Transition Town Meeting Sun 25th 2pm.
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Kazel
May 18, 2008, 5:48:08 AM5/18/08
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Hi Transition Towners
This meeting coming up may be pivotal for deciding the direction our
Transition Town group is headed. We have bubbled over with exciting
ideas to create resilience and a strong community in our town, and it
is time to really step up and make these ideas into goals with an
achievable plan.
Have a look at our Web-page
http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/OpotikiCoast/OpotikiCoast
and see if any of the ideas there match your own goals and ability to
contribute. Then get onto the Discussion Group site and let everyone
know what you can offer.
We also need people to help with the following
*Burning and/or distributing information on DVD’s
*Providing some food for the meeting (simple and local is best)
*Listing items for trade on www.homegrownmarket.co.nz (Whakatane are
just beating Opotiki with listings)
*Distributing flyers for the next meeting by email or printing them
and giving them to people. Flyers can be downloaded from our
discussion site, or email me.
*Inviting people by word of mouth
*Inviting me to present my slideshow on Climate Change, Peak Oil and
Transition Towns to your groups, clubs, Marae, School, Staff-room,
etc. I can bring the projector, all I need is an audience.
* MORE ideas.
The format for the next meeting “may” run as follows; I will present
the 12 Steps to transition, but skip the TT intro slide-show. New
people who have not seen it before will be able to take home a disk
with a copy of Jo Duff presenting a similar slide-show when TT was
just starting in NZ. This can also be watched on youtube
http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/Resources/OnlineVideo .
We will then have a few people from the community come and elaborate
on their plans and ideas (eg, local market, backyard vege-blitzes
etc). If you have an idea that no-one is working on yet, then this is
your time to share it and get yourself a team together to make it a
reality.
The remainder of the meeting we will break into small groups where we
will create an action plan for each idea, finalise the details and
come away with a task to achieve and report back on.
I understand that not everyone is familiar with how to use our Google
group to post messages. Please give it a go, and if you get stuck,
just email me and I can help. I think it is really important for the
Google group to function as a discussion site so that we are all
taking an equal opportunity to share with each other, rather than
everything coming through me. I am merely a facilitator. Transition
Towns belong to the members.
With the soaring price of petrol (surprise anyone?) not everyone will
be able to make it in on Sunday. This will not mean you cannot get
online now and let us know which area you would like to help. We
should also be able to arrange car-pooling by using the discussion
site to list if you can offer or need a ride.
Cheers
Kazel Cass
Transition Town Opotiki Coast
Website
http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/OpotikiCoast/OpotikiCoast
Discussion Group
http://groups.google.com/group/ttopotikicoast?hl=en
Green Drinks
http://www.greendrinks.org/
For more details ph 07 315 5055
This meeting coming up may be pivotal for deciding the direction our
Transition Town group is headed. We have bubbled over with exciting
ideas to create resilience and a strong community in our town, and it
is time to really step up and make these ideas into goals with an
achievable plan.
Have a look at our Web-page
http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/OpotikiCoast/OpotikiCoast
and see if any of the ideas there match your own goals and ability to
contribute. Then get onto the Discussion Group site and let everyone
know what you can offer.
We also need people to help with the following
*Burning and/or distributing information on DVD’s
*Providing some food for the meeting (simple and local is best)
*Listing items for trade on www.homegrownmarket.co.nz (Whakatane are
just beating Opotiki with listings)
*Distributing flyers for the next meeting by email or printing them
and giving them to people. Flyers can be downloaded from our
discussion site, or email me.
*Inviting people by word of mouth
*Inviting me to present my slideshow on Climate Change, Peak Oil and
Transition Towns to your groups, clubs, Marae, School, Staff-room,
etc. I can bring the projector, all I need is an audience.
* MORE ideas.
The format for the next meeting “may” run as follows; I will present
the 12 Steps to transition, but skip the TT intro slide-show. New
people who have not seen it before will be able to take home a disk
with a copy of Jo Duff presenting a similar slide-show when TT was
just starting in NZ. This can also be watched on youtube
http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/Resources/OnlineVideo .
We will then have a few people from the community come and elaborate
on their plans and ideas (eg, local market, backyard vege-blitzes
etc). If you have an idea that no-one is working on yet, then this is
your time to share it and get yourself a team together to make it a
reality.
