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 [...]

RadioNZ’s Sunday Morning interview re: Transition Towns. (Audio below): http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/20090607 - has: “10:06 The Sunday Group: Transition Towns Taking Root
Transition Towns are spreading around New Zealand as communities face the prospect of dwindling oil reserves, an unstable climate and unpredictable food production. These are  communities that are rolling up their sleeves and taking practical action [...]

The TT NZ site has been updated. If you’re not part of Transition Towns Kapiti check out http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/. If you are check it out anyway.
Also, as part of the promotion of the new Australasian edition of The Transition Handbook Gabrielle Young, Rob Hopkins and James Samuel will be on Chris Laidlaws morning show this Sunday.

http://transitionculture.org/2009/05/21/the-powerdown-show-now-available-heret/
http://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/

We’re looking at our manual that was put together last year and resurrecting it so we can sell/give it away. If you want to have a look and add suggestions even put in bits for the missing parts, you are most welcome.
A Manual for Transitioning Kapiti

From the perspective of Peak Oil and Climate Change this sort of thing is a disastrous step backwards. Building resilience means supporting your local initiatives, getting involved with your local council, being part of a relocalisation of community. This could happen to Wellington Region and that includes Kapiti.

An amazing article has just been published in the New York Times, looking at Transition Towns. It has an example of an Alaskan town, with a wide-ranging population moving towards transitioning.  It takes a good look at community-building and concludes beautifully:
“For a wide range of not-always-consistent reasons, people in Sandpoint decided that Transition could help [...]