What is a Transition initiative? It's a grassroots process that helps a community become more resilient, more sustainable, more diverse, stronger, and happier.
Global Transition initiatives have created projects around food, energy, biodiversity, education, housing, waste, arts, and more - local responses to the global challenges of climate change, food sovereignty, biodiversity loss, economic hardship, etc. These small, local responses help show the way forward for governments, big business, and the rest of us.
And what is an Australian Transition initiative? Well, that is what we are about to discover....
Transition Oz is a blog for, by, and about those idealistic and passionate souls who are working to transition Australia to a brighter, more resilient, more sustainable future. It is mainly about sharing our stories, with the hope that together we can create a new "planetary story" for our communities, this unique land, and the planet.

Thursday 20 December 2012

Lessons from Life

Happy Summer Solistice everyone!
Well, imagine my surprise and delight after checking out the blog (after more than 3 weeks, yikes) and reading the two wonderful and interesting posts from John and Jan. I feel bad that I didn't realise they were there before now,  which leads me to expand on the title of this post... Lesson from Life: Remember not to try to start a new project at the end of the year!!! I was happily checking most every day in November, then just got so overwhelmingly busy with the end of the year stuff (being a teacher and a parent and a member of a trillion groups all of whom had to have AGMs before the end of the year!!) that the blog got pushed way down on the list.  But no matter, it feels like there is a lot of good will out  there about contributing and especially reading a Transition Oz blog - so we will just amble along and see where it gets us. Maybe some of you will have more time over the holidays to jot down a few words or comments on others musings.
My main goal over the holidays is to figure out how to publicise the blog more - and rig it so that whenever there is a post a whole bunch of us get notified that it's there. I think it might be time to call in one of my younger friends.....not that I am a Luddite, I just don't have the patience to work out all the nuances of social networking. I was told that what we should do is set up a Facebook page - the exact words were "blogging is going out, everyone just uses Facebook these days". Any comments or suggestions about that?
I will also send another email out to everyone with this same message......just to remind them to sign up to the blog if they want....
Well, enough of all that for now. Looking forward to growing this project into the new year. Here's to peaceful times for all over this lovely Australian summer.
Cheers
Lisa

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