CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Transition Lake County will host a talk on local resilience on Wednesday, Dec. 1.

The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the talk starting at 7 p.m. at Clearlake City Hall, located at 14050 Olympic Drive.

The talk will be entitled, “Building Local Resilience: an Intro to the Transition Model,” featuring Transition US trainer and Transition Sebastopol founding member Scott McKeown,.

The event will consist of a 60-minute presentation on the basics of the Transition model, plus a question and answer with the audience.

The discussion will introduce the audience to the challenges society faces – from peak oil and climate change, to the unstable global economy – and also some of the amazing organic solutions that are available as communities relocalize lives and economies, and build inner and outer resilience.

There will also be plenty of information about TLC and how to get involved, as well as a chance to sign up for TLC’s upcoming Training 4 Transition workshop the first weekend in December.

Scott McKeown, a T4T instructor and the presenter at the Wednesday evening talk, is the initiator and current chairperson of Transition Sebastopol – the eighth official Transition Town in the US – as well as a trainer, instructional designer and event producer who has worked over seven years delivering training courses in corporate environments including for Advanced Fibre Communications and the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

McKeown has been a community organizer for more than 30 years, a marketing director of three high tech companies, and from 2003 to 2007 was the executive director of the 30,000-person attended Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa.

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