TTKD Nov 2013 meeting: Sustainable Local Food

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TTKD October meeting: The Story of Stuff

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October 2013 TTKD Meeting

The Story of Stuff

Thursday October 17

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start

Kenmore Library Meeting Room

TTKD Sept 13 Meeting: Fossil Fuels and Alternatives

TTKD Meeting Flyer Sept 13

Fossil Fuels and Alternatives 

Thursday September 19 

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start 

Kenmore Library Meeting Room 

Lloyd Hamilton will present information on fossil fuels, and Will Booth will present information from 350.org on the impact of these fuels and alternatives.

As usual the meeting will be followed by supper and conversation. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share (preferably locally produced or homemade!). No need to RSVP.

TTKD August 2013 Meeting: Healthier waterways for a resilient SEQ

Thursday August 15 

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start 

Kenmore library meeting room 

Moggill Markets

This Saturday (3rd of August) we'll be holding an information and produce bring and swap stall at the Moggill Markets. So if you have any produce you'd like to bring, or swap, come see us. Hope to see you there. 

TTKD July 13 Meeting: Edible Yards with Sarah Wesche

TTKD July 2013 Meeting - Edible Yards with Sarah Wesche by TransitionKenmore

Thursday July 18

 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start 

 Kenmore Library Meeting Room

As usual the meeting will be followed by supper and conversation. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share (preferably locally produced or homemade!). No need to RSVP.

TTKD April meeting- Permaculture: Sustainable Food

TTKD March Meeting: Waste Management: Past, Present and Future

 Deana Nichols is Brisbane City Council's Waste Management Education Officer - she will give us a comprehensive insight into waste management in Brisbane.

TTKD Meeting Flyer Mar 13 2013

Thursday March 21

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start

Kenmore Library Meeting Room

TTKD October meeting: Men's Shed (not so secret) Men's Business!

Chris Wright from Shed West Kenmore will discus the role of Men's Sheds in promoting men's health and wellbeing and helping to create sustainable communities.



*What are Men's Sheds all about?

*What do they get up to in there?

*How can Men's Sheds help towards a sustainable community?

Thursday October 18

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start

Kenmore Library Meeting Room

TTKD Meeting Flyer Oct 12

TTKD September Meeting: Microalgae Biofuels

Thursday 20 Sept

Kenmore Library Meeting Room 

Kenmore Village corner Moggill and Brookfield Roads 

7.15 for 7:30 pm start 

Light refreshments provided 

TTKD Meeting Flyer Sept 2012

TTKD at the Moggill Markets

Transition Town Kenmore District will be holding a stall at the Moggill Markets on Saturday 1 September. Information will be provided on what Transition Kenmore is, what it is all about, what we try to achieve and how people can benefit from our meetings and network. The stall will also provide a backyard garden products exchange service – so bring along any surplus fruit, veggies or plants from your garden to swap for something else. We would also appreciate donations of backyard produce to sell (by donation) to those without anything to swap. 

Please only bring edible or native plants and please make sure the soil is free from fire ants as required by Queensland government regulations – see here.

The stall will also be offering native plants and trees from the Moggill Creek Catchment Group, a local land care group.

Proceeds from sales will go towards printing expenses.

Moggill Markets is a local farmers market held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month at 550 Brookfield Rd from 6.30am till 11.00am.

Hope to see you there.

Transition Kenmore June 2012 Meeting: Backyard Beauties/Bushland Bullies!

This month we are very pleased to have Andrew Wills, Program Officer Invasive Species and Animal Management for the Brisbane City Council present on the topic of garden plants overstepping their boundaries.

He will inform us about the potential for Garden plants to invade, modify and threaten native vegetation communities. We will hear how such plants can be so deceptively beautiful in the garden setting, and equally can have devastating impacts on our native vegetation communities as a whole.

Thursday June 21 

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start

Kenmore Library Meeting Room

As usual the meeting will be followed by supper and conversation. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share. No need to RSVP.

Transition Kenmore May 2012 Meeting: Permaculture and Organic Gardening, Part 1

We are fortunate to have the very knowledgeable Bruce Ham deliver a talk on permaculture and organic gardening.  Bruce will introduce permaculture, discus characterising soils, and identifying soil improvement strategies.

He will pose the following questions:

What do we want to do?
How do we get started?

This meeting will be the first of two permaculture meetings. In June we will have an education officer from Northey Street discussing permaculture at the Northey Street city farm, and how permaculture fits into the Transition movement.

Thursday May 17

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start

Kenmore Library Meeting Room

As usual the meeting will be followed by supper and conversation. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share. No need to RSVP.

