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Dick Smith and Sam Johnson at important Queenstown event

Submitted by James Samuel on 26 May 2012 - 9:14am | updated 26 May 2012 | Blog entry

 

Dick Smith has been quite outspoken about his views on energy and population, so this event could be an opportunity to have some open honest discussion, on important topics. If you know people in the Queenstown area, please let them know about this.

An Afternoon with Dick Smith & Sam Johnson

hosted by Rod Oram

September 14th, 2012

 

Dick Smith at the ruinsDon’t miss out on an amazing afternoon hearing Dick Smith talk in Queenstown. Dick Smith is one of Australasia’s most progressive business leaders having founded Dick Smith Electronics, Australian Geographic Magazine, and Dick Smith Foods. Come along to hear him talk about what drives him as a leading entrepreneur and what he sees as the challenges and opportunities for the future.

 

 

 

Sam sitting under a tree wearing an NZ 'heart' CHCH teeHe will be joined by Sam Johnson, an inspiring and action-orientated young New Zealander who is best known for initiating the Student Volunteer Army in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes. One of their current projects is The Concert: A Concerted Effort where youth are asked to volunteer 4 hours of their time in return for a free ticket to the best concert the South Island has seen!

 

 

 

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Transition Hillcrest?

Submitted by AndrewB on 25 May 2012 - 12:14pm | Forum topic

Is anyone keen to start a transition initiative in Hillcrest, or in the wider Kaipatiki area (i.e. Glenfield, Birkenhead, Birkdale, Beachaven, Northcote?).

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Thanks to Contributors

Submitted by lainephillips@g... on 24 May 2012 - 2:46pm | updated 24 May 2012 | Forum topic

Hi all,

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New timebank system is ready

Submitted by richard_b on 22 May 2012 - 10:03am | updated 22 May 2012 | Forum topic

I've been interested in timebanking since ~2008, was at the early TT meetings.

I've finally developed a timebank database system which can work immediately for all communities in NZ.  Its free. Although just coming through beta testing and still on the darknet, it will be seeing the light shortly. There is no software to install or servers required; its ready to use. Accessible by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Like all transition towns initiatives it depends heavily on strong developing communities.

For more details see http://www.timebank.org.nz/node/96

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Transition Tauranga Steering Group Meeting

Submitted by transition tauranga on 19 May 2012 - 2:50pm | Event
24 May 2012 17:30
24 May 2012 19:00

Steering group get together with shared nibbles...

 

 

Location / Venue: 
Tauranga Environment Centre
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Atamai Village – Are We There Yet?

Submitted by Craig Ambrose on 18 May 2012 - 12:11pm | Blog entry

Transition Towns and Atamai – Common Goal, Different Approach

The Transition Towns movement is about adapting existing communities to the impending challenges of climate change and energy descent, and the resulting economic and social disruption these challenges are already beginning to create in various parts of the world.   One of the challenges for the Transition Towns movement is whether changes to existing communities can o

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Making better decisions - or making decisions better - with Loomio

Submitted by James Samuel on 13 May 2012 - 8:21am | updated 13 May 2012 | Blog entry

For the last four months a team of volunteers has been working on a piece of free software called Loomio, which I think has huge potential to help grassroots groups increase their positive impact in the community.

Loomio is a free open-source web application that helps groups make better decisions together, and remarkably there is nothing else like it. The team is operating on a not-for-profit and open-source basis, and the aim over the coming two months is to get the software to the stage where it can be given away to non-profit groups, with support for how to use it.

If they can get a little bit of support, to put some food on the tables of the programmers, they'll be able to provide this free tool to groups like Transition Towns. They're now in the last few days of a PledgeMe* campaign, to raise enough money to allow two core volunteers to devote all of their time to this project for the next two months.

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Onehunga, Auckland

Submitted by jen on 11 May 2012 - 8:18pm | Forum topic

Hi, is anyone else interested in starting a Transition Town in Onehunga, Auckland?

 

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Send John a postcard

Submitted by James Samuel on 10 May 2012 - 3:52pm | updated 10 May 2012 | Story

Here's a way to offer John Key some helpful advice. Read the text, and if it makes you smile, then download it and print it and send it...

The image below, is from the PDF file itself, which you can download here:
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http://bit.ly/johnkcard
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Right-Click OR Cntr/Click and Save Target As... OR Save Link As...

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AskShareGive - a website that does just that!

Submitted by Star Gazer on 8 May 2012 - 3:25pm | Blog entry

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