Amber Westfall's Discussions
Swap shops and skills exchange
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Tricia Enns Dec 13, 2012.
Amber Westfall's Events
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Wild Edible Plant Walk
June 19, 2013 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – The Ottawa Locks
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Wild Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk
June 22, 2013 from 2pm to 4pm – Kilborn Allotment Gardens
Amber Westfall's Page
Profile Information
- What attracted you to become a member?
- Community resiliency!
- If you are from the Ottawa area, in what neighbourhood area do you live (i.e. Nepean, Centre Town, Glebe, Vanier, etc.)
- Alta Vista- Applewood Acres
- Would you like to be part of a transition initiative in your neighbourhood?
- Yes
- What issues are you interested in (Check as many as apply)?
- Home energy power down, Local food resilience, Community building, Joyous simple living, Other
- What are your skills (Professional and amateur)?
- Administrative, office manage-y type stuff like scheduling, meetings, bookkeeping etc
Yoga instructress
Caregiver
Pot lucker
Fermenter, canner, solar cooker
Beginner gardener, wild forager, herbwyfe
Crocheter, mender
Blogger
- How would you like to see Ottawa look and feel in the future?
- Exactly the way it is, minus the excessive fossil fuel dependence and the disconnection between others that results.
- What part would you like to contribute to this?
- Mad skillz sharing, community building, friendship
- If you could create your ideal participation with Transition Ottawa, what would it be?
- The above.
Amber Westfall's Blog
Stoneleigh speaks at the Transition Network Conference 2010
"Peak Oil and the collapse of global Ponzi finance are a “perfect storm” of converging phenomena that threaten to sink our age of prosperity
through wealth destruction, social discontent, and global conflict.
Nicole will describe how our current financial system is an
unsustainable credit bubble grounded in “Ponzi dynamics,” or the logic
of the pyramid scheme. She warns that most people are… Continue
Posted on June 14, 2010 at 6:16pm — 2 Comments
I Heart Hank and Vera Jones.
If you live in the Ottawa area you may have heard of Hank and Vera Jones. They were in the news last summer. The couple have turned most of their half acre yard around their Constance Bay home into a pollinator garden.
Where Hank and Vera see a beautiful and natural habitat, filled with native flowers and… Continue
Posted on May 18, 2010 at 1:59pm
Online consultation on "Product of Canada" and "Made in Canada" labelling requirement
Check this out.
"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is now holding an online consumer consultation on "Product of Canada" and "Made in Canada" labeling requirements. The consultation will be available until May 16, 2010.
The consultation will be looking at specific guideline details, including exemptions for certain ingredients that are difficult to find in Canada, such as sugar. To… Continue
Posted on May 6, 2010 at 12:20pm
The Personal vs the Political- Why Sharon Astyk isn't Bright Green and Alex Steffen Thinks We Should Be Faster, Bigger and More Complex
Both are well written, thought provoking and provide two very different approaches to resiliency and sustainability.
They are well worth the read!
You can find Alex's article here.… Continue
Posted on April 13, 2010 at 5:30pm — 5 Comments
Pantry Love
I'm ridiculously happy about the whole thing and after I had filled and artfully arranged the shelves the other night, I spent a long time just sitting and looking at this new edition to my… Continue
Posted on April 7, 2010 at 12:15pm — 2 Comments
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Great to meet you yesterday at the awakening the dreamer symposium , real interested in the repair center you talked about as you see on my profile i'm Mr fix it i'm a technician by trade and would love to give back what i know .
Thanks, I will definitely look at the link. And maybe I will contact a couple of organization, such as the David Suzuki Foundation, to see if there are already any initiatives afoot around standard size and shape reusable containers. If I find out anything, I will let you know.
Steve