Transition towns Orewa is hosting our next meeting with The Green Party at Centrestage in the lobby this Thursday May 29th at 7pm.

Come along and meet others who share your interest in providing solutions and building a resilient less oil dependent community.

Look forward to seeing you there

WAR, PEACE & OIL

Iran, Iraq, Burma, Nigeria? What makes all these countries ‘trouble spots’? Is it a coincidence that all of them have a lot of oil? What are the prospects for peaceful development as oil supplies begin to dry up?

How do we deal with the current threat the Bush administration poses to peace, human rights and energy security?

Keith Locke’s illustrated lecture examines these problems, and looks
to a more equitable world, using more sustainable energy.

Benji Woodman, good name for a bloke into trees, is pretty damn inspiring on this and the following two parts which are both on YouTube.

Benji runs the nursery - Forgotten Fruits - at Koanga gardens. He also runs courses on grafting , budding and how to grow trees and plants.

You can check out Koanga Gardens website here.

http://www.koanga.co.nz/

Check it out and get grafting.

George Monbiot, best selling author, Guardian newspaper columnist and outspoken environmentalist talks to Catherine Ryan on RNZ’s Nine To Noon. Monbiot has been writing articles about the negative environmental effects of Biofuels since 2004, not to mention the deaths due to starvation.

http://www.deepanimation.co.nz/multimedia/Biofuel_Debat.mov