We completely oppose the construction of new expressways because we believe the price of oil is going to be on an upward trend from now on (probably with large spikes and falls due to factors like a deep global recession and increased speculation).We believe there should be an upgraded rail system. Money available for roading [...]

Present
Sharon
Dan
Andrew RK
Sam
Richard
Willie
Anna
Andrew Hall
Cree
Jim
Apologies
Pam
1. Possible visits to local property and forests.
Re: David Scott & QE Park designated a couple of people go and see
There are no real examples for us to see, only partial and related results.
Bena to investigate and action to coordinate
Ideas
QE Park
Gary and Emily’s place
Trevor’s place
Treecroppers association
place in Manakau
Kath Irvine’s place
Landcare.org.nz
Soil + [...]

Present
Richard
Anna
Andrew
Sharon
Sam
Bena
Dan
Willie
Pam
Isabel
Leadership
fine with rotating organisation. Andrew to be key point of contact for the moment.
Other Stuff of interest
David scott’s invitation to go to native forest tour passed over and carried to next meeting.
Meeting in regards to Lindale (Andrew and Willie attended)
Gossip about council providing land is positive. Sam established Key people within council
Purpose Brainstorming (Key ideas)

Self [...]

Roll over Community Gardens - Here comes TTK Community Food Forest
Premise
After an inspiring night watching the very entertaining and informative Geoff Lawton’s Establishing a Food Forest Documentary and a enthusiastic  discussion afterwards, Andrew come up with a fantastic idea, instead of having a community garden, having a Community Food Forest. His reasoning was that because [...]

Hi all,
We had an excellent weekend at the Sustainable Home and Garden Show in Kapiti. The weather was brilliant all weekend, so there was an awesome turnout on both days. Our tent was especially cool because we had living economies and not 1, not 2, but 3 Transition groups: TTKapiti, TT Otaki and the newly [...]

I’ll be at the Paraparaumu Library from 9am to 1pm handing out FREE energy saving lightbulbs as part of Earth Hour Promotion Saturday 28th March. Come on down, grab a light bulb, read some books, be enLIGHTened.
Cheers,
Sam
http://www.earthhour.org/

We’re running a fundraiser for light bulb drive in conjunction with the council, basically delivering 2 energy saving bulbs to every residence in paraparaumu. There are some other community groups involved, but if anyone wants to donate some of their time and deliver 2 light bulbs to 100 houses each, please either email me “sam [...]