Grey Lynn 2030 Transition Community

GET CREATIVE FOR YOUR CAUSE TO WIN $25,000.00

On 28 May 2009, Canon will launch Creative for a Cause – a national awareness campaign encouraging New Zealanders to get creative for the causes they are passionate about. We would like to invite you and your organisation to get involved.

Canon Creative for a Cause is a campaign designed to generate exposure for causes and organisations such as yours.

In addition to fundraising opportunities arising from the awareness campaign itself, the active involvement of your members and support community could earn your organisation $NZD25,000 as well as a chance to become a Canon preferred charity in 2009.

We’re calling upon all New Zealanders to get creative by taking a photograph that depicts a cause that they are passionate about and uploading it, along with a 25 word description of what their photo represents and who their selected charity is, to www.canon.co.nz/creativeforacause.

We will be listing your organisation on the Creative for a Cause website at launch to generate awareness and encourage people to upload images depictive of your cause.

An extensive PR campaign and online image sharing through various social networks will encourage people to actively vote and encourage voting on the images that appeal most to them.

New Zealanders are renowned for their passion for causes and for taking photographs. The campaign will link these two passions and provide a platform to raise awareness of causes people are passionate about. Through Creative for a Cause and the power of creative imagery, Canon hopes to make a difference to the many important charities in New Zealand.

We’ve included  information on the campaign below. If you have any queries, please contact the Canon Creative for a Cause team at creativeforacause@hillandknowlton.com.au or call us on (09) 379-2121

Traffic Focus Group (new)

Have you almost be run over on the pedestrian crossing at West Lynn? Is the commuter traffic using your street as a rat run? Do you have any ideas for traffic calming measures ? Do you think it would be great to have a 30km speed limit on our residential streets?

If so you might like to get involved with the Grey Lynn 2030 traffic focus group so we can take some practical steps to making our community more safe and friendly for walkers and cyclists.Please email Pippa pippacoom@gmail.com or introduce yourself at the meeting on Monday 8th June.

Once we have interested members we will meet to discuss:
- a name for the group
- objectives
- priorities and a first project to take on
- initiatives already underway (for example the proposal to lower the speed limit on Ponsonby Rd to 40km ) and how we can best offer support.

Grey Lynn 2030 have been given the opportunity to give a verbal presentation to the Auckland City Council on 10 year plan for 2009 – 2019. (This certainly makes you see why calling ourselves Grey Lynn 2030 is not that far away as far as the council works)

Hearings are on from 2 – 5 June (We have not been given a specific time yet)

We are planning to make an appearance as it is another opportunity to ensure the council is aware of community initiatives and Grey Lynn 2030.

Pippa Cooom is happy to talk at a high level to each of the headings in the submission but who else like to get involved with this?

Here is a link to a flyer Mt Albert Transition Town have made to advertise our next Movie Night ‘Garbage Warrior’ for Thursday 28 May.

Please distribute to publicise this event.

It would be great to have lots of people attend.

Hey Everyone!

In February of this year, over 50 young environmental leaders from all over the country got together in Taupo to discuss how we want to act for a future that we want to live within.

We pondered over issues such as whether our current efforts are really just slowing down the inevitable? What would it take to be ‘regenerative’ and to be a ‘ReGeneration?’

We talked about what being ‘good’ could look like, instead of ‘being less bad.’ About being a regenerative force in society and the environment. We shared stories, project ideas and inspiration.

This group is hosting an Auckland event centred on World Environment Day called FREEZE, FOCUS and ACT on the 5th, 6th and 7th of June.

We will be having conversations and taking action on what is important to us and sharing how we need to act towards a sustainable Aotearoa.

This event is created by the participants and is aimed at learning from each other and sharing experience.

We invite you to come along and participate!

“The great work of our times, I would say, is moving the human
community from its present situation as a destructive presence on the
planet to a benign or mutually enhancing presence. It is that simple”

Thomas Berry