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LETS TALK about getting savvy and crafty for a 'GREEN CHRISTMAS'!
Share your ideas for reducing the environmental impact of Christmas without feeling like the grinch!
All welcome
Contact\: Dawn\, dawnbaggaley (at) paradise.net.nz for further information.
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Whangarei - Sat 22 &\; Sun 23 Nov 08
The Journey Intensive is the first step on your path in freedom. This is the course where you dive into and experience firsthand the powerfully transformative affect of Journeywork.
The Journey Intensive is a powerful and deeply transformational two-day workshop and the pre-requisite to all Journey advanced level workshops and retreats.
Benefits of The Journey
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Few of us realize the huge impact that our dietary choices have on not only our health\, but our environment.
For example –
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Slow Food picnic with Simply Good Food’s Setha Davenport
Sunday 23 November at 1-4pm.
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A World Cafe in the morning 10am-12.30pm topics around re-localisation and local resiliance ('closer to home').
We will serve lunch from locally sources produce (partly organic). 12.30pm-1.30pm
1.30pm-3.30pm we have Collin Walker form the Wairarapa Growing Company\, a CSA scheme in the Wairarapa (makes sence).
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www.goinggreen2008.co.nz/goinggreen2008/
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A film and presentation at The Waiheke Community Cinema - December 2nd\, 7\:00pm
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Transition Lower Hutt's film night\; Tuesday 25 November\, 7\:30pm at the St James Church Hall (behind the Lower Hutt Public Library).
Arithmetic\, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett
Professor Bartlett has given this celebrated one-hour lecture\, \\"Arithmetic\, Population and Energy\: Sustainability 101\\" over 1\,600 times since 1969.
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Rob Hopkins at Findhorn (60 minutes). Rob Hopkins started the Transition Towns idea in Kinsale\, Ireland in 2005\, followed by Totnes in 2007.
If you can wait - watch it on YouTube\: Rob Hopkins at Findhorn
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