Transition Epping - forging ahead

Transition Epping began earlier in the year with the founders Sandra Nichols and Deborah Burt designing a series of 8 workshops to which local residents and business people were invited to enrol at an initial launch 'town meeting'.

These workshops embraced the history and present resilience of the local area, the natural environment and our ecological footprint on it, local food production, waste and water, home energy use and efficency, health and wellbeing, building community and finally creating a 2020 vision for North Epping.

The final visioning session proved the value of the process and produced a great set of local transition projects with participants taking on team leadership roles and membership to take these projects forward,

The projects were:

• Creating an educational native/food verge garden at the local shopping village to inspire local residents to get involved
• Transition Epping Swap & Share (TESS) - bi-monthly meet-ups to share both stuff and resilience skills
• Establishing a Solar Panel bulk-buying group
• Establishing and maintaining a web presence
• Assisting the local school with their food garden
• Creating a community directory to identify positive local partnership opportunities
• Advocacy for an improved local bus service to reduce car reliance

What an inspiring set of planned projects; well done Transition Epping!

The group is planning a great unleashing later in the year after the projects are underway. They have clearly read the Transition Primer and are showing us how its done. We're proud of you.

Of you live in the area and want to join the party, you'll find a contact link on the Local Groups or Get Involved page of this site.