cultivate.ie

Exploring how communities can adapt and thrive in these challenging times

19- 20 April 2012 (with an informal evening option on the 18th) | Cloughjordan, North Tipperary | €150 | Places are limited to 15.  Early registration is recommended. Use this contact form or call 0505 56061

With the economy in turmoil and jobs being lost at an unprecedented rate how might we build the resilience of our communities and make sure we have healthy and vibrant places to live and work? The challenges we face are huge, but so too are the new possibilities that appear when we look at old problems with new or fresh eyes. These possibilities include community-supported enterprises, asset based neighborhood development, local food systems and transition initiatives.

This course is for people who see themselves as catalysts for change in their local community and who want to support others to understand the opportunities of developing community resilience and local initiatives.

Programme Flyer (PDF) | More about the Village

Want to keep your mortgage debt to a minimum? Want substantially lower energy bills? You can have both these and more by joining forces with other self-builders and work with a team of professionals and volunteers to build yourself a low cost home in the Cloughjordan ecovillage.

If you’ve always wanted to build your own low-cost home but found it too daunting to go it alone, think again. The Ecovillage and architect Dominic Stevens have come up with an exciting plan to make it possible. Next year, Dominic will be leading the construction of a row of terrace houses. What makes this different is that all the site-owners in the terrace will belong to a house- building cooperative. In this way they can combine the benefits of a community build - help from friends, neighbours and volunteers - with the expertise of a professional project management team.  Read more (PDF)

View 2011 Photos On Facebook | Michael D. Higgins Speaks at Cultivate Tent 3rd Sept 2011

2, 3, 4 September 2011, Stradbally Estate, County Laois. The Global Green returned for a 5^th year at the Electric Picnic as the place to slow down, to celebrate cultural transformation, and to imagine a future that works for all. It was a colourful and enchanting festival oasis where revelers went to Re-Charge, Re-Think, and Re-Engage away from the bright lights of the big arenas. Surfing the Waves of Change was this year’s theme for 3 days of energizing and thought-provoking entertainment and discussion. Food, film, music and debate were all on the menu, along with workshops and games for all ages.

A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It

David Fleming’s Lean Logic was published in his memory in July 2011. 

Lean Logic does not conform.

It is a community of essays about inventive, cooperative self-reliance in the face of great uncertainty.

Lean Logic acknowledges, with honesty, the challenges ahead in finding our way out of an economy that has all but destroyed the very foundations upon which it depends - the climate, the complex ecological system and the community and culture which gives meaning to life.

the powering up of community, creativity and culture

"Bursting with insightful analysis and creative solutions to the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil, The Powerdown Show is an inspirational pointer to life beyond fossil fuels. Essential viewing – a flash of light in the darkness."
- Rob Hopkins, Founder of the Transition Movement

DVD Video | ON SALE! €10 (Buy online) | Widescreen 16:9 | Running time 10 x 20 minutes

the powerdown show is a 10-part TV series that takes a fresh and engaging look at the community responses to the converging challenges of climate change and peak oil.   We have a golden opportunity to create a far better, more sustainable way of life. Millions around the world – many in your own community – are already making the transition to local resilience.  Your vision is needed too.

the network for communities building local resilience

transitiontownsireland.ning.com

This social networking website was launched to facilitate the communication and sharing of experience between the Transition initiatives in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

If you are not on it already and you are active or interested in the Transition Process get yourself along to transitiontownsireland.ning.com
Please let anyone you think should be on this networking site know it exists.