Wellington

There are transition town groups in: Brooklyn, Hataitai, Johnsonville, Karori, Lower Hutt, Ngaio, Upper Hutt, Wadestown, Aro Valley and Wellington South.

There is a regional Wellington Transition Town steering committee, but it mostly serves as a networking and sharing of experience hub, rather than attempting to dictate actions or processes to local groups.
Background on Wellington Initiatives

We had our first Transition Towns of Wellington meeting in November 2007. We felt that because Wellington is a reasonably large area, it makes sense to create Transition Initiatives by suburb or suburb groups initially. However, we still need to network regularly as a whole to meet, share experiences and do some planning towards Transition Town Wellington!

Since that first Wellington meeting, Transition Initiatives have been popping up all over Wellington - the response has been amazing! So many capable people are stepping up to bring this movement to their local communities. Change is in the air...

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Inventory of resources

Criteria for 'official' TT status

Initial thoughts on governance

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The challenge; do local Wellington actions make an impact on global crises?

27 Jan 2009 18:00

THINK GLOBAL - ACT LOCAL

 

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Location / Venue: 
Southern Cross Bar

Karori

Transition Town Beginnings

Karori now has 7 people interested in joining and learning more about Transition Towns, and now has a co-ordinator who will be contacting all interested over the next few days to get things moving.

About Karori:

Karori is a large suburb in the western hills of Wellington. Ideas for Karori as a Transition Town - community gardens, vouchers for local businesses, community building, greenbikes hire at Karori Park, craft and food market every month, local renewable energy supply....

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TT Brooklyn: I'm Dreaming of an Eco Christmas

10 Dec 2008 19:00

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.

Location / Venue: 
Brooklyn Community Centre

Transition Town Brooklyn Goes to the Festival

27 Nov 2008 09:30

Transition Town Brooklyn will have a stall by the laundromat at this year's Brooklyn Festival.

Movie night! The Nuclear Comeback

20 Nov 2008 18:00
20 Nov 2008 21:00

Hi all,

Sorry for the late notice, but the Wgtn South groups is going along to the opening night of the Reel Earth Film Festival (put on by Forest and Bird) at the Paramount at 6pm, Thursday 20 November. $20 (includes free wine!). Call Paramount to book on 04 3844080.

Everyone welcome! I guess we'll be milling round upstairs just before the screening (sorry that's pretty vague, just come say hello if you think we look like TT suspects), and we'll probably go for a drink/cheap kai afterwards. Come along!

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Location / Venue: 
Paramount Theatre, Wellington

Film Night - The End of Suburbia

12 Dec 2008 19:30

Classic film showing how important oil is. Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow?

Location / Venue: 
Room 1, Johsonville Community Center, 3 Frankmoore Ave

Climate and Technology

28 Nov 2008 19:30

Hear about New Zealand's climate directly from the source, respected climate scientist Dr. David Lowe.

Location / Venue: 
Room 1, Johnsonville Community Center, 3 Frankmoore Ave

Johnsonville in 2030

19 Dec 2008 19:30

How do you envisage Johnsonville in the future? How do we get from there to here? Your chance to share and make change happen!

Location / Venue: 
Room 1, Johnsonville Community Center, 3 Frankmoore Ave

Legislation Design Interest Group

Legislation Design Interest Group

If the Transition Towns Movement is to succeed it needs a 'behaviour setting' of legislation that allows the goals of the movement to be achieved without  breaking the law.

Background

New Zealand has two different types of legislation. Originally legislation was written in the "Prescriptive'" style.

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Johnsonville

Transition Johnsonville

Transition Johnsonville is a new Transition Initiative and currently, I
believe, the only one in the Northern Suburbs of Wellington. So whether
you live in Ngaio or Churton Park or wherever, come along! Its a great
way to network and socialise with other transitioners, and perhaps
start an intiative for your own suburb!
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Newtown market

22 Nov 2008 15:00

There will be trucks selling produce (similar to the Victoria St market). Additional to this will be a range of stalls; a community exchange forum; food; activities for kids, and live music/performances. The aim of the market is to improve access to cheap fresh produce, and to create a space where locals can meet, buy/sell/exchange/barter/fundraise, and therefore support each other and the local economy. If the first market is successful it is likely that a regular 1/week or 1/month market will be established.