TTKD April Meeting: Making Brisbane a Cycling City

DIY Brisbane -

A low-cost high-impact action plan of how we can all work together to make Brisbane a Cycling City

Presented by Rachel Smith

Thursday April 19

7.15pm for a 7.30pm start

Kenmore Library Meeting Room

The talk will include:

·         Why cycling isn’t in Brisbane’s DNA

·         What Brisbane women (and men!) really want 

·         Targeting the right ‘target’ audience

·         How we can make cycling in Brisbane safer than sitting on the sofa

·         What we can learn from Jamie Oliver

·         Daring to share and sharing success

·         The peer produced city

·         Bottom–up self-organising

·         Emotions and engineering


We are lucky to have Rachel Smith present this months meeting. Rachel is a Principal Transport Planner within AECOM and one of Australia’s leading practitioners of sustainable transport. She has led the active transport team on most of the major transport infrastructure and policy development projects in Queensland. Rachel is part of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a mobile laboratory travelling to nine cities over six years led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in urbanism, architecture, technology and sustainability. The Lab addresses issues of contemporary urban life and its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation, and ultimately the creation of forward-thinking solutions for city life. Rachel was nominated by Enrique Penalosa, the former Mayor of Bogota. Rachel is the Founder and Creative Director of ‘Cycling Super Highways’ a vision for 7 metre wide cycleways completely separated from parked and moving cars, Co-Creator of Lazy Sunday Cycle, a crowd-sourced social-media cycling initiative, a freelance writer for multimedia in the UK, USA, China and Australia, a blogger at This Big City and Cycling Rachel Smith, on the curatorial panel for Queensland Arts art + place and guest lecturer at the University of Queensland.

As usual the meeting will be followed by supper and conversation. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share. No need to RSVP.

Transition Kenmore at the Moggill Markets

Some pictures of Transition Town Kenmore's successful stall at last weekends Moggill Markets.

Photos and captions by Gary

The Stall

These look interesting

Buying some plants

Having a chat

See you there again soon!

TTKD March Meeting: Sustainable Home Energy Use – The Facts

How many times have you heard the myth that solar energy won’t work unless your roof is facing north, or that more energy is used in making solar power systems than they ever produce?  In his presentation energy and sustainability expert Dr David Mills, will shed light on these and many other myths.

Dr Mills will also discuss what you can do, by showing where the best home energy savings can be found and how you can achieve a zero carbon home for zero cost.

We all want to use less energy without sitting in the dark, so whether you want to save the environment, save on your electricity bill, or both, our march meeting is sure to be illuminating.

 Thursday March 15
7.15pm for a 7.30pm start
Kenmore Library Meeting Room

Background: Dr David Mills

 

Dr David Mills has a Honours Degree in Environmental Science with a major in Environmental Policy and Economics and a PhD from UQ on the potential for renewable energy in Australia.

David has numerous publications on sustainability issues and has expertise in understanding how energy is used at the household level and looking at what households can do to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as knowledge of; greenhouse policy, energy industry reform, renewable energy, water savings measures, building regulations, impact assessment and broader sustainability issues.

David was responsible for developing Queensland’s sustainable housing regulations and has been instrumental in a range of sustainability initiatives including water savings requirements for new housing and commercial buildings, thermal energy performance standards and the proposed phase out of electric hot water systems. His work in Government and commitment to the environment has been acknowledged through multiple awards.

David held the position of secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australia and New Zealand Solar Energy Society (ANZSES) for over 11 years. He was the Convener of the last ANZSES solar energy conference held in Brisbane, Solar 2000. 

Catch Transition Kenmore at the Moggill Markets

Transition Kenmore will be back at the Moggill Markets this Saturday the 3rd of March. We'll be swapping and selling produce from our own gardens and talking about Transition. So feel free to come and say hi.

For those not familiar, the Moggill Markets is our local farmers market held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month at 550 Brookfield Rd from 6.30am till 11.00am. So if you like buying "straight from the paddock" in a relaxed setting you should check it out.

Some of us at Transition Kenmore fancy ourselves as backyard farmers and so our stall gives us the chance to provide a backyard garden products exchange service and offload surplus mangoes, pumpkins and saplings etc! For any other backyard farmers out there, bring along your surplus fruit and veggies or plants from your garden to swap for something else or sell to those without anything to swap.

If anyone wants to help us promote TTKD by helping man our stall, or if you have some produce from your garden you would like to swap or sell please contact us at: transitionkenmore'at'gmail.com

See you there!

February Transition Town Kenmore Meeting: Keeping Chickens

Keeping chickens and enjoying fresh backyard eggs is becoming more and more popular. Would you like to learn about keeping chickens in your backyard? 

This month we are lucky enough to have Andrew O’Hara from Backyard Chooks in Moggill coming to speak to us.
Andrew is passionate about beautiful heritage chickens, and is keen to share information on all you need to know about taking care of your own.

As usual the meeting will be followed by supper and conversation. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share.

