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Energy Group Meeting – Thursday 1/3/12

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Energy Group Meeting – Thursday 1/3/2012
Suggestions Please! – Energy Expo

I have been continuing to contact as many prospective exhibitors as possible to try and come up with a mix that is varied and interesting. There doesn’t seem much point in having a dozen competing Solar PV and/or Solar Hot Water companies. Anyway most of the solar companies and the major utilities I have contacted haven’t bothered to respond.

The following is a list of those who have expressed an interest in participating. However I should stress that it does not include a commitment to pay a specific amount (for commercial exhibitors) or to be available on any particular date (currently 22 April).

Commercial

  • The Solar Guys
  • Batteryworld Enoggera
  • Springers Solar
  • Propa Future Solutions (Gold Coast)
  • Segway
  • Electrobikes
  • Solahart
  • Trevor Berrill (and/or his publisher)

Non-commercial

  • Beyond Zero Emissions
  • Alternative Technology Association
  • Australian Electric Vehicle Association (two members so far with electric vehicles)
  • Sizzling Solar Systems (Stan Cadjeler – May only. or Dr Barb Ford)

This list seems to me a bit light to generate enough income from the commercial providers to cover the costs of promotion (banners newspaper ads letterbox drops) and public liability insurance. It seems important to budget for some substantial promotion as our greatest challenge has always been to engage public interest.

I would really appreciate more suggestions about specific exhibitors who would add value to this list or even categories of exhibitors I might not have thought of yet.

I hope you can come along to the meeting to see what new ideas we can come up with. If you can’t make it and have some suggestions please email them to me at expo@transitionthegrove.org.au.

Transition The Grove – Energy Group Planning meeting 
When: Thursday 1 March – 7:00 pm
Where: Ferny Grove State High School Library – McGinn Road
Bring: Ideas
Cost – FREE! – Supper included. Gold coin donation appreciated.

I hope you will be able to make it.

Regards

John Tennock 
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Welcome New Member – Lorrae Lynne

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This e-newsletter is being sent to the Environment Education Energy Water Building & Construction Governance Security Facilities Local History Community Cultural Values Towards Zero Waste The Head The Heart and The Hands Subgroups.

Welcome new member Lorrae Lynne. Lorrae is a Keperra resident and joined at the recent Healthy Lifestyles Expo.

Warm regards

Anne Tennock

Subgroup Organiser
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Community Health Services

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Dear {usertag:name}

I have just been going through the Transition The Grove website listings of local health services and NGOs to put together some suggestions from which representatives may be sought for the North West Community Health Centre Community Consultative Committee.

Some time ago I did a lot of work pulling together the local information under the Health menus but it is far from complete.

Could we treat getting the local Health services information links complete as a project for the Health Subgroup?  If we have a look at what is already there and think about what is missing that we also know about we can add it in. The details should be checked pretty carefully.

Anyone willing to get started can work on any bit independently and when you have something to add correct or update send the details through via a Contact Us email and it can be loaded straight on to the website.

I guarantee it is fun when you start to look systematically for this information and get to know what is right there before your eyes locally.

Regards

Anne

Subgroup Coordinator
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Welcome New Member – John Clark

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This e-newsletter is being sent to members of the Food & Gardening Environment Energy Water The Hands and Towards Zero Waste Subgroups.

Welcome John Clark as a new member who has signed up to these Subgroups. John comes to us from the Alternative Technologies Association and some of you will know him already as a regular attender at the Energy Subgroup meetings.

We’re busy preparing for this evening. So far we have people to lead the planning for displays and activities for the Ferny Grove Festival for Energy Health Food & Gardening Water Towards Zero Waste Transport.  We still need someone to coordinate the Environment display as a lot has been happening locally in that area.  It is looking good.

Do come along tonight. We’ll need ideas and energy.  The aim is to keep any volunteer work effort down to no more than one hour a week before the Festival for each of those involved. Hopefully that will be manageable for people and should be enough to get a very good job done to showcase our community involvement and projects and visions.

Ciao for now

Anne
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Transition The Grove at Arana Ausfest

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Dear {usertag:name}

Just a reminder that we will be having an information booth at Arana Ausfest 2010 at Arana Leagues Club on next Saturday 30 October.This is the event that was postponed due to bad weather on 9 October.

Our aim is to connect with as many people as possible in our community and to collect email addresses so that we can invite them to future events like film and discussion nights and the Energy Group meeting at Arana Library on 14 November.

We have set up our marquee to be solar powered. From previous experience this provides a couple of benefits.

  1. In enables is to use a lap-top computer to show some engaging and informative videos about Transition Towns.
  2. The solar panel is quite conspicuous and makes good conversation starter about renewable energy.

We have also purchased a couple of insulated pump-pots so that we can serve hot drinks to volunteers and visitors.

