Ron Rancourt's Groups
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Transition Ottawa Meet Up
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Canadian Biodiversity In…
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Ron Rancourt's Discussions
Ottawa Community Currency Network - meeting reminder
Started Feb 28
Bristol Pound is launched - can this be done in Ottawa?
Started Oct 18, 2012
Join the OCCN group!
Started Feb 27, 2012
Ron Rancourt's Page
About Me
It's going to be a fun ride, so jump on board!
Profile Information
- What attracted you to become a member?
- I want to be kept informed of what people are doing (actions) to build resilience in their lives against the real threats of Peak Oil and economic turmoil. Ottawa is a big city and while I don't think it can transition as a whole, I believe individual neighborhoods can.
- If you are from the Ottawa area, in what neighbourhood area do you live (i.e. Nepean, Centre Town, Glebe, Vanier, etc.)
- Chelsea
- 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, Alternative vehicles, Solar/wind energy, Community building, Public transport, Joyous simple living, Other
- What are your skills (Professional and amateur)?
- Internet Development, IT, drumming, building with wood, bike building, coordinating and planning events.
- How would you like to see Ottawa look and feel in the future?
- Less cars, slower pace, social neighborhoods, a council that facilitates acceptance of sustainable living.
- What part would you like to contribute to this?
- General participation.
- If you could create your ideal participation with Transition Ottawa, what would it be?
- Discussion and posting on the website of relevant topics.
Ron Rancourt's Blog
Peak Oil fact of life: Canada losing big $ in oil
Continue“Despite being an important crude oil producer, Canada still has to import more than 40 per cent of the oil it consumes,” said Mr. St-Arnaud, citing a pipeline network that moves crude from the West to the U.S. Midwest, but not to eastern Canada.
“Most of the imported oil comes from OPEC countries or the North Sea, which is priced using the Brent benchmark,” the analyst said in his report, titled “When oil turns against you.”
“Hence, each time the spread between WCS…
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:30am
Free Permaculture eBook
You have to register but no pmt info is required to download the 380+ page "Facilitator's Handbook for Permaculture". 20+ other related free eBooks as well - http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/ebooks/free-ebooks.html
Ron
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:24pm
OCCN and recent TTO meetup
Just wanted to shoutout to Ron and Corrie a note of thanks for putting on a good meetup July 24 (second last Tues of each month). I thought the discussion was interesting and productive. We heard some history of Transition Ottawa, how it has evolved and we discussed what the role of Transition Ottawa should be in the future.
I was greatful to three attendees for generous donations to help OCCN pay for website hosting and registration costs. This was the kickoff of our…
ContinuePosted on August 5, 2012 at 9:47pm
OCCN Demo website
See the OCCN forum post:
http://transitionottawa.ning.com/group/occn/forum/topics/demo-website-and-related-links
Join the group if you're at all interested!
http://transitionottawa.ning.com/group/occn
Thanks!
Ron
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:36pm
Local currency in Germany started as a school project
We need this in the National Capital.
"We need to re-democratise the monetary system, to have a set of alternatives for issuing credit outside the banking oligarchy. Alternative currencies can play a vital role in that – particularly in conjunction with the exciting developments in ICT [information and communication technologies] which enable consumers and producers to exchange with each other across a larger area and based upon values other than globalisation and economies of…
ContinuePosted on January 13, 2012 at 10:13pm
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We would be happy to meet with you over a coffee some evening if you like. Let me know what works best for you. Otherwise I could talk to you at the next group meeting if you prefer.
Regards,
Peter Schonherr