Transition Denver

• Possibility vs. What is
• Change
• Balance
• Tolerance
• Communication
• Love
• Acknowledgement
• Community
• Truth
• Service
• Initiative
• Compassion
• One for all and all for One
• Outer Respect
• Inner peace
• Inner purpose
• Connectedness
• Courage
• Curiosity
• Wise use of land vs. waste
• Diversity
• Egalitarian society; equal access to education; free time; political power
• Respect
• Less globalization; localization, local foods bartering, trade
• Love and service
• Ease of communication - deep, meaningful, honest
• Artistic expression
• Safety, no violence
• Loved for themselves
• Self-sufficiency - food and energy
• Willingness to sacrifice
• Speaking from and listening from the heart
• Pride
• Responsibility
• Local clinic, country doctor - can pay with eggs or milk if you don't have money
• Open, truthful discussions; open-minded, not reactionary
• Going deeper
• Shared problem-solving
• People lead from their heart

• Faith
• Change
• Belief
• Learning
• Organizing & sharing information
• Serving others
• Social justice
• Community & involvement
• Peace, love and justice
• Listening to our oneness
• Branching out
• Coalitions
• Common good
• Compassion/respect
• Action
• All outcomes are divine outcomes
• Namaste
• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Power - absence of fear, presence of love at school
• Laughter, music at school
• Porches, dirt roads, community kitchen
• Journaling, art, poetry
• Sacred place to meditate
• Open doors
• Sharing children - trust enables this
• Expand environment, inclusiveness
• Warmth
• Interested in a broader group of people
• Talking with each person met; talking out on front porches instead of in back yard behind fences
• Enough time for social interaction
• Access to solitude sometimes
• TRUST
• Everyone is loved, shared concern
• Natural pace of community - not harried
• Time - SLOW, breathing, walking, natural rhythms
• Power is not money and corporations
• Power
• Equal distribution of wealth
• People who value humanity, social justice, human rights - are the teachers
• We help each other - beautiful
• Getting rid of isolation
• All needs - groceries, laundry, cleaners, etc. - integrated so don't spend all our time running around on errands
• Don't wake up to an alarm
• Sleep when it's dark
• Latino family7 - truly accepted in society, not fearful of discrimination; see people for who they are, not dehumanized
• Way to make decisions
• Circle; circle; evolving decisions vs. hierarchy
• Trees; lots of fruit trees

• Community libraries open later
• Lighter traffic
• More people in streets
• Kids - structure, discipline, fun
• Outdoor education
• Meditation/higher conscious education
• Slower pace of life that would accommodate differently-abled people
• Open space
• Mercury Café
• Diverse activities in central space
• Extended families - share childrearing
• Animals in parks (goats)
• Vegetable gardens
• Helping/caring for each other
• Discussion in groups
• Curbside gardens
• Workshop: parenting permaculture
• Schools small & local
• Big yards
• Bicycle & adult tricycles
• Hand rails
• City Park - central meeting space
• Kids running streets
• Self-healing
• Children: #1 social focus, surprising, blooming flowers
• Blended/diverse families
• adoption
• neighborhood rec centers
• People building/organizing around shelter/food/education/energy
• Diverse community
• Historical community
• Communication that digs in and looks at different angles
• Living in a way that allows us to maintain traditions
• Live in a way that accommodates you and me
• Correct grammar
• Seniors honored & participating
• Teaching kids
• Not "traditional" work
• Understanding history, i.e. religious
• Respect by understanding of cultural traditions
• Creating web through understandting
• Transportation - solar, etc.
• No private ownership
• Neighborhood greenhouses
• No covenants against laundry lines
• Different suburbia
• Dancing around fires
• Places for solitude and mediation
• Understanding of how our actions have an impact
• Councils wehre people can be heard
• Peace, love, justice
• Neighbors know each other
• Everyone voting
• Water is key part of gathering space
• Access to food, clothing, etc. - if all there, how would you spend time?
• Rotating potlucks
• People making music
• Less impact, living more like ancestors, understanding the land
• Smells clean, no smog
• No political parties
• Clothing = organic; hemp; stylish
• Councils where all heard - a different kind of council
• Whole community knows you and it's safe to approach them
• Consensus in resolving conflicts
• Sense of trust in approaching each other to provide counsel and wisdom
• Education based on cooperation, not competition
• People do what they love
• Creating a venue for people to learn from & teach each other
• Includes places to continue to grown & experience
• All community members vital
• Mentorship
• Council for conflict transformation
• Establish safe communication/space
• Responsibility for actions
• Council = wise, just, fair
• Leadership = rotating facilitators
• Leadership based on trust, communication, love, courage
• Education/life experience prepares everybody for above
• Education teaching life, whole experience; learning connected together
• Opportunity to practice education and communication, leadership
• Cycles within cycles
• Young people are powerful
• Community space to reflect out to media to then reflect back to community

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• Community health centers have range of traditional & alternative
• Health insurance is used for emergencies
• Bartering for goods and services
• People on US/Mexico dismantling wall
• Whole Foods goes out of business
• Continual health services for long-care/long-term need, preventative health care
• University citizenship
• News via community conversations & localized
• News on good things people do
• Basic healthcare free
• News – paper money collected and recycled into new items, all had what’s needed
• USA solving problems
• Solving problems abroad b/c all our problems solved
• Peace, love and justice
• Eradication of national and tribal (all) warfare
• Education on how health & wellness works (self-healing)
• Nutrition as healthcare plan
• No savings because there is no debt
• News = community service, non profit paycheck for dedicated
• Local communities connected
• Global councils — supporting smaller communities
• National not relevant, national boundaries irrelevant, non-existent
• Global community — hearing everyone
• Sister cities
• National boundaries unnecessary
• Welcoming/celebrating immigrants and visitors; practicing diversity — learning from other cultures and trying their foods, practicing their cultures
• End to military-industrial complex; bases converted to educational facilities; money used instead for education, teaching people to feed themselves, support people in achieving their dreams
• Two-way consulting with other countries; collaboration
• End of American imperialism
• Every child living in a safe, secure home
• End of idea that we have all the answers — that we need to teach others
• Welcome person meeting immigrants, asking what are their skills, interests; helping them find their place and role in community
• Confession – repentance, forgiveness with rest of world; restoration
• Close School of the Americas — the world would weep!
• No more intelligence agencies; no more secret organizations; transparency
• No monetary system; worth weighed in service
• Informal education system
• Carbon neutral