Notes from our meeting at Stu's house.

We used the Open Space format for the meeting.

Agenda items:

• What topics for a lecture series
• Organise that lecture series
• volunteers for the core group
• focusing publiscity/strategy
• create a timetable for the next 6 months
• refer to the 12 steps

Notes from discussion groups (in no particulr order)

Topic ideas for films/lectures/workshops/panel discussion:

• transport
• peak oil
• climate change
• feeding communities, community gardens
• Transition Towns
• Green Dollars/LETS (complimentary currencies)
• energy sustainability
• home efficiency
• health
• price of food
• reenergising community
  * proaction <-> reaction
  *"heart and soul"

Time schedule: a series od 6 to 8 weekly films/lectures/workshops/panel discussions.

Starting late August.

Location:

• either the St James Church Hall
• or some other free/cheap Council venue in central Lower Hutt

Advertising:

• Hutt News - Community Notices
• Hutt News - articles
• Email groups - Transition Towns
• Email groups - other related groups

How do we keep the Transition Lower Hutt organisation energised (ie sustainable!)

Ideas for Creating Awareness

1. Create a list of volunteer groups that have invited speakers and offer competent Transition Town speakers
2. Run regular film evenings
3. Run regular lecture series
4. Create panal discussions
5. Create media group to promote newspapers (local and national), television current events and news programmes
6. Street survey
7. Networking with groups
8. Transition town stalls at events and fairs
9. Letter to editor about different topics that may be related to Transition Towns
10. Email networking re Whats happening with Transition Town events
11. Regular "what's on" piece and regular themed articles in newspapers

Action Plan

1. Julian to write article with the help of Juanita liasing with Simon Edwards
2. Find out about organisations that have speakers - council community groups guidebook egs:
3. Juanita to get in touch with Nick re survey idea