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Location / Venue: 
St Anne's Church Hall, bottom of Emmett St, Newtown, Wellington
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Wellington South public meeting

6 Nov 2008 19:00

Come along! New people welcome. Feel free to bring nibbles, and a small koha for the room hire.

Agenda is likely to be

  • Stall at upcoming newtown market?
  • Orchard proposal for Nov 7th
  • Pimp my ride
Location / Venue: 
Newtown Community Centre on the corner of Rintoul and Colombo St

Notification List for December Meeting

Bold=done

E-Mail

E-mail TT Brooklyn done

Friends of Owhiro Stream

Brooklyn Community Association

Brooklyn Residents Association (e-mail Carl) done

Mailbox Drop

Deliver to all mailboxes except ‘Addressee/Post mail only’, shops, schools, churches, etc. Numbers in brackets indicate number of mailboxes for planning.

Ashton Fitchett Drive (124), Monteith Grove (18), Lingard Grove (9), Waterhouse Drive (28), Forsyth Grove (16)

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Wellington South - Transitioneering: Managing the Infrastructure of Energy Descent

22 Oct 2008 19:00

A screening of a presentation by Dr Susan Krumdieck from the Canterbury School of Engineering. She (and her team) have modeled a version of a transition town based on her suburb in Christchurch where she has basically put the 12 steps into a practical application.

Location / Venue: 
St Francis de Sales school hall, Mersey Street, Island Bay

TT Brooklyn: Let's Talk Rubbish about Waste

15 Oct 2008 19:00
15 Oct 2008 21:00

LETS TALK RUBBISH ABOUT WASTE!
...How to REDUCE, RE-USE and RE-CYCLE!

Donna Sherlock, Waste Awareness Officer & Project coordinator for Organisational Sustainability, Wellington City Council will talk about how to get wasted and benefit your household!

Local residents will fill us in on:

* Reduse your household waste to no RUBBISH BAGS! How? Join us...

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Location / Venue: 
Brooklyn Community Centre

Biofuels panel discussion

16 Oct 2008 17:30

Dev-Zone invites you to a panel discussion on:  BIOFUELS – Climate Solution or Poverty Trap?

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Location / Venue: 
Dev-Zone, 55 Cuba Street, Wellington
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Wgtn south public meeting

8 Oct 2008 19:00

For a map see: http://www.wises.co.nz/l/Wellington/Island+Bay/Mersey+Street/#c/2r7cx/6wqpp/0/

Regular buses going to The Parade, Island (no. 1 bus) - get off opposite the Empire Cinema on the Parade and turn right up Mersey Street at the Hy Grade Dairy.  Walk one block to the church and school hall is at the bottom on the spire.  From town via the Melrose area, take the no. 22 or 23 to Island Bay, which goes right past the church.

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Location / Venue: 
St Francis de Sales School Hall on Mersy Street, Island Bay

Thinking ahead about what we want

4 Oct 2008 16:00

Aro Valley:

thinking ahead about what we want

 

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Location / Venue: 
Aro Valley Community Centre, 48 Aro St
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Lessons and updates from TT groups around the country - wgtn

24 Sep 2008 19:00

James Samuel will be giving a presentation on what all the other TT groups around the country are up to and how we can learn from them.

After this a World Cafe will be held (you can check out http://www.theworldcafe.com/ if you want to know about those processes, or you can just turn up and be pleasantly surprised).

7 ~ 9.30pm at the Centre for Global Action (2nd story James Smith building on the corner of Cuba St and Manners Mall).

7 ~ 8pm James "National Trends and Lessons Learned"

8 ~ 8:15 Question time

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Location / Venue: 
Centre for Global Action (2nd story James Smith building on the corner of Cuba St and Manners Mall).

Meeting the criteria

  1. We have an understanding of peak oil and climate change as twin drivers and are writing them into our Governance document.
  2. We have formed a steering group of 8 people, 4 from Wellington and 4 from Lower Hutt and had our first steering group meeting.
  3. We are willing to attend a 2 day training course. Just not in Totnes obviously, so we are waiting on NZ training to be sorted out which we understand is coming along.
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