This year my goal for "Karamea Sustainable Living" is to form it up as a real group of real people, in Karamea.
So far, the group has been in concept only - a starting point, but one which I need to move along a bit.
My plan to is tie the concept in with the Karamea Summer School and Winter Schools, which I've been organising for the last couple of years. The summer/winter schools are focussed on "Back to Basics Living" which is another way of saying sustainable living. I deliberately used the words "Back to Basics Living" because I felt that our community would relate better to them than to "sustainable living". But now I think it's time to make the transition, and to make the link with the Post Carbon Institute absolutely clear.
The next winter school (July 2006) will also give me the ideal opportunity to programme in workshops that really focus on the issues of resource depletion and life in a post carbon world.
Our small town is at the end of a road in rural New Zealand, and so our current way of life is totally dependent upon transportation of goods up and down that road (100km from the next town and fuel station). We are all totally addicted to petroleum, and as the prices go up I think people will become more and more stressed and angry, unless we have back-up plans - i.e. relocalisation.
So that's what's happening in Karamea, New Zealand.

Here's a link to our local information centre which can give you a sense of where we are.
http://www.karameainfo.co.nz/