permaculture

[Nicholas Roberts <nicholas@themediasociety.org>]

Australian permaculture funding for Transition movement

big budget permaculture... nice to see

I see that is what Mitra was asking about with scaling-up permaculture  -
answer, in urban areas its Transition Towns...

now we need a Transition Movement Broadacre - and we just need a campaign
and project plan for the rural version  ..

in Australia I am suggesting it be headed by John Sanderson and team Peter
Andrews, DOherty, Lawton, Holmgren, Mollison and others

perhaps with US participants



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Nicholas Roberts
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Toogood <ecoed@dodo.com.au>
Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Subject: Vic EPA's $2million funding Transition Towns!
To: William Vorobioff <wvorobioff@optusnet.com.au>, Tall Poppies <
tallpoppies@optusnet.com.au>, John Shiel <jshiel@westnet.com.au>, ross Brown
<ross@darksidemasks.com>, kt-b@comcen.com.au, Yvonne Nussbaumer <
swisschick13@hotmail.com>, Nicholas Roberts <nicholas@themediasociety.org>,
wallylumpkin@hotmail.com, nickmcclean@yahoo.com.au,
lisa_tattersell@hotmail.com


 Hi William, Maureen and other Perma-friends,  (& thanks Nicholas for richly
informative reports, the USA guys gave excellent advice on Perma-TV etc)



$2million from Victorian EPA…The biggest Aussie funding yet for Permaculture
strategies, which include Transition Towns as one of the most
holistic/comprehensive (another is the eco-village, really eco-social
village, over 100 examples globally, with Japan converting some golf courses
to build eco-villages).  Included was $250,000 for Dandenong local
government area's Transition Towns project….see attached I think.



That's as reported by my active Perma-colleague Joe Walker from
Bellingen/Coffs Harbour, who also, on the attached docs, has copies for us
of details of a NSW transition grant secured, over *$100,000 for Bellingen's
Perma-based Transition project*  (Joe is involved) from the NSW Enviro
trust  (Will, Maureen and I tried to get $75K from them for Newcastle
Transition but we didn't succeed….maybe we can learn from the Bellingen doc
attached).



Joe's mobile is 0438516351, email is mindtimespace@yahoo.com.  He'll be
visiting us at Gateshead late this Monday morning, if any of you want to
talk with him or Hear his Bellingen report.



Also, having talked with Will Vorobioff to-day, he'd appreciate PHR
involvement in Transition Towns activities this year. One way is for us to
include his presentation in our workshops, maybe he'll have time to write a
fuller hand-out with practical examples (e.g. from UK), we can handnd out at
Farmers Market, maybe you could include this on agenda for wed.



I got the impression from Joe that The groups that got Transition Towns
grants clearly presented their projects as majoring on practical Community
Permaculture, but I haven't read the attachments yet!

Yvonne, if u are sending invite to PHR members to the open committee meeting
Wed 6pm, maybe u could include brief summary of above news, also mention
Monday's

Herald article "Permaculture explained), & photo near the back of the paper.




Regards, Tom T


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*From:* Joe Walker [mailto:joewalker@y7mail.com]
*Sent:* Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:09 AM
*To:* ecoed@dodo.com.au
*Subject:* Fw: Greater Dandenong Edible Gardens Project (Transition Town)
info



Tom.



Finally in Newcastle. Haven't had a chance to e-mail. Here is the paper that
was presented which was used by locals at Coffs Harbour to successfully get
grant.



Joe Walker

M; 0438 516351



Will ring later today (Sat 31/10)



----- Forwarded Message ----
*From:* "Bill.Underwood@dpcd.vic.gov.au" <Bill.Underwood@dpcd.vic.gov.au>
*To:* joewalker@Y7mail.com
*Sent:* Thursday, 16 October, 2008 4:21:33 PM
*Subject:* Greater Dandenong Edible Gardens Project info


Hello Joe

Great to hear from you.  As promised, please see attached:

*1.  A simple flyer outlining what the project is about*


*2.  The paper about the Project I presented at the ICTC Conference in
Sydney on 8 October*


*3.  A sample flyer for one of our Permablitzs*


Happy to supply additional information if you require it.  Also happy to be
contacted by others that are interested in the Project.

Feel free to circulate the above attachments if you want.


Cheers

*Bill Underwood | Senior Project Manager*
Dandenong Development Board
Department of Planning and Community Development
314A Thomas Street Dandenong Victoria 3175*
*www.dpcd.vic.gov.au*
____________________________________________________________
T: *03 9238 4404* | M: *0400 083 419* | F:* 03 9794 5644 *|
*Email<bill.underwood@dpcd.vic.gov.au>

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