston-Stark and Starhawk. After grad school, I came back to Texas, the biggest CO2 polluter in the country by so much that if Texas were a country it would be the 6th worst CO2 polluter in the world. It's also a Deep Red state, #49 in school funding in the US, just ahead of Mississippi. No state-supported college teaches ecology unless you're a Biology major. Then you get biological ecology, ecology neutered by left-over modern reductionism. Texas is the front lines of the fight to reclaim the future. I organized Transition in Austin once but the Libertarians tried to get control of it and attend to the elements of the system rather than the system itself, so I organized the current Hub group and we have six Transition Towns coming along. Recently, we held our first Training for Transition, T4T, and had twenty six enrolled until eight flaked right at the last. Eighteen showed up, and we had a wonderful time of it. Transition Austin is a different being now. I think we're really on the path now. Our trainers, Zaida Amaral and David Johnson, came from Transition US. They helped us over a hump in our development. I was amazed at how good they were. We're going to have another T4T then have a Training for Trainers and train the trainers who will train most Texans in Transition. It could not happen without Transition US. I'm grateful for them. They've been supportive all the way, and get moreso all the time, as they add ways to help to the website.

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