The remainder of the meeting we will break into small groups where we
will create an action plan for each idea, finalise the details and
come away with a task to achieve and report back on.
I understand that not everyone is familiar with how to use our Google
group to post messages. Please give it a go, and if you get stuck,
just email me and I can help. I think it is really important for the
Google group to function as a discussion site so that we are all
taking an equal opportunity to share with each other, rather than
everything coming through me. I am merely a facilitator. Transition
Towns belong to the members.
With the soaring price of petrol (surprise anyone?) not everyone will
be able to make it in on Sunday. This will not mean you cannot get
online now and let us know which area you would like to help. We
should also be able to arrange car-pooling by using the discussion
site to list if you can offer or need a ride.
Cheers
Kazel Cass
Transition Town Opotiki Coast
Website
http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/OpotikiCoast/OpotikiCoast
Discussion Group
http://groups.google.com/group/ttopotikicoast?hl=en
Green Drinks
http://www.greendrinks.org/
For more details ph 07 315 5055
Kazel
May 25, 2008, 4:34:35 AM5/25/08
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Hi,
The TT meeting went brilliantly with each group coming away with
visions for the future, and strategies to achieve them. I spent most
of my time with the 'garden-makeover' group, and we have a plan to
create some flyers, generate a bit of newspaper publicity, and
doorknock on a street to offer people help to get themselves a
vegetable garden established.
There are a lot of things that we will need, and I have written a
submission for the Council on this... I will post it under the thread
"Submissions" so that other people who have ideas for submissions can
include theirs, as well as copying and submitting just whatever bits
that maybe you agree with if you would like to support what I have
written.
The Market group have got a plan of action, and i'm sure we'll be
hearing about that from Kelly soon.
Lynne was in a specific Transition Town Submissions to Council group,
and hopefully if everyone on this list can put in a supporting
submission then we will really make an impact and the council may
invite us to share our visions with them. We have until Tuesday to
whip something up and send an email to in...@odc.govt.nz .
Tiaho shared what she has been working on with the organic food co-op
idea, and when we get a product list from Chantal's to distribute she
will be asking us to opt in and state our preferences for an initial
order. Yay!
Cheers
Kazel
On May 18, 9:48 pm, Kazel <ka...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Transition Towners
>
> This meeting coming up may be pivotal for deciding the direction our
> Transition Town group is headed. We have bubbled over with exciting
> ideas to create resilience and a strong community in our town, and it
> is time to really step up and make these ideas into goals with an
> achievable plan.
>
> Have a look at our Web-page
>
> http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/OpotikiCoast/OpotikiCoast
>
> and see if any of the ideas there match your own goals and ability to
> contribute. Then get onto the Discussion Group site and let everyone
> know what you can offer.
>
> We also need people to help with the following
> *Burning and/or distributing information on DVD’s
> *Providing some food for the meeting (simple and local is best)
> *Listing items for trade onwww.homegrownmarket.co.nz(Whakatane are
> Green Drinkshttp://www.greendrinks.org/
The TT meeting went brilliantly with each group coming away with
visions for the future, and strategies to achieve them. I spent most
of my time with the 'garden-makeover' group, and we have a plan to
create some flyers, generate a bit of newspaper publicity, and
doorknock on a street to offer people help to get themselves a
vegetable garden established.
There are a lot of things that we will need, and I have written a
submission for the Council on this... I will post it under the thread
"Submissions" so that other people who have ideas for submissions can
include theirs, as well as copying and submitting just whatever bits
that maybe you agree with if you would like to support what I have
written.
The Market group have got a plan of action, and i'm sure we'll be
hearing about that from Kelly soon.
Lynne was in a specific Transition Town Submissions to Council group,
and hopefully if everyone on this list can put in a supporting
submission then we will really make an impact and the council may
invite us to share our visions with them. We have until Tuesday to
whip something up and send an email to in...@odc.govt.nz .
Tiaho shared what she has been working on with the organic food co-op
idea, and when we get a product list from Chantal's to distribute she
will be asking us to opt in and state our preferences for an initial
order. Yay!
Cheers
Kazel
On May 18, 9:48 pm, Kazel <ka...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Transition Towners
>
> This meeting coming up may be pivotal for deciding the direction our
> Transition Town group is headed. We have bubbled over with exciting
> ideas to create resilience and a strong community in our town, and it
> is time to really step up and make these ideas into goals with an
> achievable plan.
