Sustainable Community Development: a Basic Principle Building from Strengths

Updates regarding upcoming events

Here is the link to a recording of our second Zui (a zoom hui – thanks to John Peet for the new term).

Below is the list of questions posed after the video. As promised we are sharing them with all participants, along with some replies below.

There are many great questions posed, reflecting that we seem to have a well informed and action oriented group. Many of these questions could take volumes to adequately address, so please forgive the brief replies. As we proceed with more zoom meetings we can explore many of these issues together more thoroughly.

Lucie and Jack

The Science, Research and Technology Group has chosen the topic of Energy Descent to present to you because we believe it is an issue that is both highly relevant to what we do collectively about climate change, and an issue that is generally ignored. The basic concept is quite simple but the details are complex and highly technical.

Here is the recording of the Economy of Enough webinar from 12 August that captures both the video and questions and comments.

One of the ways we would like to honour the memory of Jeanette Fitzsimons is to continue her work in promoting an Economy of Enough. From her maiden speech in Parliament Jeanette talked about this idea and continued to raise consciousness about its benefits long after she left politics.

This morning about 10 climate activists showed up at Downstream 2020, the electricity industry’s annual celebration of its progress over the past year. Here I explain the meaning of four of the signs that were carried.

Heal the planet! By using the sun’s energy to rebuild the plant and animal systems we have destroyed.

To honour Jeanette and what she stood for, we are establishing new Climate Action Grants. Each year we will offer two grants of up to $5000 each to a young person or a youth organisation who wish to innovate, promote and implement things that Jeanette worked on and are promoting the good stuff and stopping the bad stuff as reflected in Our Climate Declaration.