Latest Initiatives...

Latest initiatives from Transition Town Boroondara include:
- Surrey Hills Transition Town Seminar - April 17
- Carrotmob, Hawthorn - April 17
- Kew Food Co-op

Scroll down for further information on the above...

Transition Town Seminar

Make Surrey Hills a Transition Town...
Saturday 17 April 2010, 5-9pm
5.00pm - Registration
5:30pm - Introductory talk & film
6:30pm - Supper (please bring a plate to share)
7:30pm - Group discussions & workshops

Surrey Hills residents are invited to gather on Saturday 17 April from 5 pm at the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre to find out how forming a Transition Town in Surrey Hills could help them create a friendlier and more sustainable community.

Razia Ross, who started Transition Town Boroondara just over a year ago will talk about how you can achieve sustainability in your community and your home.

Transition Towns started in the UK about five years ago to help communities to learn practical grassroots ways of transforming their lives in the advent of climate change and peak oil. The future doesn’t need to be gloomy and dangerous if we all get together and act now to change our habits and mindsets. Razia says that communities who work together can make a difference by growing their own food, starting community-supported agriculture to provide them with locally-grown food, by encouraging the local council to provide more extensive community gardens and urban orchards, by changing from cars to bicycles and public transport, by food swaps, recycling and by being creative and positive in relation to the future and much, much more.

Parts of the film ‘In Transition’ will be shown to give you some creative ideas, as well as to stimulate your own thoughts. Everyone has ideas of what they would like the future to be like. Take this opportunity to share your ideas with a like-minded group of people.

Please RSVP

SHNC on 9890 2467

A FREE event sponsored by Surrey Hills Neighbourhood House (SHNC)

Melbourne's FIRST Carrotmob Event - Hawthorn

Where? Local convenience store, 52 Church St, Hawthorn
When? Saturday April 17th, 10.30 - 1pm (rock up at anytime)

A local convenience store in Hawthorn has pledged 100% of their carrotmob profits to go
towards making positive and sustainable changes to their business!!! For more info see the Carrotmob Melbourne Website

WHAT IS CARROTMOB? It's about using carrot not stick to encourage businesses to make environmentally sustainable and socially responsible changes to their practices.

WHAT’S THE CARROT? The consumer Dollar! By organising how we each consume we can use our collective consumer power to influence business.

WHO’S THE MOB? You and many others! An identified business that shows a commitment to making changes will be “mobbed”. The business pledges a percentage of the profit they make from the "mobbing" to implement changes in their business. Everyone wins!

WANT TO JOIN THE MOB?...send us an email to join the mailing list or just rock up on the day: carrotmobmelbourne@gmail.com

Boroondara's First Food Co-operative

Would you like to eat fresh and chemical-free food?

Would you like to disentangle yourself from big food miles?

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to ask the farmer to grow what you want? - the way you want?

Perhaps you would like to know the person who grows your food?

How about joining the Kew/Kew East FOOD CO-OP...

• Be provided with clean organic/biodynamic fruit and vegetables
• Join a community of like-minded, concerned citizens spending their dollar ethically and sustainably
  
• Support a local farmer directly by avoiding the middleman whilst lowering food miles at the same time

Who to contact...

Razia: raziar@spin.net.au
Michelle: yang.michelle.ei@gmail.com

Submit an expression of interest..
Visit the farmgateway website

Kew / Kew East Food Co-op - a Transition Town Boroondara initiative.