Thursday February 16
7.15pm for a 7.30pm start
Kenmore Library Meeting Room

Sustainability and Environmental Engineering Conference

Escaping Silos

The Society for Sustainability and Environmental Engineering (SSEE) brings you the SSEE 2011 International Conference in Brisbane on the 24-26 October 2011 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.

'Escaping Silos' will showcase pragmatic examples of actions that have overcome change resistance and the elements that contributed to the breakthroughs; engaging business leaders, scientists, politicians and educators that are influencing sustainability within engineering. Local and global integrated solutions across professions, industry sectors and communities will be highlighted, addressing the impact of economic policy and social directions.

The conference will deliver a dynamic and thought provoking combination of renowned international and national speakers, including:
Annie Leonard author of the Story of Stuff
Paul Gilding author of The Great Disruption
Amanda McKenzie AYCC founder
Krista Milne City Design
Carol Boyle University of Auckland

http://www.ssee2011conference.com/

1.5 hour Q&A panel sessions from $25* - Discussion forums with industry leaders in Sustainability

These Question & Answer sessions are designed to engage you directly with the innovative viewpoints of world renowned sustainability leaders, aiming for new thinking outside the box in cross-sector integration and delivery of organisational value. The sessions will adopt an interactive format, where attendees can post questions before hand, the moderator will launch the discussion and guide it through some of the more challenging terrain posed by the audience.
Day 1 – 24th October - Silo? What Silos? With Annie Leonard
Day 2 – 25th October - Which Way out? With Paul Gilding

*Q&A Session Cost:
Conference delegate................. included
Student/Unemployed/Retired....... $25.00
SSEE & EA Member...................... $35.00
Non-Members.............................. $40.00
Conference non-delegates may register through the Engineers Australia Qld Division website: http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/divisions/queensland-division/events/

Q&A session: Silos? What Silos?
Date: MONDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2011
Time: 3:15 for 3:25 Start
Venue: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
To create a sustainable future we need to understand the silos that limit us, so we can escape them. This session explores why and how we build them in the first place. Engage with Annie Leonard (Author of The Story of Stuff), Professor Ian Lowe (Australian Conservation Forum President), Richard Sanders (Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy), Bruce Mitchell (Mitchell Builders), Nadga Kunz, among others.

Annie Leonard - Author of The Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard, brings her international perspective on sustainability across industries, materials life cycle and emissions trading approaches, providing practical tools to ‘escape silos’: seeing the big picture, understanding connections across systems, and embracing new sustainable approaches to transform our societies. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Q&A session: Which way out?
Date: TUESDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2011
Time: 2:45 for 2:55 Start
Venue: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
To meet the challenges we need clear answers to some big questions. This session explores the mechanics of creating the changes defined during the conference. The challenge of creating a sustainable future is so large and the nature of the problems so fundamental, it is critical that we break out of our current thinking to design new solutions. Engage with Paul Gilding (Author of The Great Disruption), Matthew Wright (Executive Director of Beyond Zero Emissions), Cath Bremner (Chief Operating Officer, Low Carbon Australia), David Hood - National President Elect Engineers Australia & Chair of Australian Green Infrastructure Council).

Paul Gilding - Author of The Great Disruption
Paul Gilding, brings compelling insights to the ‘very important engineering sector audience’, from his entrepreneur experiences as the founder and director of a successful world leading organisation in corporate sustainability strategy. Also, as a sustainability advocate, Paul outlines steady-state economy impacts on enhanced business productivity and communities’ connectedness. “It’s time to stop just worrying about climate change” says Paul Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet’s ecosystems and resources.

AngliGreen Meeting and Old Friary Open House

Sunday 23 October 2011, 10am to 4pm

The next AngliGreen meeting will be held in conjuction with an Open House at the Brookfield Centre to remember the Old Friary. The day commences at 10am and will have a festival feel with folk singing, Taize music, a harp recital, story telling, art work and much more. AngliGreen will have their office open and will also be selling plants. The meeting will commence at 2pm with Dick Jones speaking on weed control.

Location : Brookfield Centre for Spirituality, 139 Brookfield Rd, Kenmore Hills
Contact : angligreen@angligreen.org.au or Ann Ellis 3312 0207

http://angligreen.org/

Vera Street Community Garden Workshop: Building the Soil, Preventing Pests

Sunday 23 October 2011, 1.30 to 3.30pm


You are invited to the final of Vera Street Community Garden’s three-part series of permaculture-based workshops. This month’s workshop will cover improving the soil in your garden to promote healthy plants, prevent pest and predator problems and control weeds. There will be guidance on composting and recycling in your garden.

Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members (includes membership if desired).
RSVP: by email needarts@tpg.com.au, or call Gillian on 3871 3139 (after hours).

Hands-on workshop! Please wear covered shoes and a hat.
Proudly Supported by The Lord Mayors Suburban Initiative Fund and The Councillor for Toowong Ward

http://www.verastreetgarden.org/