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Food Forest Road Trip with family

James Samuel — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:22:55 +0000

School holidays and an invitation to visit Dean Williamson in Fielding to explore his idea for 10 acre food forests up and down the country, was enough to start the road trip planning.

I let a few people know we were heading South, and would love to visit some existing food forests and were happy to talk with people along the way, and an agenda quickly emerged.

We’re leaving Waiheke today (Jul 13th) and will be home on the 24th.

Maybe we’ll meet up at one of these events…

Food Forest Webinar – Nr.1 – Introduction

James Samuel — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 11:03:34 +0000

From a simple impulse to connect a few people in a conversation, and share some stories of progress in the food forest space in Aotearoa (New Zealand), this webinar idea gained traction rather faster than I expected.

The inaugural Food Forest webinar – from Aotearoa

When I made a post on Facebook page to say there were 35 people signed up for the Webinar, it was at about 7 days to go. To date, there have been 75 people, from all up and down the country who have signed up. Not bad for two weeks lead time.

Even John Valenzuela registered to attend. John is the horticulturist, consultant and educator from Marin County California, best known for his work with rare fruit, home gardening, trees, traditional agriculture, plant propagation, and ethnobotany – I’m hoping we can get him back to present one day. By the time it arrived I had sent notifications to 70 people.

On the day, 43 attendees logged in and saw and heard the presentations from Finn MacKesy, Jon Foote and myself (or parts of them). There were some technical issues, for example some people couldn’t get in if they arrived late. I found out that I had overlooked the limit of attendees for the subscription level I had paid for (more on that later). My apologies. But overall it went quite well - as you'll see from the recording.

VIDEO: The Power of Just Doing Stuff

James Samuel — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:49:16 +0000

Richard Heinberg Auckland Presentation on YouTube

chris.olson — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:01:33 +0000

Hi Everyone,

Richard Heinberg's Auckland presentation from 30th Sept 2012 has been edited by Deep Green Productions and is on Youtube to watch. Please pass the link on for others that may be interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6jxgQ8cQeg

In Transition 2.0 - Trailer

James Samuel — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:51:26 +0000

If this trailer is indicative of the film, it looks to be an inspiring one!

What a delight to see so many images from Lyttelton woven through it.

Video: Get it Done - Mic Check at Durban Climate Change conference

James Samuel — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:48:09 +0000

Susan Krumdieck addresses parliament in Belgium on Transition Planning for Cities and Personal Transport

Susan Krumdieck — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:19:50 +0000

Transition Engineering researcher, Dr. Susan Krumdieck from University of Canterbury, has presented a lecture on planning for Peak Oil to the Walloon Parliament in Belgium.

The Kai Rakau Project

James Samuel — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:02:53 +0000

The Kai Rakau Project, currently being developed by Emma Williamson and Savannah Carter-Green, is a community based project with view to create a "Mother Orchard" of 3000 fruiting trees and native plantings, in Sanders Reserve, Paremoremo, Auckland New Zealand.

Lyttelton - the Spirit lives on

James Samuel — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:08:38 +0000

Signs of Change Conference on YouTube

James Samuel — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:33:37 +0000

You may want to bookmark this one for some holiday viewing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/signsofchangeconf#g/u

Rally 4 Sanity

James Samuel — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:58:20 +0000

Kim spotted it this morning, and before the day was out the first videos were up on YouTube. John Stewart had this (and more) to say...

Ooooby Box, not just unveiled, but delivered

James Samuel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:46:54 +0000

Yesterday was momentous. If you have been following Ooooby news, you'll know that a number of people have been beavering away on this one for the last three months. Well yesterday we delivered, and it was Fun! (3.5 min video)

September round up of what's happening in Transition

James Samuel — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:08:43 +0000

It’s October already, so it’s time to share September’s Transition activities from across the world... http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/2010-10-04/september-round-whats-h...

NZ features, along with most other countries in the world. Reading this gives one a sense of the scale and growth of the Transition Towns movement - this is just one months news!

Read on...

The world's largest movement

James Samuel — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:10:52 +0000

Growth in grass roots projects focused on improving social or environmental well-being, is some kind of phenomenon. Paul Hawken, in his video presentation at Bioneers in April 2007, referred to the hundreds-of-thousands of organizations that address social and environmental justice, as "the worlds largest movement."

In New Zealand I've been able to witness up close, the tremendous growth of Transition Towns, a decentralised relocalisation response to peak oil and climate change. From three early initiatives in 2007, Transition Towns is now represented in over 50 towns across the country. News from the Transition Towns movement is being communicated through TV, film, radio, the written word and word-of-mouth. It is one of the many truly grass-roots responses, to the changing times we live in.

Awhi Farm

James Samuel — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:01:12 +0000

I took a camper van last week and went first to Opotiki visiting Kazel Cass, then down to Turangi to visit Bryan Innes and Jo Pearsal, conveners and organisers of all the past Eco Show events in NZ. Bryan and Jo took me out to Awhi Farm, the site of an old Ministry of Works depot on the highway in Turangi, where they are helping Lisa establish a permanent Eco Show and a NZ version of a Centre for Appropriate Technology.

I took a lot of video on my android mobile phone, then edited them before posting to YouTube.

The first one is about food, and the second one focuses on the buildings they are putting up.