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…
Rachel’s Farm, a film on regenerative agriculture. Showing at Randwick Ritz, Mon-Wed August 7 – 9 (daytime). Special Screening with Q&A on Tue 22 August, 6.30pm. By Chris Miliotis The main focus to reach net zero by 2050 is primarily to decarbonise a number of sectors which are currently heavy greenhouse gas emitters, through switching to renewables . While…
ByKit
Transition Bondi only happens because of a network of volunteers and their ongoing efforts. On the occasion of Volunteers’ Week 2023, here’s a homage to each of them. GloriaWorks extremely hard behind the scenes. I wanted to propose her for a local heroes award, but she doesn’t live in the area so not eligible. She…
ByAudrey
Adapted from an article by Audrey Eagan – May 2023 It’s the seventh year Bob Brown Foundation has invited artists from all over Australia to immerse in Takayna/Tarkine rainforest (West Tasmania). Scott Jordan, a senior campaigner at Bob Brown Foundation welcomes us and explains that the Tarkine area has several sites / habitats under threat…
