Invercargill

Welcome to the Transition Town Invercargill!

Transition Town Invercargill would like for Invercargill and Southland to be a resilient, truly sustainable, vibrant community of happy and healthy people who will live in a way that will protect the environment and ultimately enhance the quality of human lives everywhere.

Our aim is to support a transition of Invercargill - and Southland - communities into a lower-energy, lower-emissions future. To achieve this we wish to work with any individual, group or organisation with similar aims.

We made our first 'public' appearance in March 2009 with a series of film evenings, followed by two discussion evenings.  More recently, our winter/spring programme consiting of seven events, has been focused on practical skills useful in a lower-energy future.We have also written submissions to Invercargill and Environment Southland LTCCP 2009 - 2019, and to the NZ Government regarding the emissions reduction target. Click on the links below to see a list of our past events, notes and actions that arose from them.

Steering Group

Invercargill Transitions Towns has a small steering group which undertakes planning and organises events.  If you would like to join the group or get in touch with us please contact us at:

Email: transitioninvercargill@gmail.com

Phone: 03 217 8987

Members of the Steering Group:  Judith Robinson, Conan Sutherland, Terry Guyton and Rhiannon Suter.

It is intended that the steering group will dissolve or be replaced with an alternative group at an appropriate point in the growth of Transition Towns Invercargill.

You can download our brochure from the Attachments below.

You can also join the Transition Towns Southland Google Group:

http://groups.google.co.nz/group/transition-towns-southland?hl=en

More info:

Outcomes and actions - Notes of outcomes and actions from public meetings can be found here.

Events- Regional calendar of Invercargill events

Past events - List and details of our past events

Steering group minutes - Notes from meetings of the core group

Coming soon:

Community groups and resources - A list of initiatives which are building resilience in Invercargill - everything from permaculture to woodworking, environment centres to patchwork.

Please email us if you have any suggestions for information you would like to see on this website or anything which you think Transition Towns Invercargill should take forward.

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