peakmoment's video: Visit McCaskill Street - Forging Community Through Resource Sharing

It all started with neighbors meeting to save money and share information around energy, water, food and more. It has grown into shared projects, shared tools and deepened friendships. Residents joined brushes to paint a wall mural with unique neighborhood themes, spearheaded by artist Lori Garcia-Meredith. "Eggnabler" Janet Riddell hatched a Chicken Coop Co-op to encourage others to raise chickens, and they now host an annual "Tour de Coop." Patti Parkhouse and friends planted a community orchard and several veggie beds on the boulevard (street-side city-owned land). After meeting with an energy auditor, several families purchased heat pumps to save on heating costs (shown by Jack Meredith and Warren Walsh). And that's just the beginning. Here's a list of more results: http://transitionvictoria.ca/index.php/groups-projects/transition-streets Episode 297. Transition McCaskill Street started as a pilot project of Transition Victoria and followed Transition Streets guidelines. Transition Streets are happening in the US, Canada, the UK and elsewhere. Also watch Building Community from Your Front Porch (episode 288) with Transition Victoria founder Michelle Colussi http://peakmoment.tv/videos/building-community-from-your-front-porch-288 ----- Thanks for being in the Peak Moment viewer community! Subscribe to peakmoment channel on YouTube for more great shows on grass roots pioneers forging a post-growth culture. Subscribe to email news or donate at http://www.peakmoment.tv. Visit Peak Moment on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peak-Moment-TV/113511867700 GooglePlus: https://plus.google.com/+peakmoment/posts Janaia on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/janaia.donaldson Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeakMomentTV (handle: @peakmomenttv) iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/peak-moment-tv/id413896747 UK link: http://www.transitionstreets.org.uk/ US link: http://www.transitionus.org/transitionstreets and http://transitionstreets.org/