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Welcome to Transition Towns Maroondah – the local communities of Maroondah responding positively to the challenges of climate change and resource depletion. Please browse the tabs at the top of this page to find out more about us, how to be involved and what’s happening next.

 

Links: A. Localised Economy

  • Croydon Food Swap and Gardening On-line discussion group for Croydon Food Swap and Gardening. But see What’s On for details of swap.
  • Eastern Suburbs Warranwood LETS LETS stands for Local Energy Trading System and is a worldwide organisation. Swap your lawn mowing skills for someone else’s cooking – uses a points system.
  • Freecycle ‘Changing the world one gift at a time’ Offer and receive secondhand items locally.
  • Ground to Ground Recycling coffee grounds would have to be one of the easiest ways to make a difference, and for anyone interested in gardening, composting, vermiculture, or just environmental awareness, this site can show you how to get involved for all our benefit.
  • REconomy Tools to help build a new kind of economy. The way our economy works today is placing a huge strain on the global supply of natural resources, which reduces the availability and ultimately increases the costs of energy, raw materials and manufactured good
  • Simplicity Institute The Simplicity Institute seeks to facilitate the rapid transition away from growth-based, consumer societies toward sustainable and more rewarding societies based on material sufficiency.
  • The Simplicity Collective The Simplicity Collective is a grassroots ‘network of imaginations’ dedicated to creatively exploring, promoting, and celebrating a materially simple but inwardly rich life. Our planet needs us to explore alternative ways to live, and one promising wa

Links: B. Food

  • Community Harvest
  • Croydon Food Swap and Gardening On-line discussion group for Croydon Food Swap and Gardening. But see What’s On for details of swap.
  • Cultivating Community Cultivating Community is about people, communities, gardening, farming, the environment and food. Our core purpose is to provide access to healthy, culturally appropriate food for people and families living on low incomes in the context of a whole of comm
  • Eastern Suburbs Warranwood LETS LETS stands for Local Energy Trading System and is a worldwide organisation. Swap your lawn mowing skills for someone else’s cooking – uses a points system.
  • Ground to Ground Recycling coffee grounds would have to be one of the easiest ways to make a difference, and for anyone interested in gardening, composting, vermiculture, or just environmental awareness, this site can show you how to get involved for all our benefit.
  • Local Food Connect Find out how to set up a local food swap and more. Local Food Connect is an umbrella group for a range of local food-related community groups and social enterprises.
  • Local Harvest Find good food close to you – on a map
  • Permaculture Melbourne a member-based non-profit association established in 1981 to promote the sustainable development of Melbourne. It has grown to become an umbrella organisation supporting a range of local and special interest groups with membership across Victoria.

Links: C. Re-skilling

  • Croydon Food Swap and Gardening On-line discussion group for Croydon Food Swap and Gardening. But see What’s On for details of swap.
  • Eastern Suburbs Warranwood LETS LETS stands for Local Energy Trading System and is a worldwide organisation. Swap your lawn mowing skills for someone else’s cooking – uses a points system.
  • Permaculture Melbourne a member-based non-profit association established in 1981 to promote the sustainable development of Melbourne. It has grown to become an umbrella organisation supporting a range of local and special interest groups with membership across Victoria.
  • Simplicity Institute The Simplicity Institute seeks to facilitate the rapid transition away from growth-based, consumer societies toward sustainable and more rewarding societies based on material sufficiency.
  • Why Skills Learn or teach skills – from beekeeping to sustainable house design

Links: D. Energy

Links: E. Sustainable Transport

  • Bicycle Network Victoria Bicycle Network Victoria is a charity that promotes the health of the community. We work with our supporters to get ‘More People Cycling More Often’ and measurably grow the bike riding world.
  • Undriving Get your UNdriving licence here! Lots of great ideas and stories. ‘The mission of Undriving (TM) is to activate people’s innate curiosity, creativity, and resourcefulness to make more conscious, active transportation choices.’
  • Victoria Walks Great tips, information and resources to inspire more people to walk every day.

