Projects
Collaborations
Collaborations Over the years, Transition Darebin has worked together with various different groups to achieve great things. Darebin Hard Rubbish Heroes ‘Darebin Hard Rubbish Heroes’ is a group dedicated to saving useable items and materials from landfill throughout the City of Darebin particularly at hard rubbish colllection times throughout the year. We are also about…
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Convivial Kitchen and Garden
Convivial Kitchen and Garden is about learning new skills, engaging in hands-on workshops or watching practical demonstrations. We learn cooking skills, gardening skills, and other useful things. It’s community run, so either a facilitator comes in or it is led by a local person. These workshops have been running since 2014 and have been run…
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Darebin Repair Cafe
Waste is one of the biggest problems we’re facing today – things we buy break, can’t be easily fixed, and end up going to landfill, meaning we lose valuable resources and our landfills grow. But if we could fix some of these things beforehand, we could help make things better. Darebin Repair Cafe, part of…
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Boomerang Bags
Boomerang Bags is an initiative that originated in Queensland and is now international. It reduces plastic bag use by engaging communities to make reusable ‘Boomerang Bags’ as a fun, sustainable alternative. Local community volunteers make the bags using donated second-hand materials, keeping the initiative local and sustainable. You can make bags at home, with friends or…
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Coordination Group
The Transition Darebin Coordination Group meets on the 2nd Monday of each month. It’s a lively group which kicks off about 7.30pm with some nibbles and occasionally a cheeky glass of wine. The venue generally rotates through a number of homes of the coordination group members. We circulate a basic agenda before the meeting and members…
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Transition in the Pub
TD in the Pub is a (mostly) monthly evening event where where folks can kick back, meet new people, and learn more about the world we live in and what we can do to change it. Anyone is welcome to come along whether you like drinking beer or not! Each night has a focus topic…
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Fun Raising
Normally, when groups aim to raise something through running extra events, that something is FUNDS. Money – for future operations, new big purchases, or just to keep things running. But we’re not going for something like that – what we’re interested in is FUN raising. We want to provide social opportunities, chances for people within…
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Darebin Fruit Squad
Darebin Fruit Squad is a program that harvests fruit from households across Darebin, and shares them with those in need. DIVRS currently runs the program, with funding from Darebin Council, but it began as an idea by Transition Darebin. We started the project, and developed this project over three years from 2011 to 2014. This How…
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Food Swaps
Darebin now has 4 food swaps on the go. Here are the variety of swaps you can choose from (and you can go to more than one if you want!): Name Date and Time Location Northcote Food Swap 2nd Saturday of the month, 11 to 12 noon 251 High St Northcote in the side garden of…
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