The screening of the film Economics of Happiness in June (by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & John Page) for Transition Nambour attracted 60 people. It was a powerful and positive message on the value of localisation and involved a strong critique of the damaging, often crazy, global economy and political merry-go-round.
We also hosted a stall at World Environment Day with much interest and discussion.
Strength and resilience comes first and foremost at the local level. In July we had a local ( Buderim) speaker - Mitch Laurie - with a powerful message about career and business sustainability, illustrated by an excellent Powerpoint slide show – an incredible evening. The Powerpoint is available at the link below.
In August we heard about what it takes to be a good advocate for change, from Bob Lee whose work is as an advocate for differently abled populations .
The value that we as a Transition group gather from these talks, and even just the gathering together in a meeting to discuss the issues that are affecting us, is hard to quantify. The Transition Network is spreading worldwide a GRASSROOTS (PEOPLE’S) movement cutting through bureaucratic
complacency and empowering communities to
make energy savings, to re-skill and to understand the issues more thoroughly so they can take
action steps.
Transition shows what people can do in a group over, above and beyond the involvement of government at any level and it has more influence to change things by being a community movement.
Transition shows what people can do in a group over, above and beyond the involvement of government at any level and it has more influence to change things by being a community movement.
The organisation’s website is
www.transitionnetwork.org
It reveals the work being done and
discussions that are happening in active countries.
One example of our Nambour success is the
almost operational Nambour Community Gardens, with a committee which sprang from TT Nambour meetings. For the latest on what is happening
at the gardens see www.nambourcommunitygardens.com.au
In September John Isaacs-Young, through a series of photo slides gave an explanation of how you can
grow, process and roast your own coffee and
when times get tough, trade it for essentials. It's not that
difficult. All steps explained will go up on
this blog.
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