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

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.

Australia’s Open Garden Scheme is a self-funding, not-for-profit organisation that promotes the knowledge and pleasure of gardens and gardening to all Australians.

Each year more than 250,000 people visit around 600 private gardens which open for the Scheme. The entry fees charged fund the Scheme’s operation.

Funds surplus to operating costs are returned to the community in the form of grants for garden-related projects.

Australia’s Open Garden Scheme in association with ABC Radio is proud to offer these grants to community organisations for the creation or improvement of a garden for a public or community outdoor space.

ABC Radio has been a proud supporter of the Scheme since its inception in 1987. From local Saturday morning gardening talkback to ‘Gardening Australia’ on ABC Television, the ABC supports and recognises gardening as one of Australia’s most popular pastimes.

How the Community Benefits

Australia’s Open Garden Scheme is a self-funding, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the knowledge and pleasure of gardens and gardening.

By opening Australia’s finest private gardens to the public, the community benefits financially in two very distinct ways: by donations to charity by our garden owners, and by the Scheme’s own Community Grants program.

Donations by garden owners

Since 1987 the Scheme’s garden owners have donated more than $4.3 million to charity. Last season alone, our garden owners donated around $330,000 to charities and local causes. These funds were raised through garden entry fees, refreshment stalls, plants sales and various other activities on open days.

Community Garden Grants

The Scheme is committed to encouraging gardening and improving our environment. One of the ways we achieve this is by funding community-based garden projects. Each year, funds surplus to our operational costs are returned to the community in the form of grants.

Since 1987, community projects around Australia have benefited to the tune of $925,000. This is in addition to funding our own national expansion.

Recipients of funds include Botanic Gardens which play a vital role in encouraging plant diversity and education. We have funded the identification of important plant collections which enhance the community’s knowledge and appreciation of plant diversity.

The Scheme’s commitment to the gardeners of the future is aptly demonstrated by the substantial number of school gardens which have received funding, encouraging tomorrow’s gardeners.

The therapeutic qualities of gardens and plants have also ensured that hospitals and retirement villages have been the focus of a number of grants.

A growing interest in the gardening heritage of Australia is also reflected in grants given for tree surgery, restoration of hard landscaping, undergrounding of utilities and research into historic gardens.

Inspired by the enthusiasm of community groups, the Scheme has provided funds for projects which are enhancing towns and cities across the breadth of Australia. Included among these are a number of gardens celebrating specific plant collections.

In recognition of the challenges of gardening in our climate, the Scheme has also been involved in the construction of a Waterwise Garden, the installation of watering systems in historic gardens and a Fire Safe Garden in a bushfire-prone region.The 2009 Community Grants Program builds on the success of ten previous annual programs that have returned over $925,000 to the community. Since 1987 the Scheme has funded 385 community projects around Australia.

Australia’s Open Garden Scheme is a self-funding, not-for-profit organisation that promotes the knowledge and pleasure of gardens and gardening to all Australians.

Each year more than 250,000 people visit around 600 private gardens which open for the Scheme. The entry fees charged fund the Scheme’s operation.

Funds surplus to operating costs are returned to the community in the form of grants for garden-related projects.

Australia’s Open Garden Scheme in association with ABC Radio is proud to offer these grants to community organisations for the creation or improvement of a garden for a public or community outdoor space.

ABC Radio has been a proud supporter of the Scheme since its inception in 1987. From local Saturday morning gardening talkback to ‘Gardening Australia’ on ABC Television, the ABC supports and recognises gardening as one of Australia’s most popular pastimes.

How the Community Benefits

Australia’s Open Garden Scheme is a self-funding, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the knowledge and pleasure of gardens and gardening.

By opening Australia’s finest private gardens to the public, the community benefits financially in two very distinct ways: by donations to charity by our garden owners, and by the Scheme’s own Community Grants program.

Donations by garden owners

Since 1987 the Scheme’s garden owners have donated more than $4.3 million to charity. Last season alone, our garden owners donated around $330,000 to charities and local causes. These funds were raised through garden entry fees, refreshment stalls, plants sales and various other activities on open days.

Community Garden Grants

The Scheme is committed to encouraging gardening and improving our environment. One of the ways we achieve this is by funding community-based garden projects. Each year, funds surplus to our operational costs are returned to the community in the form of grants.

Since 1987, community projects around Australia have benefited to the tune of $925,000. This is in addition to funding our own national expansion.

Recipients of funds include Botanic Gardens which play a vital role in encouraging plant diversity and education. We have funded the identification of important plant collections which enhance the community’s knowledge and appreciation of plant diversity.

The Scheme’s commitment to the gardeners of the future is aptly demonstrated by the substantial number of school gardens which have received funding, encouraging tomorrow’s gardeners.

The therapeutic qualities of gardens and plants have also ensured that hospitals and retirement villages have been the focus of a number of grants.

A growing interest in the gardening heritage of Australia is also reflected in grants given for tree surgery, restoration of hard landscaping, undergrounding of utilities and research into historic gardens.

Inspired by the enthusiasm of community groups, the Scheme has provided funds for projects which are enhancing towns and cities across the breadth of Australia. Included among these are a number of gardens celebrating specific plant collections.

In recognition of the challenges of gardening in our climate, the Scheme has also been involved in the construction of a Waterwise Garden, the installation of watering systems in historic gardens and a Fire Safe Garden in a bushfire-prone region.

On Saturday May 23rd the premiere of the new film ‘In Transition’  will be streamed live on the internet from the UK. With input from Transition communities around the world it tells the story of the people that have looked peak oil and climate change square in the face, and responded with creativity, compassion and genius. In the film you will see the stories of communities creating their own currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growing food.  You’ll see local authorities getting behind their local Transition initiatives, and get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement.

http://www.mogulus.com/intransition

Transition Town Kurilpa aims to make our little peninsula and its community more resilient. The word sustainable has so many co-opted meanings, we are using the word resilient in the ecological sense – in this case resilient to the twin concerns of climate change and peak oil.

We intend to raise awareness of these issues and to develop an Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) covering the areas of food, transport, energy , community, health, recreation, waste, built environment and housing, infrastructure and tourism.

We (and other Transition Initiatives in the Brisbane area) will be showing films, having discussions and facilitating trainings (see events) to members of our community to maintain or improve our quality of life, increase social cohesion and prepare for the inevitable changes that are occurring through climate change and peak oil. We see planning for these changes as a positive thing if we do it as a community. Our trainings will show members of the community how to reskilling themselves in gardening, building, carpentry, jam making, wall building, using tools, bike maintenance, composting – the sky is the limit.

Perrin Park
Josling St, Taringa

Time: April 26, 2009 from 10am to 12pm
Location: At Geenfest Launch for this weekend only

We are targeting action on the twin issues of Climate Change and Peak Oil.  As such, we the Brisbane Community, aim to provide increased capacity in assisting Brisbane City Council to address these issues. We aim to work with the council. They too live in our communities.

If you would like to be actively involved in the Transition Town Movement in Brisbane, please join our ning here.