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Reminder Annual General Meeting Tonight

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Dear {usertag:name}

Just a reminder about the first Annual General Meeting of Transition The Grove Inc.

When: Tonight – Sunday 25 September 7:00pm
Where: Ferny Grove State High School Resource Centre

(Enter via the main gate adjacent to the pedestrian crossing in McGinn Road. Proceed straight up the path past the admin building. Turn right at the end and the Library/Resource Centre is on your right (L Block))

Nominations have been received for all management committee positions so it should be quite a short meeting.

There will be an opportunity for members to discuss how they would like to see our activities and sub-groups develop in future.

I look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Regards

John Tennock
President 2010/11 
0432 478 703 
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Welcome New Member – Kirsten Mackenzie

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Dear {usertag:name}

This e-Newsletter is going to members of the Food & Gardening Recreation Health Business & Finance Environment and Water Subgroups.

Welcome new member Kirsten Mackenzie to Transition The Grove and these Subgroups. Kirsten has a local business and links with local associations/school or church.

Subgroups are for you to get actively involved and to meet others who share your interest enough to want to work together to make a difference locally. None of us have the time or energy to get involved too broadly so we encourage you to limit the number of Subgroups to those you are genuinely willing and able to take part in and turn up to meet others and be part of planning for local resilience and the future together.

Remember the Ferny Grove Festival on 28th April from noon onwards. Transition The Grove will be there. Come along and say hello. Take part. It is an opportunity for you to meet and talk with local people about subjects of local interest. The first and most important step is to start to get to recognise a few faces and know a few names. Swap contact details.

Belonging locally starts with all of us.

Cheers

Anne Tennock

Subgroup Organiser
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Welcome to new member in the Education Subgroup

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Dear {usertag:name}

Welcome Sharon Crabbe to the Education Subgroup.

By clicking on the Groups tab – Planning Forums – Education you can start to get to know the other members in this Subgroup and communicate with them.

We look forward to meeting together and planning on the theme of education and skills for transition and resilience in the New Year and supporting local groups and organisations already working in this area.

Regards

Anne

Subgroup Coordinator
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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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Lifelong Learning Council of QLD AGM Guest speaker on Learning Communities Report

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The Lifelong Learning Council of QLD is having their AGMand the guest speaker will be talking about a big study in the Ipswich community which has exciting implications if we want to have a learning community here in our community.

If you are interested in attending we should think about going together as it is quite tricky to find the Croquet Club. (Contact administrator@transitionthegrove.org.au)

Learning Communities Report

http://www.uq.edu.au/boilerhouse/docs/Learning%20communities%20report.pdf

Dear Colleague
You are invited to
The Case for ACE in Queensland

Policy Advocacy discussion
With Michael Cuthill PhD
UQ Boilerhouse
Community Engagement Centre

Michael will be addressing the Advocacy recommendation in the recently published
Ipswich towards a learning community:
A learning community profile audit and gap analysis for Ipswich LGA
Available at: http://www.uq.edu.au/boilerhouse/index.html?page=166657&pid=33709


(this is to be followed by the Annual General Meeting Drinks & Nibbles)

Friday 11th November 2011
3.30 – 6.30pm

at
Croquet Club Cordelia St. South Brisbane

Getting there:
the venue is accessible by bus & train (South Brisbane Railway Station) parking is available on the grounds.

Program:

1. Case for ACE: Policy Advocacy
Discussion
 3.30 – 5.00pm

2. Annual General Meeting
 All welcome

5.00 for 5.15pm to 6.00pm

3. Drinks and Nibbles
 6.00 to 6.30pm
RSVP by Tuesday 9.11.11 to:
Helen Schwencke email: secretary@LLCQ.org 0423 127 492

Please supply the following registration details:

Name:

Organisation: Transition The Grove Inc – Education Subgroup

Address:

Email:

Phone:

Please advise dietary requirements:

Please advise accessibility requirements:
(the venue has a flight of 3 steps)

Helen Schwencke
Secretary
Lifelong Learning Council Queensland Inc.

Promoting learning to enable individuals and communities to thrive not just survive.

