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Sunday 1 June: two free workshops on home energy efficiency
Learn energy saving tips for your household and workplace with local sustainability experts.
Winter is the perfect season to get your greens in the ground and get your patch of dirt ready for spring planting. Come and learn the basics with local horticulturist Gary.
Apple Tree Winter Gathering
There’s a winter gathering and working bee happening at the old apple tree on Sunday the 18th of August.
When: 18th August from 10:30am – 1:30pm
What to bring: Gardening tools and gloves, some food or drink to share and enthusiasm to connect with your community.
Where: Cnr of Beaver St and Herbert St, Northcote – right next to the train line
Transition in the Pub! A year of living lightly…
Wednesday 24 July, 7:30-9:30pm
Zingara
875 High Street Thornbury
Come have a casual drink with TD peeps at Zingara’s cafe and hear local Darebin resident Paul Shelton talk about his family’s year of living lightly on the earth. Paul will discuss their experience with practical things such as household energy audits, creative low-impact crafts, gardening on the nature strip, getting rid of rubbish, and buying local.
You can check also out Paul and Nikki’s blog: www.treadinglightlyblog.wordpress.com
June TD Coord meeting
Monday 17th June
6:30 pm – shared dinner – bring a plate
7:00-8:30 pm TD coord meeting including project updates, working group report backs and general business
All welcome!
1/15 Ballantyne St Thornbury
Video from Share * Make * Mend
See the video on our facebook page via Global Sharing Day or directly from bambuser http://bambuser.com/v/3634609
We are in the Leader this week – come to Share Make Mend!
see all the details of Share Make Mend in the post below – see you there!
Share * Make * Mend
Sustaining Ourselves Workshop 19th May
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n the midst of all the work we do for our community and our world, sometimes we forget to nurture ourselves. Drawing on Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects, this full-day workshop will explore resilience in turbulent times. Set in the beautiful Darebin Parklands, this workshop will provide space to grieve, renew and empower those working for a better world.
This workshop is to support transitioners, permaculturalists, greenies, climate activists, environmentalists, upskillers, community developers, occupiers or diy-ers that are troubled by the state of the world, overworked, overstressed, disillusioned, despairing, burnt out, or on that path.
Children are warmly welcome. There will be children’s activities and childminding through the day.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
$20 full | $10 concession | children free
ONLINE BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
http://www.trybooking.com/CSCB
Join the facebook event.
Presented by Doing It Ourselves and Transition Darebin
Read about how participants found a similar workshop we ran in 2011.
May TD Coordination Meeting
Monday 20th May
6:30 pm – shared dinner – bring a plate
7:00-8:30 pm TD coord meeting including project updates, working group report backs and general business
All welcome!
Transition in the Pub
Wednesday 27 March, Tago Mago, 744 High St, Thornbury, from 8pm 
Join TD members for a drink and a chat and hear from another Transition group in the UK. We are lucky enough to have Jess from Transition Town Brixton to speak to us about their experiences with developing a local currency, the Brixton Pound. Perhaps we’ll even float the idea of a Darebin Dollar….
This year we plan to hold monthly Transition in the Pub get togethers on the last Wednesday of the month so come along, meet some members actively involved in transition and talk turkey.
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