Transition Champaign County (Illinois)
Moving Toward a Sustainable, Locally Resilient & Equitable Champaign County
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Joan Cole
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- Champaign, IL
- United States
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46 members
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Food
62 members
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Formal & informal education, outreach and community building for a sustainable future in Champaign County.
A bunch of players in Mind Body Medicine have gotten together to advocate for restructuring health care at a deeper level than just adjusting funding mechanisms. This is a document of recommendations being pushed for in Washington.
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- Your answers to the following questions will become part of your public member profile. You can change your answers to these questions at any time via "Settings." If you don't want to answer these now, you can put a single character in each answer box (such as "x") to register. If you do this, please come back later to complete the answers. Having members share their experiences, skills and interests is an important part of bulding our Transition Champaign County community.
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- Please describe you interests and concerns related to the sustainability of Champaign County.
- I am currently especially interested in low-tech public health and the place of alternative healing in that. Other aspects (sanitation, clean water, food security) are important components. I am also interested in things like walkable/bikeable community, local currency, permaculture, etc. My perspective is that of a middle-aged mother of a child in elementary school.
- What experiences, knowledge and skills do you bring to Transition Champaign County?
- I am currently a massage therapist with a focus on pain release and preventive wellness. I spent several years as a stay at home mother when my son was younger. Prior to parenthood I had a career in information technology, and have a degree in accounting. I spent about 20 years involved on and off in historical recreation as a hobby. Some of the practical skills I have worked on over the years include food preparation, gardening, and clothing construction.
- What role and activities are you interested in to help Champaign County transition toward a sustainable future?
- I don't know what roles and activities are available or contemplated. I'm sure something will be a good fit.
- What other environmental or sustainability-related groups, organizations or institutions do you belong to or work for (please consider inviting your co-members to join us, too!)?
- SpiralScouts (an alternative co-ed scouting group)
I have in the past been a member of Prairie Greens, PCSA and HOUSE
- Please share any favorite relevant books, websites, blogs, RSS feeds, etc. (optional)
- John Michael Greer - The Long Descent
Dimitry Orlov - Reinventing Collapse
- Please provide your personal website or blog if you have one (optional).
- www.joancolemassage.com, www.advancenet.net/~jscole/sahm.htm, http://lelandra.gaia.com/
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Welcome to Transition Champaign County!
It looks like your experiences and an interests will be very useful for TCC.
I also see that you have already joined a few groups--great!
I look forward to working with you to help move Champaign County toward sustainability and local resilience.
Best,
Gary