Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) is looking at Transition Around The World at its first monthly Thursday Forum for 2013.
Whilst SLA is very much an independent local Armidale organization, with its roots firmly in this community, it owes some of its inspiration to the Transition Movement, which started in the UK a few years ago, in response to Peak Oil and climate change. It suggested a model using community development to work towards a future beyond fossil fuels.
SLA will be screening a recent film: In Transition 2.0 which tells 16 inspiring stories from 7 countries, where communities have responded to uncertain times with solutions and optimism.
The film starts in the UK, and ranges from New Zealand to Japan, India to Italy, and tells stories of local communities, sometimes as small as a group of neighbours in one street, sometimes a group of villages or a whole town, getting together and working out how to face the major issues of climate change and achieve resilience for their community.
Many of the ideas of the transition movement have taken real shape in Armidale – an increasing number of people are growing some of their own food; we now have a thriving community garden; there’s a farmers’ market; people are more aware of their energy use; our Council is serious about waste management; there’s moves towards locally-owned renewable energy; and local businesses are promoting ‘locals for locals’.
There’s a saying among people who accept that big changes have to happen if we are to have a livable future. It goes like this: “If we wait for governments to make the changes, it will be too little too late. If we only make changes as individuals, it will be too little. But if we join together as a community, we may have a chance.”
The next SLA Thursday Forum Transition Around the World will be held on 7th February at 7pm at Kent House, 141 Faulkner Street (opposite Central Park). Everyone is welcome, light refreshments, gold coin donation appreciated. www.slarmidale.org
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