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Our Community Your Voice Forum

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We’ve received notice of the following community forum and hope that some of you will be able to come along. Transition Towns are after all about planning for our community future and this is a chance to think broadly across the issues both locally and at a state level and into a long-term timeframe. Quite challenging but definitely worthwhile. 

We hope to see you there.

Anne Tennock

SecretaryTransition The Grove Inc

Our Community Your Voice Forum – April 20th 12:00pm – Ferny Grove State High School Ralph Took Auditorium

Hear results of the recent survey meet the delegates learn more about The Queensland Plan initiative and take part in open discussion sessions.

 

This is an opportunity to give Our Community Your Voice.

 

Come and join Dale Shuttleworth Member for Ferny Grove and the local Queensland Plan delegates and discuss your views for our future.

 

The Queensland Plan is a collaborative process that will involve the community industry and all levels of government to set a 30 year vision for the state.

 

We will have a Local Community Forum on Saturday 20th April which will provide an opportunity to begin developing our localised plan.

 

This will not be a State Government plan. It will be a plan created by Queenslanders for Queensland and will influence the future decision making of all levels of government industry and community groups.

 

Registration is free but limited by numbers.

 

Residents of the Ferny Grove electorate are encouraged to register for the Our Community Your Voice forum by visiting http://www.trybooking.com/CRYG

 

The Ferny Grove Electorate includes Keperra Arana Hills Ferny Hills Bunya Ferny Grove Upper Kedron Camp Mountain Jollys Lookout Wrights Mountain Mt Nebo Mt Glorious Highvale Samford Village Samford Valley Cedar Creek Yugar Draper Closeburn and parts of Clear Mounatin Mt Samson & Kobble Creek.

 

 

  
     
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Welcome to a new local health business member Michelle Collingwood

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This e-newsletter is being sent to Transition The Grove Inc members with interests in Health and Business & Finance.

 

Welcome new member Michelle Collingwood. Michelle is a naturopath at Arana Hills. She has just started her own business in the local area hoping to interest people in their health journey.

Michelle we’ve been making quite a concerted effort to collect ideas for looking after health within a local resilience model. You might find the Forum on Health on the Transition The Grove website of interest. All the best with your new local business.

 

Best wishes

Anne Tennock

Secretary

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Peak Oil Seminar at ATA

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This e-newsletter is being sent to members of the Energy Transport and The Head groups.

 Wally Wight is one of our Transition The Grove members and a leading authority

in Australia on Peak Oil. This should be a most interesting presentation. Well worth putting in your diaries and coming along to.

 

ATA Brisbane Branch Meeting 28th February 2013

Peak Oil

When: Thursday 28th February 2013
Time: 7:15pm for 7:30pm start
Where: Albion Peace Centre 102 McDonald Rd Windsor (underneath the Albion Overpass near Blackmore St; UBD 140 Ref. C14)
Map: Click here for a map.
Cost: $3 to help cover venue hire costs

Our first guest speaker for 2013 is Wally Wight.  Wally will provide an overview of Peak Oil from the perspective of having grown up in a post-peak oil community.  He will also give an update on the current status of oil production trends for the future and the risks associated with our vulnerability to those trends.

From Wally’s perspective as an urban and regional planner and transport planner he will then explore some strategies for responding to these risks.  We will see that some of those strategies are exactly the same strategies many are already pursuing for a range of other good reasons.  This may set us a challenge for a positive way forward.

Wally will bring along charts to show we have already passed the Peak Oil phase and how this World resource is already in decline.

This is a topic that will affect us all in one form or another so this would be the perfect opportunity to ask questions directly to someone who has delved deeply into this subject.

ATA Members are encouraged to bring along guests to our monthly meetings and any suggestions regarding future speaker subjects or ATA direction to our committee meeting.

Light refreshments will be served after the meeting where further debate is generally the order of the day over a cup of tea or coffee and a few nibblies.

Kind regards


John Clark
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Community Gardens & welcome Justin Morrissey

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This e-newsletter is being sent to members of the Food & Gardening Recreation Transport Business & Finance Environment Energy and Water subgroups.

Welcome new member Justin Morrissey. Justin is looking to create a community garden with others close to his house on Hakea St.

Justin you might like to have a look at the Community Garden section of the Forums on the Transition The Grove website.  The Hills District Community Garden Group is a good contact for you to know about. Jo Barkworth is the contact.

We went up to Yandina today to a workshop at their community garden on growing bananas. Lovely day. Fabulous communty garden – with aquaponics a propagation shed great chook yard community house potting area a bulk food cooperative and of course a very large permaculture garden with people busily engaged all over the place.  Now that would be nice to have here!

Ferny Grove Shopping Village wants a food garden along the McGinn Rd strip by the fence if anyone wants to be part of the project.

