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NZ Survey - Elected Local Councillors Ill-informed on Peak Oil

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 24 January 2011 - 9:30am | updated 24 Jan 2011 | Blog entry

Becky Wardell at the University of Canterbury has surveyed technical transport staff and elected officials in three representative local councils in New Zealand – (rural, a provincial city and Auckland) to determine what influences them and what their attitudes are to peak oil.

She found that the majority of elected officials had either minor or no concerns about peak oil and only 27% had a major level of concern about peak oil. The level of concern about peak oil amongst technical transport staff was much higher than elected officials, with 65% of them considering peak oil to be of major concern. » Read more

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Local Government ‘ALERT’ from the MAV Transition Community Working Group

Submitted by James Samuel on 23 December 2009 - 10:35am | updated 23 Dec 2009 | Blog entry

From Victoria, Australia...

This ALERT is predicated on four factors:

  1. The human race is facing its greatest challenge.
  2. Individual communities need to collaborate to address the challenge and transition to a reduced-carbon, sustainable future. The time to act is now.
  3. Local government needs to support communities in planning to address this challenge. Local government is likely to bear a significant proportion of the brunt of climate change, peak oil and other related impacts, and the sector is most effective when it collaborates to address major challenges.
  4. The Transition Community approach is an empowering local response to crisis situations and offers the hope of achieving an improved local economy and improved social cohesion.

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Video of Waiheke's protest against losing its recyclables

Submitted by James Samuel on 2 July 2009 - 5:52pm | updated 02 Jul 2009 | Local news

July 1st Action - Waiheke from Scott Ewing on Vimeo.

For more information, visit www.waihekedoesitbetter.org.nz

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A Call To Action

Submitted by Millie Pickle on 8 June 2009 - 10:51am | updated 08 Jun 2009 | Local news
Zero Waste by 2015? Yeah Right

To everyone involved in Transition Town initiatives-  Waiheke's loss is everyone's loss. Now is the time to show the strength of the Transition Town community. » Read more

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A Video message to Auckland Councillors

Submitted by James Samuel on 4 May 2009 - 11:45pm | updated 06 May 2009 | Blog entry

Keep Your Wheelie Bins In Auckland Central from Scott Ewing on Vimeo.

I love this community! » Read more

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A form of tangible support for the Atamai Village project

Submitted by James Samuel on 9 December 2008 - 4:26pm | updated 09 Dec 2008 | Story

I have just sent in to the Tasman District Council, a submission and letter of support for The Atamai Village project which Jack and Joanna Santa Barbara from the Motueka Transition Town have been busy at work on. At a time when examples of resilient living are needed, here is a project which represents a great opportunity to the people in the Tasman District, and to all New Zealanders seeking to find ways to live in right relationship with the natural systems that sustain us.

Jacques and Joni working to complete a vegetable garden

If you read on you will find a simple step by step process that makes it easy for you to support this valuable project. It is possible that a little time spent on this will help set some precedent for the kinds of intelligent development that is needed if we are to create long term resilient communities. If the Atamai vilage project receives support and their integrated design is permitted to proceed it could help to establish a way forward for other communities wishing to design for themselves a dignified way of living in a lower energy future.

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