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Point Chev Games Night - Round #4
Submitted by Kivvi on 9 September 2015 - 4:42pm | updated 29 Sep 2015 | Local newsPoint Chev Games Night - Round #3
Submitted by Kivvi on 9 September 2015 - 12:30pm | updated 09 Sep 2015 | Local news
Swap Five Event
Submitted by Kivvi on 8 September 2015 - 10:07pm | updated 14 Sep 2015 | Local newsWhat a great success for our Swap Five event! We had lots of people contributing pre-loved items and it almost felt like Christmas when discovering hidden gems, still fashionable or at least wearable art clothing and other cool gadgets in the electronics department. All accompanied by free (Koha) yummy food and lots of excitement - this one calls for a repeat for sure!
Orewa Transition Town - September 10th
Submitted by gsmith on 5 September 2015 - 10:20am | updated 05 Sep 2015 | EventThursday 10th September
"Clean Disruption: Why Conventional Energy and Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030"
In 1907, New York, like most large cities, was over 90% dependent on horses for transportation. A little over a decade later, in 1920, more than 90% of New York's transport was powered by internal combustion engines, and the horse powered transport was soon a historic novelty. » Read more
Mt Victoria September meeting - 'The Climate Blueprint' film
Submitted by frank cook on 30 August 2015 - 12:23am | EventTuesday 8th September at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'The Climate Blueprint' film. We will view the 52 minute documentary "The Climate Blueprint" which is the first doucmentary to explore the history of the climate change summits, beginning with Kyoto in 1997. This is against the background of the coming Paris Convention (COP21) in December of this year. At Paris the hope is for a new global agreement against global warming, the Paris Protocol. All welcome to come and see this interesting story.
For more information contact Frank Cook, 027 6496508
Location / Venue:
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington
Ooooby is Crowdfunding
Submitted by James Samuel on 15 August 2015 - 3:00pm | updated 15 Aug 2015 | Blog entryOoooby’s mission is to make local food convenient, affordable and fair everywhere. To do this it has developed a lean-efficient distribution model, that can scale by being replicated to serve the local food needs of any modest sized population. This social enterprise aligns well with the Transition Towns philosophy of moving from oil dependence to local resilience, and is a commons based business, which means that suppliers, customers and crew all share in its success.
Mt Victoria August meeting - 'Last Call' film
Submitted by frank cook on 7 August 2015 - 9:26am | updated 07 Aug 2015 | EventTuesday 11th August at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St. 'Last Call' film. We will view the documentary film “Last Call”. This 90 minute 2013 documentary revisits the ideas of the Club of Rome (Limits to Growth) by interviewing its surviving members and includes footage from the period when the group’s work was first released. The documentary, like “The Limits to Growth” forty years earlier, raises questions about sustainable growth and consumerism that are even more urgent than they were in the 1970s. » Read more
Location / Venue:
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington
Living the Good life. 30 August 2015 A day looking at living sustainably off a lifestyle block - what is really involved?
Submitted by Sheryn Clothier on 17 July 2015 - 5:27pm | EventLook at an established lifestyle block in Tirau. Learn about keeping a house cow, beef cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. See how an orchard can be landscaped to be attractive, productive and produce nutrient-dense food with minimal input. Discuss system for harvesting, preserving and growing food.
See www.lals.nz for full details
Location / Venue:
Tirau, South Wiakato
Mt Victoria July meeting - 'Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change' film
Submitted by frank cook on 1 July 2015 - 9:40am | updated 01 Jul 2015 | Event
Tuesday 14th July at 7.30pm, at New Crossways, Roxburgh St.
'Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change' film. We will view the 2010 documentary film Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change. » Read more
Location / Venue:
Crossways Community Centre, 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria, Wellington
What will it take to catalyse and inspire Aotearoa NZ becominug a Transition Country? Where does Kaitiakitanga fit in?
Submitted by Christopher Le ... on 23 June 2015 - 7:06am | Blog entryModern histories tell us that Aotearoa New Zealand was the last landmass to be settled by humans. Will it be the first that humans have to evacuate given the pollution to its rivers, lakes, and land ? Or will it be the first to chart a new way forward, drawing on the best of the modern world and its indigenous traditions?

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