Links: F. Awareness Raising

  • Croydon Conservation Society Croydon Conservation Society is a non profit community volunteer group, who since 1964 have been actively “conserving” the best of our local environment for us all to share, as well as planting native species in many locations to keep us and our local
  • Global Arts Collective Gifted practitioners in the liberal, performing and visual arts present the big ideas that take us beyond the surface of our troubles, to the source of our joy and ingenuity, and present a catalyst for solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
  • Ground to Ground Recycling coffee grounds would have to be one of the easiest ways to make a difference, and for anyone interested in gardening, composting, vermiculture, or just environmental awareness, this site can show you how to get involved for all our benefit.
  • Heathmont Bushcare Local group committed to the preservation and conservation of the remnant bushland in Heathmont. Hold regular working bees.
  • One Million Women 1 Million Women – A campaign of daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers – Committed to protecting our climate, our communities and our future, leading change for the better.
  • Simplicity Institute The Simplicity Institute seeks to facilitate the rapid transition away from growth-based, consumer societies toward sustainable and more rewarding societies based on material sufficiency.

Links: G. Waste Management

  • Eastern Suburbs Warranwood LETS LETS stands for Local Energy Trading System and is a worldwide organisation. Swap your lawn mowing skills for someone else’s cooking – uses a points system.
  • Freecycle ‘Changing the world one gift at a time’ Offer and receive secondhand items locally.
  • Ground to Ground Recycling coffee grounds would have to be one of the easiest ways to make a difference, and for anyone interested in gardening, composting, vermiculture, or just environmental awareness, this site can show you how to get involved for all our benefit.
  • Permaculture Melbourne a member-based non-profit association established in 1981 to promote the sustainable development of Melbourne. It has grown to become an umbrella organisation supporting a range of local and special interest groups with membership across Victoria.
  • The Sharehood The Sharehood is all about sharing resources and getting to know people in your local area.
  • The Simplicity Collective The Simplicity Collective is a grassroots ‘network of imaginations’ dedicated to creatively exploring, promoting, and celebrating a materially simple but inwardly rich life. Our planet needs us to explore alternative ways to live, and one promising wa

Links: H. Other Transition Initiatives

  • Casey Coastal Transition Towns Our endeavour is to inform you of issues relating to Peak Oil, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability etc so that we can build a resilient, sustainable, localised community.
  • Transition Brunswick The aim is to connect people and organisations in the community to share ideas and skills to build a more connected, resilient and adaptive community.
  • Transition Coburg Transition Coburg was launched in November 2011. It began, as all Transition Initiatives do, with a small group of passionate locals who dared to dream large dreams. These are early days, but even as these words are being written, Transition Coburg is exp
  • Transition Darebin ‘A relocalised and resilient Darebin that is liveable for current and future generations.’
  • Transition Hobson's Bay Transition Hobsons Bay is group of people in the community who are working to inspire a strong and healthy future for our neighbourhoods in the face of climate change and the end of cheap oil.
  • Transition Knox Transition Knox
  • Transition Monty The Montmorency Community Group operates as a catalyst to bring together residents
  • Transition Mooky (Mooroolbark, Montrose, Kilsyth) Transition Town Mooky – Mooroolbark, Montrose and Kilsyth
  • Transition Network
  • Transition Port Phillip Transition Port Phillip is about a happy, healthy, thriving community that is better able to respond to the challenges we face, like climate change, peak oil and economic instability.
  • Transition Sherbrooke ‘Our goal is to create an ecologically resilient and sustainable community in preparation for a low carbon future in the Dandenong Ranges’
  • Transiton Whitehorse Transition Whitehorse

Links: I. Community Engagement

  • Croydon Food Swap and Gardening On-line discussion group for Croydon Food Swap and Gardening. But see What’s On for details of swap.
  • Eastern Suburbs Warranwood LETS LETS stands for Local Energy Trading System and is a worldwide organisation. Swap your lawn mowing skills for someone else’s cooking – uses a points system.
  • Freecycle ‘Changing the world one gift at a time’ Offer and receive secondhand items locally.
  • Ground to Ground Recycling coffee grounds would have to be one of the easiest ways to make a difference, and for anyone interested in gardening, composting, vermiculture, or just environmental awareness, this site can show you how to get involved for all our benefit.
  • Heathmont Bushcare Local group committed to the preservation and conservation of the remnant bushland in Heathmont. Hold regular working bees.
  • Permaculture Melbourne a member-based non-profit association established in 1981 to promote the sustainable development of Melbourne. It has grown to become an umbrella organisation supporting a range of local and special interest groups with membership across Victoria.

Links: L. Living Simply

  • Simplicity Institute The Simplicity Institute seeks to facilitate the rapid transition away from growth-based, consumer societies toward sustainable and more rewarding societies based on material sufficiency.

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