Imagining Transition in the Sydney Region
The attached report (link below) is the output of a full day workshop held in January 2009 by a group of Transition Sydney people and others. The workshop captured many ideas of what Transition might involve in Sydney and also examines some of the background and history of other initiatives toward sustainability in the past.
It has sat too long in the back room of this website and now we invite you to read it and to add your ideas, visions and information. Use the "Add new comment" link below to feed in your ideas and between us lets expand this valuable resource.
Here's the link to the paper "Imagining Transition"
Debate on Land Use in Sydney - podcasts
People thinking about transition to a post-peak-everything Sydney and questions such as "how do we get around if not by car?", "how do we feed ourselves?", "how to we get off the dirty coal-fired energy grid?", "how does Sydney accommodate dramatic population growth in the next 20 years?" and so on, will inevitably form a view about how our precious land in Sydney should be used.
A good video from Transition Whidbey (USA)
Andrew L, our roving researcher and maven sent a link around to the mail list recently. Its a really well-made video that communicates the community building aspect of Transition nicely. Here 'tis and thanks Andrew! (It's not an urban setting, and maybe our job in Sydney is somewhat more challenging, but if we can draw inspiration from it, that all good!)
Copenhagen - what now?
Transition Sydney co-founder Ruth, is in touch with the Australian chapter of the Association for the study of Peak Oil (ASPO) and received this interesting link this week from ASPO's Ian Dunlop who is just back from Copenhagen where he was a member of Mikhael Gorbachef's Climate Change task force. (Sorry, the earlier link was a broken one!)
The link is to an article by Paul Gilding which is an interesting and thought-provoking read.
Why can't we do this?
Why can't we scale -up the solution to a Sydney size?
Watch this and ask yourself the question.
Resilience - A great article from Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins
A new article by Rob Hopkins for the publication "Resurgence", points out that the usual responses to climate change from all levels of government and business are missing a vital point - that of resilience. The article expores what resilience means in our communities and how vulnerable they are when depending on very long chain supply lines of a great deal of the basic living living necessities. You can read this excellent article here transitionculture.org/2009/10/21/resilience-thinking-an-article-for-the-latest-resurgence/
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