Welcome to CANWin

CANWin (Climate Action Now! Wingecarribee), a non-partisan community group, welcomes your participation in taking action to minimise climate change. By registering your email address you become an associate member and are enabled to comment on our Blog page. If you contribute the membership fee of $20 per year, you become a full member with voting rights and also are enabled to add new topics to the blog page.

Note that the Blog page is unmoderated, and CANWin does not vouch for the accuracy of information to be found there. For reliable, reviewed technical information, go to the “Research” page.

Don’t miss the CANWin QUARTERLY SPEAKER NIGHT 17th July!

Interested in understanding and working with key factors that enable Sustainability, Resilient communities and Transformation?   Join Professor Stuart B. Hill for his presentation “Deeply Engaging Communities in Their Journeys Toward Sustainability” on the evening of Friday 17th July, 7.30pm, Wingecarribee Council Theatrette, Moss Vale, , followed by discussion and light supper.

Professor Stuart B. Hill, Foundation Chair of Social Ecology (University of Western Sydney), has a background in chemical engineering, ecology, soil biology, entomology, agriculture, psychotherapy, education, policy development and international development.

ABSTRACT: “Deeply Engaging Communities in Their Journeys Toward Sustainability”

Appropriate next steps are deeply personal and highly context specific. This is why formulaic, centrally-directed and imposed change always fails to achieve its stated aims, and invariably causes more problems than it solves.

Consequently, the collaborative ‘change agent’ task is to design and implement institutional and community structures and processes that can enable those involved to take those appropriate next steps, and to evaluate, celebrate and learn their way forwards as they go.

The aim of this presentation will be to support this process through challenge, inspiration and the  sharing of relevant theory and practice.

TRANSITION TRAINING  - SIGN ON FOR AUGUST!

TRAINING FOR TRANSITION workshop Bowral 8th & 9th August
…to inspire, encourage, & inform  people in the Transition process.

The Transition Town movement offers an opportunity to create a future that is abundant, sustainable and resilient as we stand at this critical time. Our response to the global challenges of climate change and peak oil will shape the lives of generations to come.

Transition Shire Wingecarribee recently hosted the national Transition Training workshops given by the UK trainers who have prepared local groups to deliver this exciting program which offers an inspiring vision and action plan for the transition to a low-carbon future in socially connected, resilient communities.

What you can expect at the Transition Training Workshop:

  • an in-depth experiential introduction to Transition
  • an inspirational/energetic boost that will empower and propel you as a powerful Transition catalyst in your community
  • connection with others who are responding to the call for Transition

This 2-day fundamentals course is designed for people thinking of creating a Transition Town group or those  already in a group working towards becoming a Transition Town,.  It is for those wishing to know how to set up, run, and maintain a successful transition initiative in their locality. The course is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to delve into both the theory and practice of Transition.

For more information see Transition page on CANWin website

Register (by 22nd July) - please contact: Sandra at menteith@bigpond.net.au or phone 0403 790 777.

Click here to read the February issue of Transition Shire News

Click here to read the November issue of Transition Shire News

PATHS FORWARD

If you missed the Revisioning Workshop you missed some stimulating discussion about CANWin’s objectives for 2008. Included for discussion were papers by two of our members. These can be downloaded by clicking on their title below.

Strategy Motion

Where to from Here


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