Some of our fellow groups are:
Transition Town global site - the Transition Town is a global movement begun by Robert Hopkins, a former Permaculture teacher, who created the first Energy Action Descent Plan in Kinsal, Ireland, as a sustainable response to Peak Oil and Climate Change challenges. See trailer of new movie. It is the fastest-growing environmental movement in the world.
Future Scenarios - David Holmgren's holistic, scenario based planning approach to the challenges and interactions of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
Permaculture Hunter Region - conducts community projects, issues newsletters, holds events and teaches Permaculture, which has the ethics of care for the earth and people, share surplus and limit consumption. PHR has a stall at the Farmers Markets, Broadmeadow on the 4th Sunday of each month. All are welcome to learn at our Permaculture Blitzes, where we plant a member's garden with food in 1 day, after s/he has worked on 6 other Blitz days, and supplies the materials - contact John on 4959-1350 or email jshiel@westnet.com.au.
Permaculture Sydney North - has many members with skills in self reliance, energy & water conservation, qualified permaculture design and teaching, including monthly meetings featuring world-class speakers, library and book sales, seedbank table, and a trash table.
Permaculture Research Insitute of Australia - is sited on a sub-tropics farm (under development) and undertakes world-renowned permaculture training and consulting by Geoff and Nadia Lawton. PRI runs Permaculture Design Courses (PDCs) and On-Ground Skills Training Camps, and allows those who have completed their PDC to stay and work on the farm in an internship capacity from a few months to two years.
David Holmgren - the co-founder of Permaculture with Bill Mollison and this is his website with eBooks, downloads and other publications.
Purple Pear - a biodynamics business with a sustainable agriculture 14 acre farm near Maitland. Families can subscribe to a box of food and it also teaches Permaculture with hands-on involvement on-site.
Hunter Organic Growers Society (HOGS) - a group of people who are interested in growing food organically, and have monthly field meetings.
Beanstalk Organic Food distribute ethically produced and ecologically sound produce from Morgan St, Newcastle directly from farmers and suppliers in the local region.
Hunter Organic Foods – Retail store with a large stock of organic foods and other related goods, at Mitchell & Caldwell Sts Merewether open 7 days/wk.
Hunter Biodynamics Group - conducts field days and information evenings with biodynamic practitioners at Hunter Valley farms and gardens. The bio-dynamic method is a new approach to agriculture based on advanced knowledge of the working of soil, plants, and farm animals, especially managing healthy soil.
Climate Action Newcastle - is a committed group of local residents from all backgrounds working together to address the single biggest issue facing humanity: climate change. It is organising a bulk buy of solar (PV) cells for your rooftop, to become your own power station (distributed power).
Lake Macquarie Climate Action Group - is another committed group of local residents that meet monthly at the Lake Macquarie Council in Speer Point to undertake Climate Change projects.
Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre -Promotes sustainable, healthy, pushbike transport, collecting and fixing unwanted bikes. Free things: parts, unfixed bikes, workshops, help, newsletters, traffic skills workshops (stop getting annoyed by cars). Also buy or borrow a working bike from the innovative Bike Library - Robert St, Islington, Fri & Sat's.
Crash Course from Dr Chris Martensen on Energy, Environment and the Economy, showing that growth in any finite system is unsustainable.
EcoDirectory - A directory of sustainable/green Australian websites, products, services, organisations and useful online resources, plus a guide to green living and eco-blogs. EcoDirectory is run on a voluntary basis and welcomes anyone interested in helping maintain the site.
Hunter Local Energy Trading System (LETS) -HunterLETS is a growing network of people from Maitland, Cessnock, Newcastle, the Central Coast and Hunter Valley of NSW, Australia whose members exchange a wide variety of goods and services using little or no cash. It is a method of trading which depends on energy, skills and time instead of money, exchanging a unit of local currency (Molly), not as an alternative to conventional money but to compliment the current system of trade.
Transition Sydney - is a group of Sydney people whose concern about the impact that climate change, fossil fuel depletion, and collapsing global trade and financial systems will have on our way of life calls us to do something practical about it. Action is needed at the local level to help communities transition to the new realities these forces will bring and to build their own local resilience, and it starts with a few people getting together and deciding to do something in their local area. Its aim is to be both a catalyst, a partner and an ongoing resource centre for local transition initiatives across the Sydney bioregion.
The Live Local website documents neighbourhood "experiments", stories about your experiences and adventures meeting neighbours, discovering neighbourhoods, improving your local economy, saving energy and making our air and water cleaner. Add text, photos and videos and see similar projects that provide new ideas and inspirations to make communities better while having fun.
If your sustainable or positive community group has similar goals to Transition Newcastle, post a comment and we may add it to the site in an appropriate place, or keep it for the Energy Descent Plan. Describe a little about your organisation, and any link to your website.
