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$10 jump overnight...holy cow. It kind of feels like we're on the brink of something.

As foreshadowed at our workshop last Sunday, the first Sunday we can get the Pak n Save Hall at KCC again for an Open Space on garden groups and time sharing is Sunday 6 July as above.

Hope this works for everyone who is interested.

The idea is that we would combine with Otaki to invite everyone in Kapiti from garden/horticulture/tree crop clubs and societies, KCDC members and staff, schools, Whitireia, community boards, Gray Power, U3A, - go thru Judith's list for any groups likely to have an interest in growing food locally. The open space day will allow people with a particular interest or passion to emerge and take responsibility for the various activities that arise. Its a natural way of organising things. No one is obliged to come. Whoever comes is the right people. Our task as organisers is to frame the question to be addressed, the inquiry, and invite the right people.

Best
Pam

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Gearing now for peak oil shock - Transition Towns Hutt

Gearing now for peak oil shock
Concerned residents bring Transition Town model to Hutt

SIMON EDWARDS - Hutt News | Tuesday, 03 June 2008

A movement that "stops the 'overwhelm'; the feeling 'but what can I do'? It's an opportunity for people to come from an individual standpoint and make a difference."

That's how Normandale resident Juanita McKenzie describes Transition Towns. It's a model in which community-based initiatives facilitate transition from a globalised, oil-dependent society to a resilient, re-localised society that can thrive in a world where there is less abundant cheap oil.
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Transition Towns Kapiti Workshop - 01/06/08

Kapiti Community Centre
Sunday June 1 2008, 2-4pm
Feedback from participants

Following a presentation on Climate change/Energy Descent by Andrew Rundle-Keswick four future scenarios were presented. Participants formed a group around each scenario and discussed these questions:

How can TTK best prepare and respond to this scenario?

What strategies will be most effective for each scenario?

Shocked! How the oil crisis has hit the world

By Andy McSmith, Jerome Taylor and Nigel Morris Saturday, 31 May 2008
British pensioners who cannot afford to heat their homes. European hauliers and fishermen whose livelihoods are under threat. Palestinians forced to fill up their cars with olive oil. Americans asked to go down to a four-day week.
All around the world, in a multitude of ways, the soaring price of oil is hurting rich and poor alike. For the lucky ones, it is simply a matter of changing their lifestyle. But those most vulnerable to the price of oil have been driven on to the streets in angry protests, which raise a fundamental question: what can we do to survive in a world where a barrel of oil costs $127 (£64)?
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Oil hits $134 US a barrel - 22/05/08

(Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose to a record above $134 a barrel as U.S. stockpiles unexpectedly dropped and banks raised price forecasts because of supply constraints and demand growth.

When will it stop? Who knows?