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NEWSPAGE TRANSITION BRO DDYFI - THE BIG LAUNCH - 18th March 2010 On Thursday the 18th of March, Transition Bro Ddyfi welcomes everyone to its official Launch at Y Plas, Machynlleth, between 5.30 and 10.30pm . There will be locally sourced food available from 5:30 for people coming straight from work and the main event, starting at 6:30pm, will be an evening of celebration - of the Transition Movement as a whole and of the amazing projects and groups here in the Dyfi Valley that are working towards building and maintaining local resilience to the coming energy and climate-related challenges that we will all face.  The main event will feature a keynote
presentation by Rob Hopkins, a highly entertaining and inspiring
speaker, who founded the Transition Movement several years ago at
Kinsale in the Irish Republic. Rob has been involved with the Movement
pretty much full-time ever since, so if you want to find out about it
then he's the man to come and listen to! There will be a bar and a
variety of live acts as well as the opportunity to discuss what we're
doing.The Bro Ddyfi Transition Initiative, one of many local Transition Initiatives around the world, first began in 2007 as a way of exploring how we might respond as a community to the twin challenges of forthcoming oil shortages and of the effects of climate change. Transition Initiatives work at a grassroots level towards developing local resilience in the community: in short they focus on three "R's": Recognition - actually understanding the issues we face in the coming years of the 21st Century; Reskilling - regaining the practical life-skills that our grandparents took for granted and Relocalisation - the importance of local economic regeneration, especially with respect to food production. A complimentary event to follow the 'Big Launch' is taking place at Y Plas on Saturday the 20th of March: the Spring Open Day, starting at 11.00am till late. The day will be in three parts. It starts with a 'Be The Change Symposium', a lively, informative and engaging look at where we are, how we got here and where are we going. This is a real chance as a community to plan for a more sustainable, fairer and fulfilling future. Next, there will be a free showing of the award winning film, 'The Age of Stupid' - a poignant and inspiring wake up call to us all. In the evening there will be a twmpath, with music from local bands. Food and refreshments will be provided and there will be a bar in the evening. There is no charge for either of these events, but donations would be welcome. ********************************************************************************************************************************************* TRANSITION BRO DDYFI LAUNCHES ITS ONLINE INTERACTIVE AREA Transition Bro Ddyfi has an area on the social networking site, Ning. Why not join and get involved? Link: http://transitionbroddyfi.ning.com/ ********************************************************************************************************************************************* TRANSITION INTO SPRING? John Mason's thoughts on where we are at with the oil situation - and, further down the page, his experiences with garden-swap - where, with a few friends, a dense, tangled wilderness of over-head-height brambles and ornamental shrubs gone VERY wild indeed is being transformed into a (hopefully) working vegetable garden - see the photos at: http://www.geologywales.co.uk/storms/transition.htm |
