Transition Towns at Woodford Folk Festival

Transition Sunshine Coast and Transition Kurilpa (Brisbane) delivered a co-presentation on this year's Woodford Folk Festival.

Lots of friendly familiar faces in the audience and lots of new faces too wanting to know more about Transition Towns and how to get involved.

We arranged for space and time at the end of the presentation for people in the audience to get together in the 'meeting place' next door to the GreenHouse to swap email addresses and contact details and link up with people who live near them so they can start their own Transition Town initiatives.

It proved very successful and we look forward to next year when we'll hopefully see even more Transition Towns seeding out of the Woodford Folk Festival experience.

BELOW - the Chai Tent at Woodford facilitated by Robyn Clayfield

BELOW - Woodford provides plenty of opportunities for people to get together, talk and be part of the wonderful community that forms every year at the site.

Cheers,

Sonya Wallace

Transition Sunshine Coast

Transition Town Eudlo

Think Green Consultancy

Transition Town trainer, facilitator and consultant

Another new initiative!

Congratulations to Tamborine Mountain in the Gold Coast Hinterland on becoming an official Transition Town initiative.

If you're not official yet, please think about doing it - the more groups we have added to the list, the better it is for everyone involved.

If you need help filling out the form, please me us know and we can help.

Cheers,
Sonya Wallace
Transition Sunshine Coast
Transition Town Eudlo
Think Green Consultancy

Transition Town trainer, facilitator and consultant

Transition Town Nambour perhaps?

There seems to be some interest brewing in Nambour (on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland) about Transition Towns.

If you live in Nambour and are interested in getting together with some other Nambour folk to discuss the potential of your town to become a Transition Town, either get in touch or perhaps get along to the next Transition Town Eudlo meeting on November 1 at 8.30am at Sweethearts Cafe in the heart of Eudlo.

Cheers,
Sonya Wallace
Transition Sunshine Coast
Transition Town Eudlo

Transition Town trainer, facilitator and consultant

Transition Town Lismore?

I received another email today wanting to see if anyone is interested in starting up Transition Town Lismore in New South Wales?

Dear friends
am wondering if you have contacts in Lismore who want to form a transitional towns group?

I have recently returned form the Maldives, where I designed co managed construction and trained staff to manage "Eco Centro Waste to Wealth" centre.

Please see WWW.youtube,com/ec3global

Wadzy hellowadzy@gmail.com
for Mother Earth

New Transition Initiatives & Brisbane in the news

Congratulations to the latest Australian Transition Initiatives!

Far North Queensland , QLD (http://www.tfnq.org/) will be up and running soon
Sydney North, NSW (http://www.permaculturenorth.org.au/)
Epping, NSW
Darebin, Melbourne, VIC

Some don't have websites just yet, but if you'd like to get in contact with them let us know and we'll try our best to connect you.

If you live near a Transition Town you'd be more than welcome to catch up with them and see what they're up to.

If there isn't one near you, why not start one up?



Also this week we saw the Transition groups in Brisbane featured in The Courier-Mail newspaper talking all things Transition. Here is the link to the story.

Cheers,
Sonya Wallace
Transition Sunshine Coast
Coordinator

Transitioning Far North Queensland

We've just returned from Far North Queensland where we had a whirl wind tour talking to communities about how they might move into transitioning from oil dependency to local resilience.

Our first gig was at the Malanda Pub - a beautiful old timber building.


We stayed with locals and this was the view from my bedroom window in the morning.

That was after the fog cleared - we were up among the clouds...

This is a photo of the home...

We held a two day workshop at Kuranda which resulted in a brand new transition initiative - Transition Far North Queensland.

BELOW: here is a photo of some of the things we worked through - domains of action and zones of influence

This was in the heart of World Heritage Rainforest - right next to the Great Barrier Reef - the effects of climate change will have a significant impact on these areas.

One the positive side, their unique biosphere allows them to grow around 85% of all the world's crops.

And here is the happy group of people who have taken on the task of networking with people across the Tablelands and beyond to bring together their own version of Transition Towns, suited to their particular challenges and opportunities. (Ying, Kym, Brett and Anne)

Here are their outcomes from the weekend.

We look forward to seeing what this dynamic group achieves in the future

Cheers,
Sonya Wallace
Transition Sunshine Coast
Transition Town Eudlo

Transition Town trainer, facilitator and consultant