From oil dependence to local resilience

Transition Kaitaia

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Started up in June 2008,

Website: http://www.ecocentre.co.nz
Location: Kaitaia
Members: 15
Latest Activity: Oct 6, 2010

On World Environment Day June 5 we had first Transition event in Kaitaia.
The evening was a great success with about 35 people in attendance to watch
a short film on Peak Oil and to hear Nandor Tanchos give a talk about future scenarios.

Following Nandor I gave a presentation on Transition Towns. The meeting ended with a clear direction of investigating the TT model further.

On the 25th of June we held our 2nd meeting and had about 25 people show up. (Not a bad effort as it was a very cold and stormy evening). We watched Robert Newman's very funny "History of Oil" and then did some Open Space work on "where to from here".

By the end of the night a steering group had been formed and the beginnings of a carpool network had been devised.

Next meeting is at the Te Rarawa Offices South Rd Kaitaia on the 10th July 7:00pm.

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The integration of Time Banking with resilience initiatives

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Comment by Alana Tobin on October 14, 2009 at 13:28: Hi Everyone....my husband Max and I are involved in the TTCG meetings to organise a timebank/currency network in Kaitaia and surrounding areas. We have met now three times at the Sea Dragon restaurant, next meeting is scheduled for Mon.16th Nov at 5:30pm for anyone interested in attending and helping to make this initiative a reality!! Take care everyone and have a magical day!!

Glad to see ya all here...

Comment by Larissa Price on April 18, 2009 at 21:15: Hello Northeners. The photo is my son with a 'friendly crab'. I am interested in the possibility of a carpooling scheme/information matrix? It seems often that we have a nearly empty car travelling south. Does anyone know of such an exchange happening or would like to think about it with me? I like the idea from John of using local media to help us connect.

Comment by John Kenderdine on January 6, 2009 at 11:41: Hi Folks - its 2009 and time to face the challenges ahead - I suspect the present low oil prices are a temporary diversion which will make it more difficult in the short term to get our message out there, but there is lots of good stuff happening and I think we need to be making more use of the media to connect with our community.
Next meeting is 12th Jan - see y'all there Cheers, John K

Comment by Sue Ferens on August 29, 2008 at 6:17: Kia Ora Christine, you're in! We just have to get everyone else on to this now... and then us all onto the .org site... Our whanau looks forward to the days of the horse coming back too Catherine - I used to ride to work in the late 70s and also used my horse for ploughing, harrowing etc. Requires a bit of slowing down though! Also sea travel/transport here in the Far North - that's how most goods were transported not so very long ago and could be the way again.

Comment by christine irene machanek on August 17, 2008 at 20:05: yess, i am in. greetings to all.
writing this now a second time, don't know where the first comment went - so sorry if you get it twice.
would be great to have this site here as archive.
i am also fine with a tt communication meeting on the 28th - can we confirm this on the 21th?!
see you there and then
*C*

Comment by Catherine on August 15, 2008 at 12:29: Rongo, That's a good quote you found! That's why I'd like our whanau or community to have some horses. Might be the way to go in the not too distant future.

Comment by Rongo Bentson on August 13, 2008 at 16:48: Just found this quote by an Arab which indicates that they certainly know of Peak Oil: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father drives a Mercedes, my son will ride a camel."

Comment by Catherine on August 8, 2008 at 16:39: Eeek! Can anyone tell me how we can upload documents to this website, so we can start building a archive of key documents (I was going to ask our Communications Group if we post our meeting notes on here for everyone to see).

C

Comment by Catherine on August 3, 2008 at 16:18: Kia ora Mike, koutou ma,

I just joined this group (better late than never!). Looking forward to catching up with everyone at the next Kaitaia TT meeting, Thursday 7 August, Kaitaia College Staffroom, 6:30pm.

Catherine

Comment by Mike Bryan on June 30, 2008 at 19:24: Hi folks!
I was wondering when some other locals would appear on this site!
I hope to catch up with you at the next meeting.
Mike Bryan