Financial meltdown?

What does that mean?
What is going on here?
How serious is it?

Come and find out at 7pm on Wednesday 17th December at the Newtown Community Centre (cnr Rintoul & Colombo Sts).

A fun day out for the whole family to enjoy Lyall Bay Beach! A variety of stalls, music and fun family activities.
Proceeds will go towards Miramar South School Children participating in the Surf Lifesaving Beach Education program, and scholarships to join a Surf Lifesaving Club.
Contact Amber Taylor, amberjanine@yahoo.com, to become involved or for further details.

Look out for this week's Wellingtonian newspaper. It has an article about Transition Towns with something of a Welly South flavour including a georgeous pic of Rimu and Charlotte!

Hi all,

next Wgtn South meeting is 7pm Wednesday 3rd December in Island Bay, at the St Francis de Sales parish hall (corner of Mersey and Clyde St).

In case you haven't been before and you're not super close, you can catch the number 1 bus and hop off at the Empire movie theatre.

http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/wellington/island+bay/-st+francis+de+sales+catholic+church/

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.

Had a great time today, playing around with solar cookers! The weather was kind to us so luckily there was very little cloud.

Johanna had a couple of cookers that she'd made in the past, and John bought some cardboard with tinfoil glued on it, for us to make more.

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

We'll be hanging out in our backyard cooking a few things in our solar cookers (both cookers very cheap and simple - not very glamorous - one homemade). We'll probably work on making a couple more cookers out of boxes during the day as well.

Children welcome.

Check this page for notice of postponement if the weather is not good.

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.