{"id":55962,"date":"2020-12-11T18:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55962"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T23:29:57","slug":"transitioning-our-money-to-invest-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55962","title":{"rendered":"Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transitionus.org\/transitioning-our-money-to-invest-local\/\">Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>People often ask, \u201cSo what do Transition Town groups do?\u201d One answer to that question would be, \u201cWe take good ideas, bring them home, and make them real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Pat Thompson and Sherm Eagles did when they attended Jay Tompt\u2019s REconomy workshop at the Transition US National Gathering in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHearing that such a thing exists as the REconomy Centre, that was an eye opener. Wow! Someone is doing this thing and maybe we can do something like it,\u201d said Pat. \u201cI was also inspired by the people who attended the workshop. There was a woman from Brooklyn who owns a building that serves as a community center and helps percolate programs to start things the community needs. There were people doing online crowdsourcing to fund Transition-related things. There was local currency. All these different angles from different parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first thought was that our Transition group \u2013 Transition Town\u2013All St. Anthony Park (Transition ASAP) \u2013 could set up something like the Community of Dragons, community-supported entrepreneurship, that they have in Totnes. But we\u2019re in a really big market here in the Twin Cities, and some things like that already exist. So instead, our group set up Transition Your Money (TYM).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sherm and Pat now convene a monthly group that talks about ways people can get their money out of Wall Street and bring it back into the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur neighborhood is a pocket of fairly well off people \u2013 not all, but some \u2013 and also people with a strong social conscience,\u201d Pat said. \u201cThey\u2019re concerned about climate change and they want to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local People often ask, \u201cSo what do Transition Town groups do?\u201d One answer to that question would be, \u201cWe take good ideas, bring them home, and make them real.\u201d That\u2019s what Pat Thompson and Sherm Eagles did when they attended Jay Tompt\u2019s REconomy workshop at the Transition US National Gathering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30703,536,5253,8523,19046],"class_list":["post-55962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-leslie-mackenzie","tag-money","tag-reconomy","tag-transition-towns","tag-transition-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55963,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55962\/revisions\/55963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}