Brisbane Transition Hub

Local community groups, not-for-profits and non-government organisations located in West End, South Brisbane, Highgate Hill and Hill End are being given the opportunity to receive free energy audits over the next 12 months from local group Transition Kurilpa.  The project will help participating organisations reduce their electricity bills and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as attain funds to install solar hot water or solar power.

Transition Kurilpa has been awarded $37 000 by Brisbane City Council to run the initial component their exciting new sustainable energy project, Energetic Kurilpa. Businesses and homeowners are sometimes given assistance from Government and other bodies, while the not-for-profit sector misses out.  The Energetic Kurilpa project will facilitate our local community and existing non-government organisations to gain the knowledge, tools and resources to reduce their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and to understand sustainable energy issues, thereby adapting to the oncoming impacts of climate change and peak oil.

To achieve this, Transition Kurilpa will work collaboratively with existing community organisations and businesses to offer a program of Level 1 or Level 2 energy audits[1], appropriate retrofits, forums, film screenings and workshops. Participants will also gain training in using audit kits and will be able to loan them during and after the project.  Emission reductions will be monitored and quantified.

More information found HERE

Contact us if you would like to be involved with Transition Kurilpa or participate in this project on info@transitionkurilpa.org.au.

Transition Kurilpa and the Brisbane Transition Hub are hosting an evening with:

David Holmgren, co-founder of permaculture.

JUNE 15th

South Leagues Club
Davies Park, West End (map)
DOORS OPEN 6PM FOR TASTING AND A 6.30PM START

David Holmgren on Future Scenarios

Cost $10/5

“The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. In this workshop I will present an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between Climate Change and Peak Oil using a scenario planning model. In the process I introduce permaculture as a design system specifically evolved over the last 30 years to creatively respond to futures that involve progressively less and less available energy.”
Global oil peak has the potential to shake if not destroy the foundations of global industrial economy and culture. Climate change has the potential to rearrange the biosphere more radically than the last ice age. Each limits the effective options for responses to the other.
The strategies for mitigating the adverse effects and/or adapting to the consequences of Climate Change have mostly been considered and discussed in isolation from those relevant to Peak Oil. While awareness of Peak Oil, or at least energy crisis, is increasing, understanding of how these two problems might interact to generate quite different futures, is still at an early state.
FutureScenarios.org presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between Climate Change and Peak Oil using a scenario planning model. In the process I introduce permaculture as a design system specifically evolved over the last 30 years to creatively respond to futures that involve progressively less and less available energy.
David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept. May 2008
http://www.futurescenarios.org/
http://www.transitionbrisbane.org/transition-town-initiatives/transition-kurilpa/
http://www.transitionbrisbane.org/about-2/

See Flyer: David_Holmglen

SOUTH LEAGUES CLUB
DAVIES PARK, WEST END
DOORS OPEN 6PM FOR TASTING AND A 6.30PM START

Bought to you by Transition Kurlpa

TED talks bring some of the world best thinkers and doers together to share “Ideas worth spreading”. Along with its once a year conferences in California and Oxford, TED affiliated events are now held around the world and many talks are put online for all to see.

Here’s Rob Hopkins talking about the transition to a world without oil at TEDglobal in Oxford last year.

There are lots of other great TED talks available on the website, many along the Technology, Entertainment, Design subject areas but increasingly others too, such as A Greener Future?

Transition Kurilpa will be helping out at the Paradise Street Community Garden, this Sunday, March 7th.

This is a regular social gathering on the first Sunday of the month – good local food, cob oven pizza, weeding, making new friends and supporting one of our local Community Gardens.

So come on down and welcome in the Year of the Tiger.

From 9 a.m. to noonish, this Sunday.

Paradise Street Community Gardens

33 Paradise St

West End

More information about community gardens in Brisbane here.