Nine Week Course

Skilling up for Powerdown is based on the successful UK course created by Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Towns movement. It has been adapted to the NZ context.

Course Outline
We are facing a period of significant change due to environmental, social and economic challenges. In this time, it is up to each of us to consciously shape and create a future that is vibrant, fun and desirable.

This course empowers you to make positive and sustainable choices in the face of change. It is important we all know how to cope in a fun and creative way – this course offers the strategies to get you started!

Each session will contain a short overview over the challenges presented to us in the face of Peak oil, climate change and the financial crises. You will learn about tried and tested positive responses as an inspiration for individual change. In a group setting, we will then explore and shape our own paths and develop individual strategies for implementing change in each of these areas of life.

Session 1: The time of our lives
Peak oil, climate change and why every challenge creates an opportunity

Session 2: Food
How to beat rising food prices, forget the supermarket – and save the planet: home food production., coops, community gardens and community supported agriculture

Session 3: Waste and Water
Clever ways to zero waste – and your money back. What’s in a drop – water wisdom for beginners.

Session 4: Housing and Energy
Just a roof over our head? – A fresh look at “home making”, energy conservation, retrofitting, efficiency and appropriate technology

Session 5: Money
Things you never knew about money or why you can forget your job and your budget and still be better off.

Session 6: Health
An apple a day – things we forgot about staying healthy, community health issues, systems and services

Session 7: Travel and Transport
Should I stay or should I go? – Getting around in a post-carbon world

Session 8: The psychology of change
You can teach and old dog new tricks: Strategies for making changes and sticking with them

Session 9: The power of Community
or: Where to from here? - Social capital, Transition Towns, community development, future strategies and outcomes

Current Course

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