Transition Galway is a Transition Initiative, a community in a process of imagining and creating a future that addresses the twin challenges of diminishing oil and gas supplies and climate change, creating the kind of community that we would all want to be part of.
In response to the twin pressures of Peak Oil and Climate Change, some pioneering communities in the UK, Ireland and beyond are taking an integrated and inclusive approach to reduce their carbon footprint and increase their ability to withstand the fundamental shift that will accompany Peak Oil. The challenges presented to us today by global warming and peak oil (and gas) are perhaps the greatest that humanity has faced. This brings a great opportunity for rethinking the way we live and making conscious choices about what kind of community and world we would like to live in. Change is coming whether we like it or not – and a planned response to the change will leave us in a much stronger position than if we wait until change is upon us.
Transition Galway are hosting a fundraier party for the new community garden project in Nun's Island. The event will be held in Aras Na Gael, located on Dominicks Street, on the 18th of November at 8pm. The fundraiser gig will feature local bands and dj’s and all are very welcome to attend.
So far we have: DJ Will Softly, Led, My Fellow Sponges, Miriam Donohue, Mikey & The Scallywags - final line up to be announced soon.
A new community garden project is being pioneered by Transition Galway. The Sprit Centre has kindly offered us their garden area, located in the heart of Galway City in Nuns Island, for this purpose. The purpose of the community garden project is to create a space for learning about principles of sustainability and ways in which we can bring it into our everyday lives by growing and eating local organic food produce in a community context.
“Come along to the Community Harvest Festival in An Gháirdín (behind Lus Leana, Ballinfoyle, Headford Road) at 12.00 on Saturday September 10th. Visit this wonderful neighbourhood facility with its orchard, vegetable plots, herbal garden, outdoor stage, polytunnel, pond, drystone walls, all of which were developed by local volunteers”.
Festival Attractions include: Bulb Planting, Organic Food Stalls, Bugs Detective workshop, Bike Workshop, Bird Watching Woodland Tour (1.30pm), DJs Peter & Paul, Arts/Crafts workshop, Blacksmithy workshop, Seashore Aquarium, Native Herbs Stall, Trad Music Seisiún, Sketch Painting, Face Painting & Children's Scarecrow Display.
Dr Kieran Hickey, lecturer in Geography at NUI Galway, will be the guest speaker at the next Green Drinks which will take place in at 8pm at Kelly's Bar, Bridge Street on Thursday the 15th of September.
Kieran is an expert in historical and contemporary climate change research and is author of the timely book '5 Minutes to Midnight: Ireland and Climate Change' which investigates the impacts that a changing climate will have on Ireland over the coming decades. Kieran will speak about the likely impacts that climate change will have at a local level in Galway over the coming years.
Volunteers are asked to participate in a major clean-up of a Castlegar bótharín that weaves through a beautiful landscape of farms, bogs, streams, karst limestone and wild flower meadows which could become part of a network of pedestrian/cycling heritage tourism trails for Galway city that are currently being developed by local communities in the localities of Menlo, Ballinfoile, Balllindooley, Castlegar and Terryland.iative is being coordinated by Councillor Frank Fahy with the aim of facilitating cyclist/pedestrian access along a trail that links Ballindooley to the Tuam Road near the castle of Cloonacauneen Castle. However the route has been seriously blighted by industrial scale dumping consisting of fridges, cookers, oil tanks, paint tins and burnt-out tyres which if left unhindered could contaminate the countryside for generations to come.
Councillor Fahy has met with local farmers and landowners who are happy to support this initiative and has secured the involvement of Barna Waste and the Galway Volunteers in the Sept 3rd clean-up.
We are now to visit Cloughjordan Ecovillage in Tipperary in late September (weekend of 24th – 25th September) with some people possibly staying overnight on Saturday in the new hostel and some just going for the day and returning to Galway on the same day. This trip will be open to others interested in visiting Cloughjordan such as Hackerspace members etc.
We hope to either carpool or organise a bus so people should let us know if they are interested in travelling. We will be collecting the money for a bus beforehand (we will let people know about all of the details in plenty of time).
Dr. Kieran Hickey of NUIG will be the guest speaker at September’s Green Drinks at Kelly’s Bar on Bridge St. at 8pm Thursday 15th September. Kieran will speak about the potential effects of climate change for Galway and Ireland.
**Unfortunatly this event has been cancelled** Transition Galway, in collaboration with NUI Galway's EcoSoc, will be organising a free film screening of Leonardo DiCaprio’s 'The 11th Hour' at NUIG (exact location to be confirmed - will notify everyone by email and Facebook in good time) on Thursday 18th August at 7:30pm.
There will be a short discussion after the film. All welcome!
“Come along to the Community Harvest Festival in An Gháirdín (behind Lus Leana, Ballinfoyle, Headford Road) at 12.00 on Saturday September 10th. Visit this wonderful neighbourhood facility with its orchard, vegetable plots, herbal garden, outdoor stage, polytunnel, pond, drystone walls, all of which were developed by local volunteers”.
Dr Kieran Hickey, lecturer in Geography at NUI Galway, will be the guest speaker at the next Green Drinks which will take place in at 8pm at Kelly's Bar, Bridge Street on Thursday the 15th of September.
We are now to visit Cloughjordan Ecovillage in Tipperary in late September (weekend of 24th – 25th September) with some people possibly staying overnight on Saturday in the new hostel and some just going for the day and returning to Galway on the same day. This trip will be open to others interested in visiting Cloughjordan such as Hackerspace members etc. 
Dr. Kieran Hickey of NUIG will be the guest speaker at September’s Green Drinks at Kelly’s Bar on Bridge St. at 8pm Thursday 15th September. Kieran will speak about the potential effects of climate change for Galway and Ireland.
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