  • Setup is from 9:00am to 12:00 noon (We’ll start about 10:30am)
  • Entertainment goes from 12:30pm to 6:50pm
  • Bump-out is from 6:30pm
  • Fireworks will go from 6:50pm to 7:00pm

We would value your participation and hope to see you there. Any time you can manage will be appreciated.


Regards

John Tennock

3851 1016
0432 478 703



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Brisbane Transition Hub Ning

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As a member of Transition The Grove we encourage you to sign up also as a member of Transition The Grove on the Brisbane Transition Hub Ning at http://brisbanetransitionhub.ning.com/      You will find us down the left hand column.

The Brisbane Transition Hub is a South-East Queensland-wide body linking local Transition Towns and Transition Initiatives together. It is a great source of activities happening in SE Queensland and gives an empowering sense of the bigger picture.

On this site you will also find information about meetings seminars and other Transition Town events held outside our local area.

Regards

John Tennock

President

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Transition the Grove Update – October 2010

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We have taken the opportunity to participate in Arana Ausfest 2010 at Arana Leagues Club on Saturday 9 October from 12:30pm to 6:50pm Fireworks from 6:50pm to 7:00pm. Come along to our information stall for a chat and enjoy the fun of the festival.

Wednesday 27 October 6-8pm Brisbane Launch of the Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan Brisbane Convention Centre FREE EVENT

When people tell you renewable energies will never be sufficient to substitute for coal here is the evidence that they are behind the times.  This plan is a detailed and costed blueprint for transitioning our stationary energy sector to 100% renewable energy in ten years with technologies commercially available now. Source:www.beyondzeroemissions.org

For more October events in The Grove check out the Events page on our web-site. There are heaps of local activities to join in get connected and help build local community resilience.

Cheers

John Tennock
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Waste Management Forum

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Title:  Waste Management Forum for Business
When:vv18/05/2011 09:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Category:  Forum

Description

Venue: Narangba Valley Tavern 37-47 Golden Wattle Drive Narangba
RSVP: Caboolture DEEDI Service Centre by 5:00pm Friday 13 May.
5431 2550 sdcCaboolture@deedi.qld.gov.au
This event is complimentary.
Managing waste is becoming an issue for many businesses and this forum will provide you with information to enable better business decisions.

  • Be updated on waste management initiatives at local and state levels.
  • Get a better understanding of available waste-to-energy technologies.
  • Find another business that may be able to use your waste stream or find a waste resource that you may be able to use.

Learn about:

  • Minimising waste
  • Using waste as a resource
  • Using waste as a source of energy
  • Regional opportunities for re-using waste
  • Local and state government initiatives that will influence waste management.
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Welcome new member – Sharon Robinson

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Welcome new member Sharon Robinson from Ferny Hills. Sharon has nominated her interest in the Food & Gardening Health Environment Local History The Head The Heart and Towards Zero Waste Subgroups.

Sharon has recently moved to Ferny Hills and attended an edible garden workshop and is interested to meet others and be involved in a community garden.

We’ve put her in touch with The Hills District Community Garden Group which is actively progressing two projects at the moment: the edible school garden at the Patricks Rd State School Preschool and a much bigger site in the park of Selkirk Crescent in Upper Kedron (BCC) which is progressing through the approval stages.

Our President John is working hard at the moment to do a complete new approach to Transition The Grove’s website. It will hopefully be available from after the New Year. The new approach is to have all the information on the website brought together by topic.  For example on the Homepage there will be buttons for Food & Gardening Energy Environment Health…   When you click on the Health button for example it will take you to all the content and site tools related to Health locally all in one place.

If you ever have suggestions about how to make the website more usable to you and the local community email them through to webmaster@transitionthegrove.org.au 

We have an incredably competent helpful Webmaster! In fact he is rapidly establishing a reputation for building websites on a voluntary basis all over this community. Everyone does their bit to make the world work better in their own way and good websites are a way to network our community together better and have us all speaking more and more to each other like microrhyzal fungi!

If we don’t see you before Christmas happy Christmas.  If someone would like to take on organising a Christmas party or gettogether before then that would be great.

Cheers
Anne Tennock

Subgroup Coordinator
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Welcome New Member – Joseph Smith

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This e-newsletter is being sent to the Recreation Health The Head The Heart The Hands and the Business and Finance Subgroup members.

Welcome new member Joseph Smith to Transition The Grove and the above Subgroups.  Joseph says: Crystal and Joseph offer a progressive and specialised approach for your health and fitness needs. From rehabilitation to weight loss to running events: 5km to marathons and more. There business is called Ferny Grove Fitness and Massage.

Hopefully we will look forward to catching up with them at the Healthy Lifestyles Expo on 16th June at The Hills District PCYC (10am-2pm). We have quite a few of our members participating. It should be a good event.

Warm regards

Anne Tennock

Subgroup Organiser
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