T3.ie – Transition Town Tramore
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- PRESS RELEASE: 11.09.08 – Skilling Up for Power Down: ¬ Supporting the Transition to Resilient Communities
- PRESS RELEASE – September 25h 2008 – Transition Town Tramore Presents The Power of Community
- PRESS RELEASE – November 4th 2008 – Transition Town Tramore Presents Permaculture & the Kitchen Garden; a talk by Graham Strouts
- PRESS RELEASE – November 4th 2008 – Transition Town Tramore Presents Permaculture & the Kitchen Garden; a talk by Graham Strouts
- What’s T3?
What’s T3?
T3 is Transition Town Tramore.
T3 is a community based initiative – part of a wider international Transition Town movement – that operates as a bottom-up, local approach to preparing for the challenges of life after cheap oil, and a changing climate. Its strength lies in the opportunity it offers for local participation on a variety of levels, from power generation, and energy efficiency at one end of the scale to growing your own vegetables, or herbs in a window box at the other.
Please join us and get involved in positive local projects to make Tramore a more sustainable and resilient town. Do you think you would like to get active about local food, climate change, community development? If so please come along to one of our meetings or contact us here at info@t3.ie.
The new Transition Network BETA website has been lauched in March 2010, which keeps all the essential information and links about transition in one place. Check it out!
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WATCH the NEW TRANSITION FILM below!
In Transition 1.0 from Transition Towns on Vimeo.
T3 began in May 2008. It has organised a range of events, including a range of invited speakers, an energy show supporting local businesses enabling energy efficiencies and CO2 reduction, and kick started the creation of GIY Tramore – a popular local food growing group. Three members of the Tramore group have done the Transition Training course and one has completer the Trainers Training course. We need many more people with a wide range of experience and skills.
What are the objectives of T3?
- To build up resilience and develop the capacity within the community to prepare for the transition away from dependence on fossil fuels to a safe and sustainable future.
- To ensure a supply of fresh local food; to support local farmers and food producers
- To relearn from our elders how to grow our own.
- To develop community solutions to reducing carbon emissions.
- To protect our local environment, its ecosystems and biodiversity.
Positive Local Solutions
The emphasis is on “local” and “small-scale”. Far from focusing on a“doom-and-gloom” scenario, a transition initiative presents a vision of hope for the future and the prospect of a society which in many ways is better and healthier than the present.
Getting more people involved in producing food in their own back garden or in allotments is one of the key goals of the transition movement.
There is no blue-print for a Transition Town – each community works to find its own solutions. What will ours be?
Useful websites:
Transition towns
- http://www.transitiontowns.org/
- http://transitionculture.org/
- http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com
- www.cultivate.ie
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