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updated 27 Jul 2011

Welcome to Transition Lower Hutt

To a new era of sustainable, low-carbon, quality living.

Transition Town Lower Hutt Office

Pop in for a chat and a cuppa and find out what TT Lower Hutt is up to.
Open part time: Phone for hours: 5892646

Alicetown Community Centre,
38 Victoria St, Alicetown, Lower Hutt

 

Transition Cafe

Coming now (from 2 May 2011): Wellington's first "Koha Cafe" - experience a gift economy and come along for fantastic homemade food, coffee and tea - plus lots of activities to participate in, learn and observe: breadmaking, DIY Cleaners, gardening, crafts, preserving... Bring your project, bring your friends, bring your kids --- there will be dancing (well, maybe...) and excellent food!!

Tuesdays, 10 am - 2 pm, Alicetown Community Centre, 38 Victoria St, Alicetown, Lower Hutt

Lower Hutt contacts

Transition TownLower Hutt admin team: email transitiontown@lowerhutt.org.nz

 

Tuesday Night Events

 

 

Transition Towns philosophy

Tuesday 9 August 2011, 7030pm-9:30pm

An interactive evening following the spread of the Transition Towns philosophy and exploring how Transition Towns can continue to provide solutions for many of the problems facing New Zealand today.

It will be a great evening of talking, learning and being re-inspired by positive, practical ideas.

Any questions, phone Carolyn Nimmo on (04) 567 5707 (evenings)

Location: Alicetown Community Centre: 38 Victoria Street,  Alicetown

Entry by koha

 

Transition Koha Café

Every Tuesday morning, 10:00am-12:00

A great chance to get together with old friends or make some new ones while learning or sharing new skills over a cuppa and good food.  Join us at the café any or every Tuesday.  See you there.

Alicetown Community Centre: 38 Victoria Street,  Alicetown

 

Join the Transition Lower Hutt email group to keep informed on events

 

 

Other events

PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS 2011

How to design your life with the future of the planet in mind.

Based in the Horowhenua region of the lower North Island, we offer permaculture workshops and a Permaculture Design Course which is divided into 12 modules, held on weekends throughout the year. All workshops include small group exercises and discussions, with hands-on demonstrations. If you want to attain the Permaculture Certificate you need to attend the first two base modules — Design Course Introduction — and at least 8 of the other 10 modules of the course.

For more information please contact:
Gary and Emily Williams
at (06) 362 6684 email: gary@waterscape.co.nz

 

Transition Initiatives are based on four key assumptions:

  1. That our settlements and communities presently lack the resilience to enable them to weather the severe energy shocks that will accompany peak oil.
  2. That life with dramatically lower energy consumption is inevitable, and that it's better to plan for it than to be taken by surprise.
  3. That we have to act collectively, and we have to act now.
  4. That by unleashing the collective genius of those around us to creatively and proactively design our energy descent, we can build ways of living that are more connected, more enriching and that recognise the biological limits of our planet.

The future with less oil could, if enough thinking and design is applied sufficiently in advance, be preferable to the present. There is no reason why a lower-energy, more resilient future needs to have a lower quality of life than the present. Indeed, a future with a revitalised local economy would have many advantages over the present, including a happier and less stressed population, an improved environment and increased stability.

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