Welcome to our Transition Towns site - the Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre(SEAC) and Transition Sunshine Coast - Australia's first Transition Town and a centre of positive solutions to climate change and peak oil.

Visit our News section for all the latest stories, articles, news and views on Transition Towns.

Transition Sunshine Coast - winner of the 2008 Sunshine Coast Environment Council's 'Sustainable Project' Award.

PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE (PDC) on the Sunshine Coast - next courses - January & May 2009. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for details. Places fill fast so get in early - these courses are proving very popular! Includes Transition Town Initiatives and how to make your home, garden and local community more resilient in the face of climate change, peak oil, economic crises and looming job losses - don't miss this great opportunity to learn some very important skills.

TRANSITION TOWN TRAINING SUCCESS - On the weekend of December 13 & 14 we trained 70 people in how to start their own Transition Initiatives in their own communities.  We also distributed 100 Transition Handbooks throughout South East Queensland. All thanks to a grant from SEQ Catchments.

If you're not familiar with the term 'peak oil', take a quick look at this great flash presentation from the UK here.

TRANSITION TOWN TRAINING - New - Transition Town and community energy descent action training set to start in 2009 on the Sunshine Coast Queensland. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to register your interest. Intensive weekends and long-term courses will be offered. Be prepared and skill yourself up with all you need to know! Make links with like-minded people who are working toward a better future.

Visit David Holmgren's Future Scenarios website for an insight into how the energy crisis could unfold.

BE EMPOWERED & GET ACTIVE - Discover what you can do about climate change and peak oil and the solutions already happening HERE on the Sunshine Coast and around the world - visit our solutions page and take a look at our current and future projects.

ABOUT SEAC

The Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre (SEAC), offers information, courses and presentations on Transition Initiatives, climate change, peak oil, energy descent planning, relocalisation, permaculture and much, much more. 

SEAC offers a creative and positive response to peak oil and climate change by linking together all the aspects needed for sustainable living, by providing free information to the community and by building partnerships with key regional stakeholders.

Our mission is to make a real difference in our local region by providing inspirational education, information, planning and action strategies and by promoting more sustainable choices for a low impact, low emission future.

We've brought key groups in the region, including local council, to be part of the planning and implementation of an Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP), the next logical step in ‘think global – act local’.

SEAC (‘seek’) is a focal point for information, networking and education for; members of the public, community groups, environmentalists, schools, university students, teachers, academics, the media, businesses, industry, council, state government … in fact SEAC is for anyone interested in being part of positive, community-led collaborative action that is making a real difference in our region.

To learn more about peak oil, view this flash presentation from the UK.

You're invited to take a look around this website and discover the exciting projects already happening on the Coast in response to climate change, peak oil and energy descent preparedness.

Be part of local response to these critical global issues and join the challenge to take control of our future and create an exciting vision based on low impact living, relocalisation, transitioning and rebuilding community! Be part of the solution.