Transition Galway is a Transition Initiative, that is, 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, and creates the kind of
community that we would all want to be part of.
The challenges presented to us today by global warming and peak oil
(and gas) are perhaps the greatest that humanity has faced.
This time
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.
|
|
|
News -
News
|
Council votes for GLUAS
The City Council voted unanimously to make trams the preferred option
for improving public transport. The GLUAS team made a presentation
advocating trams, privately funded at no cost to the Council. They were
followed by the Director of Transportation and MVA Consultants arguing
in favour of busways costing the Council at least €150million. and not operating before 2020.
|
|
News -
News
|
|
City Council allotments meeting
It is now an objective in the Draft/City Development Plan which will
become law in 2011 to provide allotments.
Furthermore Councillors
received a one page report at the Strategic Policy Committee Meeting on
Parks and Recreation on Monday the 1st March 2010 clarifying that 15
sites have been identified as potential allotment sites throughout the
City.
|
|
News -
Events
|
Our first event:
Learn to grow native trees from seed
Transition Galway's first event,
a Winter tree walk to identify our native trees and the collection and propagation of their seed,
which took place at Barna woods on Saturday last 28th of November was a great success.
Thankfully the rain stayed away long enought and the sun even came out.
|
|
|
Allotments meeting
