At one week before the election this is a chance for people of all political persuasions to come together and tell our politicians that we want action on climate change. The Walk will be calling for

• A price on carbon pollution,
• Investment in clean energy for a healthy future,
• A commitment to reduce emissions in the life of the next parliament
• Support for poor and vulnerable countries to tackle the impacts of climate change and invest in sustainable development

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

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?

The night features speakers who will share their experiences at Copenhagen and the National Climate Summit; updates from Queensland on coal and sustainable jobs; and an open forum.
This event gives you a chance to learn about what is happening locally and around the world and how you and the Transition Town network can contribute to the movement in Queensland to help reach a safe climate.

Free, Everyone is welcome.
Please RSVP online so we can cater light refreshments:
http://www.climatenetworkqld.org/RSVP

Louise Orr in her vegetable garden created by the Transition Kenmore permablitz (Photo: Westside News)

Transition Town Kenmore’s permablitz initiative has been profiled in the Westside news.

The concept of Permablitzs originated in Melbourne and involves transforming lawns and backyards into productive fruit and vegetable gardens built using the principles of permaculture.

The recipient of our first permablitz, TTKD member Louise Orr told Anna Hilton from the Westside News how it took a “team of 16 people just two hours to make-over my entire garden and we’ve been eating from it all summer”

Transition Kenmore operates not just in Kenmore but over the whole of the Pullenvale ward and has more permablitzs planned in the near future. Even if you are not a Transition Kenmore member you are welcome to get involved in this imitative and have your own place blitzed. For more information on our blitzes see our blog or email us at transitionkenmore ‘at’ gmail.com. More information about the blitz of Louise’s garden can be seen in these before, during and after posts.

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.

The Transition Town movement is gaining momentum in cities and towns around Australia as small groups of motivated individuals come together to make positive changes in their communities.

Our group of panellists are all involved with a range of projects and initiatives that demonstrate resilience and adapatability on an individual and community level.  Collectively, they are providing education, advice, support and encouragement to those keen to learn more about how to build a richer and more vital community.

Come along and hear our terrific panellists and join in the Q & A session.

Phil Heywood: Phil Heywood is currently Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning in QUT and a Fellow and former President of the Queensland Division of the PIA. He is the author of a number of publications including: Planning & Human Need (1974) on the social role of planning and The Emerging Social Metropolis (1997) on the future of metropolitan regional planning.  His latest book on Community Planning is being  published by Wiley-Blackwell in late 2010

Howard Nielson: Principal Consultant and co-owner NAC Consulting.  Howard Nielsen lives at Samford and conducts his family consultancy company with a focus on sustainable business, leadership and community engagementHe was previously CEO of an organization that was listed in the top five “learning organizations” in Australia.  Howard is currently working with fifty businesses in three Queensland communities to help them develop sustainable business practices and sustainable local economies.

Andrew (Wilf) Wilford: Andrew is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Development at bond University.  He is passionate about leading the professionalism of project managemet and has been actively involved with introducing project management into the Climate Change arena.

Emma-Kate Rose: Emma-Kate is currently the Enterprise Development Coordinator for the Food Connect Foundation, leading projects that include the Sustainable Farmland Trust and New Farmers Pathway.  She also provides support for Food Connect’s community franchises in five cities around Australia.  In 2006, Emma founded the Ashgrove Climate Action Group, and in 2007 started Brisbane’s first commercial car-sharing operation in Brisbane.  She is a founding member of the Brisbane Transition Hub.

Event date: 1st March 2010

Venue: The Qld. Irish Association, 175 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane

Cost: $25.  Free for subscribers of The Brisbane Institute. Bookings and pre-payment required.

RSVP: 26th February by telephone to: 32202198 or email to rsvp@brisinst.org.au

Please come and join the Transition crowd for some informal drinks at Brisbane’s best organic florist/coffee shop.

If you have a passion about sustainability, come along and network with like-minded people in a social environment. Please invite all of your friends.

It is a cash bar. All beers, wines and other beverages are organic.

Transition Town initiatives offer hope, as we meet the challenges of peak oil and climate change. Towns, cities, islands globally are following the Transition model. Hear how local communities are taking action – their strategies and how you can be part of it too! You can listen to the talk and question time by going to the Greenhouse website here.

Q & A on Climate Change.

As we move closer to the important decision making event at Copenhagen we need to assist as many people as possible to be as informed as possible.

Dr Philip Machanick will be giving a short presentation
“Understanding the science by being skeptical of the skeptics.” Looking at some of the “skeptics’” arguments and asking, how well do they really stack up? And, would a true “skeptic” believe their “evidence”?

Followed by a Q & A on Climate Change with our panel to help answer your questions and arm you with the knowledge to discuss climate change with friends and family.
On our panel are Dr Philip Machanick, Dr Doone Wyborn and Mike Clark.

If you have ever wondered.
Whats a tipping point? How do greenhouse gasses work? What’s the latest science telling us? What sort of a world are we leaving for future generations? How do we know it’s not the sun? Then come along and find out.
Be informed, Be there!

Wed Nov 18th 7:30pm
Uniting Church Hall
982 Moggill Rd
Kenmore.