Transition Towns…From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

Fri 20th February 09 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm
 
The Edge
hosted by | Transition Castlemaine
The Transition Town movement has seized the historic opportunity presented by our global challenges to creatively examine the choices we have and choose the future we want. We stand at a cross roads in human history where the choices we make now – about economic growth, energy usage and carbon emissions - will affect generations to come. This talk will look at what those choices are, and why they are so important; and why the Transition movement offers us solutions to the many problems with energy security, carbon emissions, food, and how we can learn to live with the inevitable changes to the way we live and work. ‘Transition Towns’ is an inspiring vision and action plan for how a community can transition to an energy lean, carbon constrained, and relocalised future that is abundant, sustainable, pleasurable, and resilient. Transition Towns began in September 2006 and has since morphed into a worldwide movement with over 100 official Transition Towns, cities, counties, and islands, and several thousand who are considering this model for positive change.
Naresh Giangrande & Sophy Banks

Naresh Giangrande - Focaliser of the TTT Energy Group and co-founder of Transition Town Totnes, Naresh has been involved in designing, running and evolving many of the events and groups that have been at the heart of the enormously successful TTT initiative. He has lived and worked in an eco community, was Managing Director of his own company and has taught meditation.

Sophy Banks - Sophy set up the “Heart and Soul” group in Totnes that focuses on the psychology of change, as well as coordinating the TTT central office and systems. A trainer for over 20 years she has worked as an engineer, information systems consultant and psychotherapist and has considerable experience of voluntary sector and community projects. Naresh and Sophy are visting Melbourne as a part of the Training for Transition World Tour. They will have visited the US, Canada, and NZ, and are in Australia for the month of February delivering training to Australian Transition Initiatives in Eumundi Q’ld, Bowral NSW, and Daylesford Victoria (feb 20-22 ’09).


Castlemaine is an emergent Transition Town. The Castlemaine community, and the Mount Alexander Shire, is well known for its activism on climate change. The Castlemaine Transition initiative builds on the momentum of such work as the Castlemaine 500 project and the Challenge to Change, amongst many others. Castlemaine was also granted the 2008 United Nations Australia World Environment Day Community Award. Castlemaine Community House is a proud supporter of the Castlemaine Transition initiative.

This talk will be followed by information sharing from a local perspective with Cara Sandys from 2pm in the Feel tent. Find out more here.


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