LLCQ is a not-for-profit that supports and promotes adult and community learning education and training
Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lifelong-Learning-Council-Queensland/205799976122588
Follow us on Twitter: @LLCQ
PO Box 5054 West End 4101
Phone: +61 7 3844 8400
Internet: www.LLCQ.org
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Health think tank tonight

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Hot Futures: A healthy community without drugs or surgery
When:11/04/2011 06:30 PM – 09:00 PM
Category:Learning Circle

Description

Hosted this fortnight in a local home this is a regular think tank that meets to discuss topics in depth.

The evening commences with a shared meal (minestrone soup homemade bread chicken cacciatore and cous cous).

If you have a serious interest in how we could build a model for health in a tightly-defined local community such as The Grove and if you feel able to participate in an informed intelligent discussion and you live locally here and would like to come along contact  3851 1016.

Regards

Anne
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TTG Food Newsletter

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Dear {usertag:name}

 

 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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The 1 Million Women Campaign is a registered charity. Launched in June 2009 we have over 80000 joined and over 36000 on our facebook. Our long-term aim is lasting behaviour change. Our goal is to inspire 1 Million Women to take practical action on climate change by cutting 1 tonne of pollution out…

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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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As experts warn of an impending food crisis wealthy corporations and nations have been snapping up land in the world’s poorest countries.
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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
3851 1016
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TTG BBQ for Social Inclusion Week

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Social Inclusion Week (20-28 November) is about encouraging Australians to reconnect on a social level to celebrate social diversity and help overcome isolation.

This is Transition The Grove’s first involvement at organising a gathering for Social Inclusion Week so we’ll keep it simple.

Friday 26 November late afternoon in the park at Leslie Patrick Park. Just turn up. We’ll be frying sausages and eggs tomatoes and onions and will bring buns and the makings of tea and coffee and ginger beer cordial.

We’ll cater for 25. Come along and share our simple repast and chat about local stuff.

Hope to see you there.  We’ll put up a Social Inclusion Week sign so you can recognise us.

Regards

John Tennock
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Going for it!

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This is to let the management committee know about a couple of “executive decisions” I have made in order to meet deadlines.

We now have 14 official registrations for our Clean Up Australia Day event which is very encouraging! I believe this response is because I just made the deadline for getting the details into the February issue of The Hills Echo.

I am confident that we can expect a lot more volunteers from other sources. Many people don’t bother to register preferring to just turn up on the day.

With the aim of building community awareness I think it is important to have some publicly accessible activity on each month and promote this through the Echo and other available channels.

I am also keen to capitalise on the visibility we gain from Clean Up Australia Day to invite prospective new members to definite events.

With all that in mind I have sent the following to The Hills Echo for publication in the (18 March) issue:

Transition The Grove invites you to a free public video and discussion evening about building a local community that is sustainable environmentally responsible and resilient in the face of disruptive events. Watch locals put centrally located land back into food production. Enjoy the zest with which reskilling expertise is passed along. Tour a school where community building is taught. And go inside the council chambers as members discuss passing ordinances to accelerate Transition initiatives.

And there are the children. Lots of children. They are woven as a strand through the piece; their beaming faces a glimpse of a future with more holiness. We watch them as they learn and we listen as they speak in their own voices. A poised young lady emerges as one of the film’s narrators.

But the notion of community resilience is really the star of this show. The movie will be followed by a facilitated discussion and a chat over supper.

Where: The Hills Uniting Church Hall Corner of Cycas and Alstonia Steets Arana Hills

When: 7:00pm Wednesday 13 April

Cost: Free (Gold coin donation appreciated)

More Information: www.transitionthegrove.org.au

This was thrown together rather hastily because I will be tied up all weekend and may otherwise have missed the deadline.

I have also booked the venue and arranged with Chris Wright for the loan of their data projector and the DVD of the movie.

I have agreed in principle to make a financial donation to the church for use of the venue but have not yet agreed on an amount. Hopefully the gold coin donations will cover most of it.

More details to come

Regards

John Tennock
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Management Committee Voting Request

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Proposal for Approval by Management Committee Vote

Dear {usertag:name}

This email is going to all members of the Transition The Grove management committee.

There is a proposal awaiting approval by management committee vote.

To submit your vote or to review the result of a previous vote please logon to the web-site then click on this {joomlacontent:436|type:title|link} page link.

After closing the results of votes are forwarded to the secretary for minute keeping.

Regards

John Tennock



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