This is a very inspiring time to be involved in growing food – so much to harvest fresh and crisp if you have a food forest or vege garden or orchard. We’ve been away and visited the eco-community we are part of in NSW and were absolutely inspired by the magnificent vegetable gardens our 3 nearest neighbours have put in each about half an acre with extensive infrastructure and highly productive. They’ve done a lot of building the soil quality up to bursting with vitality and richness. On the home front we returned to find that we had every reason to be extremely grateful to one of our neighbours John who had watered our garden regularly here and it was thriving and full of flowers and veges ready to pick. We had to come back to look after another neighbour’s dog. But this is what it’s all about.

Well Justin we wish you well with your garden vision. You might like to put a post on the Community Garden Forum and if people want to get involved they could respond. Also remember the Food and Garden Groups link enables you to email people in the subgroup directly about what you have in mind.

All the best

Anne Tennock

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Building Thermal Performance Assessment Course

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This e-newsletter is being sent to members of the building & construction group.

 

 

A Short Course in Building Thermal Performance Assessment (Residential) 91318NSW

 

Introduction Monday February 11 2013 or Friday February 15 all day – University of Queensland St Lucia

This course provides knowledge and skills to enable the participant to become an accredited Thermal Performance Assessor with BDAV or ABSA. On satisfactory completion of the course a Certificate of Attainment will be issued for you to submit to BDAV or ABSA or your building certifier.

 

  
     
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TTG Food Newsletter

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 This e-newsletter is being sent to the Food & Gardening Subgroup.

1. Link to a review for a book on local food. Loved the review.

 Rebuilding the Foodshed by Philip Ackerman-Leist.

2. Food Buying Group Workshop

If you are not already aware a bunch of us have been working feverishly on putting together what we hope to be a fantastic workshop on how to set up your own food buying groups.

We see this as an important step to becoming more resilient in terms of the stuff we are putting into our mouths and also in terms of community resilience.

We are also hoping the emerging food groups will then become hubs of activity for other ventures and a place to meet your neighbours.

I’ve attached our flyer for the workshop and would love if you could share it far and wide.

foodies unite workshop

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dDVkbWU1VDBQNjg3ZFhGWFJjcjBWdEE6MQ

Register for an all-day workshop  on 24th March.

 

3. Love Food Hate Waste Event.

1 Million Women Campaign
 
YOU’RE INVITED…to our FREE event. Sensational line up including Australia’s first MasterChef Julie Goodwin & legendary cooking family the Fultons. A beautiful opportunity to share the inter-generational wisdom of our Foodies – their passion recipes and tips to healthy eating without the waste. Love to see you there. APRIL 8 – all details at the link
 

Love Food Hate Waste Event

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4. Land-grabbing

We should all be concerned about land grabbing. Our land our water resources are our wealth. Also long-term contracts for food exports being signed without any protections being put in place to ensure that Australians are fed first from Australian farmland.
World’s wealthy buy up overseas farms – Features – ABC Environment (Australian…

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5.  Food and food growing is high on the agenda right now. The HD Community Garden Group is in the process of applying for a site for a community garden up next to Bunya Tip. Lovely site with a deeply peaceful view over forests and some lovely old trees to rest under. Contact is Jo Barkworth.
 
6. Did you read the short article in the North West News about continuing to look for suitable land for a community garden? We’re not sure who put it in and TTG’s President John has contacted Cr Andrew Wines office to see if he can get more information. We’ll keep you posted.
 
7.  Don’t know about you but our garden is growing like blazes at the moment with all the rain and warmth. We’ve dug over the soil in the raised bed where we had put a lot of Bunya tip tree mulch and it is now rich soil (with a lot of witchety grubs in it!) Planting now for autumn. Bananas are loving this weather. We got out with our granddaughter and planted a white mulberry tree (seedling) which should grow tall as she does and give us sweet fruit for years to come. The passionfruit are ripening well too. Do share your growing stories. If anyone wants cuttings or seeds let me know. We get heaps  and are learning what to do with them.
 
8. Remember those terrific organisations Brisbane Organic Growers Inc (1st Thursdays at Peace Hall Albion) QLD Herb Society and the Subtropical Fruit Club. Brisbane Local Food Ning continues to be an excellent source of information about gardening workshops.
 
9. We’re devastated at the news that the Community Nutritionist for the Metro North Region Deb Blakely is going (the position has been wiped). Deb organised the excellent Food Relief Network in this region that has brought together a whole lot of separate organisations who provide emergency food relief (huge amounts). I’ve contacted our local MP about it but so far our community nutrition needs are just being lost in the political process.
 
Drop us a message with any food or gardening news you’d like shared.
 
Happy growing.
Anne
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