Transition Bay St Margarets has partnered with Transition Town Guildford, outside of Perth, Australia
Transition Bay St. Margaret’s is pleased to announce an informal twinning with Transition Town Guildford in Western Australia. Each Transition Initiative is a local group dealing with resilience issues in their area, but the Transition Movement as a whole is world-wide in scope. The twinning illustrates this wide scope as these two transition initiatives are very nearly on the opposite sides of the earth from each other.
The twinning came about when Cam Farnell, a member of Transition Bay St. Margaret’s, was in Western Australia to attend the wedding of his daughter Kim Farnell, who lives near Perth and is a member of Transition Town Guildford. Informal discussion made it clear that, while geographically the two initiatives are about as far apart as it is possible to be, they share many, many goals and challenges in common.
Creating reciprocal links between the initiatives seemed like an obvious way to highlight the wide scope and common purpose of the Transition movement. We encourage people to check the out their web site http://transitiontownguildford.com to see what a similar group is doing on the other side of the earth. This twinning also helps to illustrate that we have but one earth and that it is quite finite. From Halifax if you were to go straight down, and just a touch north, you would pop out about 12,000 Km later at Perth, Australia. That’s about 1/30th the distance to the moon and it’s the only planet we have.