Wellington

LETS TALK RUBBISH ABOUT WASTE!
...How to REDUCE, RE-USE and RE-CYCLE!

Donna Sherlock, Waste Awareness Officer & Project coordinator for Organisational Sustainability, Wellington City Council will talk about how to get wasted and benefit your household!

Local residents will fill us in on:

* Reduse your household waste to no RUBBISH BAGS! How? Join us... » Read more

For a map see: http://www.wises.co.nz/l/Wellington/Island+Bay/Mersey+Street/#c/2r7cx/6wqpp/0/

Regular buses going to The Parade, Island (no. 1 bus) - get off opposite the Empire Cinema on the Parade and turn right up Mersey Street at the Hy Grade Dairy.  Walk one block to the church and school hall is at the bottom on the spire.  From town via the Melrose area, take the no. 22 or 23 to Island Bay, which goes right past the church. » Read more

James Samuel will be giving a presentation on what all the other TT groups around the country are up to and how we can learn from them.

After this a World Cafe will be held (you can check out http://www.theworldcafe.com/ if you want to know about those processes, or you can just turn up and be pleasantly surprised).

7 ~ 9.30pm at the Centre for Global Action (2nd story James Smith building on the corner of Cuba St and Manners Mall).

7 ~ 8pm James "National Trends and Lessons Learned"

8 ~ 8:15 Question time » Read more

Draft agenda

Catch-up

James Samuel is coming

Donations

The role of our group in the wider community?

Stay Warm & Save Dollars

An evening of informative, practical presentations and lively debate with;

• Joseph Mayhew (Renewable Energy Advisor - EECA) on local options for renewable energy.

• Sarah Free (Energy Advisor, Sustainability Trust) on ways we can save energy and reduce our power bills.

Date: Weds 20 August 2008 from 7.00 – 9.00pm

Venue: Brooklyn Community Centre, 18 Harrison Street

Refreshments Provided - Gold Coin Koha » Read more

Thanks to our leaflet drop around Brooklyn—around 1,500 houses, and the topic of permaculture we attracted our best audience yet, around 60 people of all ages. Majority of people from Brooklyn but we had some from other areas too. 6 people registered through the website.

Steering group: present—Barbara, Belinda, Dawn, Tom; apologies—none; absent—Edwina; minutes—Tom. » Read more

Pathways to Sustainability - What Matters Most to New Zealanders

A free workshop, Pathways to Sustainability, What Matters Most to
NZers", sponsored by Statistics New Zealand and Anew NZ, is being
held in Auckland on the 29th of August and Wellington on the 9th of
September. Information on it is attached with this email. » Read more

While this isn't a Transition Towns event, it is something that you might be interested in:

Film screening and discussion: Endgame -A talk by Derrick Jensen

Friday 15th August, 7pm (1 hour film followed by discussion) » Read more

Hi all

At the last wellington hub meeting, one of the things that was discussed was the nomination of someone to handle media enquires and publicity.

The idea was that a centralised media group or person for the entire region would be more able to respond to media enquires in the most effective manner. It would mean that every group wouldn't have the burden of training or finding a media-savvy person. » Read more