Websites and Blogs
Transition Newcastle on facebook
International Transition Sites
The Transition Towns Network - Our guides and thought-leaders in local energy descent planning
Transition Culture - Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins' site
Transition US - The national Hub for Transition initiatives in United States
Transition Ireland & Northern Ireland - Hub for Irish Transition initiatives
Future Scenarios - Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren's seminal thinking
The Post-Carbon Institute - (includes the Post-Carbon Cities and Relocalization networks)
The Beginners Guide to Peak Oil - a very comprehensive Peak Oil information site
Australian Blogs
Little Eco Footprints - an engaging blog by Tricia, a Newcastle blogger, discussing her attempts at reducing her ecological footprint
SustainingCommunity - a blog by Graeme, Transition Newcastle's convenor, exploring community engagement, sustainability and the strengths perspective.
Information Sites
Transition Decade - A coalition of many groups
Association for the Study of Peak Oil - Australian section
The Energy Bulletin - A great site with information in many related topics
Crude Oil Peak - A site with great oil-peak information and lots of Sydney specific commentarys
How to Live - Free At Last - Free on-line book from Dr Patrick ffyske Howden containing 150 life-support systems for Sustainable Home Engineering (SHE)
Miiu (Me-You) - A Resilience-focused Community wiki, cataloguing resilient local resources.
Australian Transition Town Initiatives
Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre - Australia's first official Transition Town initiative
Other Local Groups
Permaculture Hunter - Meets at Elderly Citizen's Centre, Laing St, Newcastle, at 6:30pm on 3rd Wednesday of each month. Covers Lower and Upper Hunter districts.
Details of local community gardens
Other Australian Climate-Energy-Food Contacts
Alternative Technology Association - promoting energy saving and conservation to households
Australian City Farms and Community Gardens - national body of community gardening organisations
Sydney Food Fairness Alliance - responding to the issues of food security and food equity in our sydney region
Global Youth Futures - Connect.Collaborate.Create
Slow Food Sydney - Much more than the opposite of fast food
Eat the Suburbs! - Great name and excellent information on this Melbourne site
Aussies Living Simply - a network of people doing it and sharing experiences and information
Australian Community Foods - A great site for finding local city farms, farmers markets, community gardens and local food outlets
MyKyoto - Sign your own Kyoto Protocol and reduce your emissions
Permaculture Research Insitute - Geoff lawton's website, with an international focus. Permaculture TV - A permaculture website with a video technology focus.
The Community Economies Collective is an ongoing collaboration between academic and community researchers and activists in Australia, North America, Europe and South East Asia. The goal of the Collective is to theorize, discuss, represent and ultimately enact new visions of economy. A selection of conferences papers are available at http://www.communityeconomies.org/Publications/Conference-Papers
