Transition Initiatives Explained

dublin | environment | event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 10:54 by Liamo

Organised by Cultivate and Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland
Sunday 6th December | 16.00 - 18.30 | €10.00 | Cultivate at The Greenhouse (The former ENFO building), St Andrews Street, Dublin 2

A Transition Initiative is a community of people working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"

TIMETABLE:

16.00 Introducing Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland

Introducing and exploring the links between different training programmes that can help us make the transition to local resilience. This session is for all those involved in delivering education and training. The following initiatives will be introduced...

Transition Training
Community Powerdown
Community Resilience – Training for Sustainability and Leadership
EU Learning Partnership – Transition to Local Resilience
Global Action Plan
Transition Together

16.30 Media and Presentation by Davie Philip: 'Community Resilience'

17.00 Screening of ‘In Transition: from oil dependency to local resilience’ The first Dublin Screening of the new film, 'In Transition" a 50 minute-long documentary about the Transition process around the world.

18.00 Discussion: 'Getting Into Transition'

18.20 Close Going Further