>
> Have a look at our Web-page
>
> http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/index.php/OpotikiCoast/OpotikiCoast
>
> and see if any of the ideas there match your own goals and ability to
> contribute. Then get onto the Discussion Group site and let everyone
> know what you can offer.
>
> We also need people to help with the following
> *Burning and/or distributing information on DVD’s
> *Providing some food for the meeting (simple and local is best)
Pip
May 27, 2008, 7:01:01 AM5/27/08
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On May 25, 8:34 pm, Kazel <ka...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The TT meeting went brilliantly with each group coming away with
> visions for the future, and strategies to achieve them. I spent most
> of my time with the 'garden-makeover' group, and we have a plan to
> create some flyers, generate a bit of newspaper publicity, and
> doorknock on a street to offer people help to get themselves a
> vegetable garden established.
>
> There are a lot of things that we will need, and I have written a
> submission for the Council on this... I will post it under the thread
> "Submissions" so that other people who have ideas for submissions can
> include theirs, as well as copying and submitting just whatever bits
> that maybe you agree with if you would like to support what I have
> written.
>
> The Market group have got a plan of action, and i'm sure we'll be
> hearing about that from Kelly soon.
>
> Lynne was in a specific Transition Town Submissions to Council group,
> and hopefully if everyone on this list can put in a supporting
> submission then we will really make an impact and the council may
> invite us to share our visions with them. We have until Tuesday to
> whip something up and send an email to i...@odc.govt.nz .
> Hi,
>
> The TT meeting went brilliantly with each group coming away with
> visions for the future, and strategies to achieve them. I spent most
> of my time with the 'garden-makeover' group, and we have a plan to
> create some flyers, generate a bit of newspaper publicity, and
> doorknock on a street to offer people help to get themselves a
> vegetable garden established.
>
> There are a lot of things that we will need, and I have written a
> submission for the Council on this... I will post it under the thread
> "Submissions" so that other people who have ideas for submissions can
> include theirs, as well as copying and submitting just whatever bits
> that maybe you agree with if you would like to support what I have
> written.
>
> The Market group have got a plan of action, and i'm sure we'll be
> hearing about that from Kelly soon.
>
> Lynne was in a specific Transition Town Submissions to Council group,
> and hopefully if everyone on this list can put in a supporting
> submission then we will really make an impact and the council may
> invite us to share our visions with them. We have until Tuesday to
EXCELLENT to join you all today, and worthwhile on many levels. I
feel our sharing of ideas and plans is not in vain, and we are dealing
with many similar issues, primarily engaging the community...
but after today I can see that we are each heading in the same
direction.
Our major push on the gardening front will be working at Wairiki
Institute community garden from Tuesday am, and from that (with
Shane's guidance) I can see our core group not only growing veg and
fruit there, but having the
confidence to plant at home (at the right time of year!! This is my
immediate problem - not having much of a clue about NZ seasons!) We
will also have the capacity there to produce excess, both in seed
sowing/propagation and crops. Then we can get creative about using
the resource.
As I said today, hopefully L will get it in the press about Arbour Day
(5th June) inviting all n sundry to come plant a tree, either supplied
by kind local businesses or donations from individuals.
We almost started a Permablitz - all go to one persons house, help do
the permaculture bed, enjoy kai...then sow the seeds to take to the
next blitz.
L again, leading the way with the idea at least....she has so little
time to "deliver".
Our attempt at local produce sharing has arisen from www.homegrownmarket.co.nz
where a bunch of us met at my place to swap produce. We thought we
would do it again at another garden, so we could swap and be nosey at
the same time... Chris suggested we bag produce in $1 bags for easy
swapping. Interesting idea. We swapped plants too.
Our Green Screening in June will be around Bikes (Critical Mass and
The Return of the Scorcher), and we may organise (well I might) a
child-friendly bike ride from the heads to the Farmers Market the
following Sunday, where we may also get another chance to see the
Electric bikes, Cargo Bikes (http://www.cargobikenz.co.nz/) and tuk-
tuk. Vendor Cafe opposite the Market has agreed to open for morning
tea.
Sounds like we may be heading for a Critical Mass monthly bike ride
and cafe-stylie Green Drinks soon. Global Critical Mass Bike rides
are on the last Friday of the month we think.
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