Voices of Transition presents innovative, inspirational – and concrete – solutions to the food security challenges we humans are increasingly facing.  It is a fully independent, 65 minute-long documentary that examines the danger posed to agricultural production by energy and resource scarcity. It depicts organic agricultural alternatives in France, the Transition Towns movement, and urbanized food production […]

This workshop focuses on a unique and innovative system never before offered in any public presentation. The system has brilliant features making it particularly useful in cold (or any) climate while being elegantly simplified. It is the result of 55 years of experience by a retired physics professor and has been perfected in a series […]

  Most of us have heard of the 100-Mile Diet - where someone focuses their diet on only food produced within 100 miles of where they live.  In these times of increasing food costs and decreasing food quality, more and more people are recognizing the benefits of making their home a productive asset which supplies […]

Fifth annual Vision Workshop and Birthday Party, Sunday, June 19th from 1:00 to 4:00pm at the Acadian Maple Products meeting room. For this year's workshop, we will be discussing the potential for a SMB Community Hub.  Our guest speaker and co-facilitator will be Laurie Cook, Director of the United Way Hubs Project (see: http://hubsproject.wix.com/unitedway).  Laurie coordinates […]

  We live in uncertain times. Who knows when the world as we know it well might take a dramatic shift.  Without electricity how long can you and your family keep securely in terms of food, heat, and everything? What happens if the petrochemicals run out?  Those old traditional skills our grandparents and their grandparents […]

The need for compassion in our personal, organizational and societal lives is increasingly evident. In the past several years training programs, based in ancient wisdom and modern science, have been developed that helps bring forth the compassion inherent in all human beings. “Imagine the profound transformation in society if our interactions with one another in […]