Brisbane Transition Hub

Welcome to the Brisbane Transition Hub. A Transition Initiative (which could be a town, village, university or island etc) is a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction. There are thousands of initiatives around the world starting their journey to answer this crucial que... stion: for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly rebuild resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil and economic contraction) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change )? So whats happening in Brisbane? There are several Transition Town initiatives in the Brisbane area . The Brisbane Transition Hub helps to establish and support these initiatives. These pages will tell you what the Brisbane Transition Hub and Brisbane Transition Town Initiatives are up to. We are targeting action on the twin and related issues of Climate Change and Peak Oil, as well as broader issues of sustainability. We feel that the Brisbane City Council (and indeed all levels of government here and world wide) are failing to plan for these issues adequately, and are therefore, our society is not sustainable. As such, we, as members of the Brisbane Community, aim to assist and work with Brisbane City Council to address these issues. It is early days yet, but we aim to work with the council, both at the officer and elected member levels. We are non party aligned. Councils can only push the sustainable agenda as much as the community will give them the mandate to do so. If you would like to be actively involved in the Transition Town Movement in Brisbane, please join our ning here . The Brisbane Transition Hub (which includes all Brisbane based Transition Initiatives and their members) role will be to fire up transition initiatives in the Brisbane area and maintain a role of inspiring, encouraging, registering, supporting, networking and possibly training those initiatives. The ...Read More