A neglected strip of land on Francis Street in Bondi is quietly becoming a testing ground for what community led biodiversity restoration can look like. Each week, Kit from Transition Bondi and Patrick Franklyn from @ontheverge join a small group of residents to weed, plant and care for the site. Their focus is largely on…
Photo credit: @manic_seeds_media I was half asleep when the massive Kenworth Forestry Tasmania log truck rolled up to the gate of a logging coupe in the highlands of Lutruwita (Tasmania). We had set up camp under the cover of darkness. I shared a tent with a schoolteacher, while five others slept in their swags or…
ByKit
I hadn’t been to a long festival before, and this one – a Protestival – got me in. And it was a terrific! Rising Tide is a highly functioning mass movement, with a long history, and following in the tradition of other non-violent social change activism (see below). My main interest was to see how…
Recently, some of our Transition Bonding network and friends attended a workshop presented by Voices of Wentworth and held at Paddington RSL. The venue was big, as was the audience. If you missed out, or wish you had gone, take a look at the comprehensive links that were provided. If you would like to join…
Sarah K, designer and author was our presenter at February’s guest dinner. She spoke about her book How to Create Things for the World Sustainably. The book covers a comprehensive range of topics. It can appeal to people from many angles: economics ~ the circular economy and degrowth + capitalism/market forces philosophy ~ time, connection…
ByAudrey
More than a book club, a place to be heard, informed, and held by a sharing circle. This is not your usual book club, where everyone reads the same book and gives their opinion. This is more of a ‘let’s meet at my place and share what we know about climate change’. The magic happens…
By Jillian After our Guest Dinner on Bees, with young beekeeper Elliott Hanley, in mid November, we have astory to tell about one of the young people who attended.Aum (10 y.o.) was given a school project on bees where he had to present his knowledge, learningand understanding of bees in the form of bee hotel…
ByKit
INTRODUCTION Transition Bondi’s speaker in September, Ashley Wearne, had been involved in a development project in Africa for 10 years, foremost in Uganda. He outlined briefly some of the complexities that surrounded that big idea of bringing what we expect as a public service – electricity access – to a region where around 650 million…
ByKit
Laurie’s Vegetarian in Bondi Road recently closed. Wade, the owner, has been serving up fabulous, tasty food for 20+ years. Transition Bondi has loved his food as takeaway for our meetings for years and this is Kit’s poem of gratitude. How many meals has this man made,the one we know and love, called Wade? he’s…
For four years we’ve been keeping a little laneway nearby looking good. It’s a spot where rubbish might otherwise be dumped, and is now full of a variety of plants including edibles, exotic climbers and indigenous plants. The laneway is the track to a local primary school so we catch families on their way, and…
