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What do the workshops cover?

We’ve split the workshops in this online document into seven separate bits: energy, water, waste and consumer
power, food, and transport, with two additional sessions that start and close the program: a ‘Getting Started’
session at the start and a ‘Wrapping Up’ party session at the end.

Each workshop provides super practical, step-by-step actions you can take in each of the above areas to
reduce both your carbon emissions and your resource use. Some of these actions involve one-off changes,
while others are habits that the workshops will help you to build, so that after a few weeks, you’ll do them
automatically without thinking.

This program’s been designed using behavioural science, to try to make it as easy as possible for you to adopt
more environmentally sustainable habits.5

Remember - you can do as little or as much of the workbook as you like, and in whatever order you like.
This is great news - if you’re not sure you want to do all of the topics, you don’t have to (although it’ll make
reducing your emissions way easier and it’s about the same time commitment as a monthly book club). Some
scientific experiments show that if you’re motivated to reduce your impact on the environment and you take
up just one environmentally-friendly activity, like turning the lights off when you leave a room, you’re more
likely to pick up another environmentally-friendly activity, without even thinking about it. 6

Can I do this by myself?

Transition Streets works best when you do it as part of a group. Even a group of two can work well. Research
on behaviour change shows that we’re more likely to form new habits and stick to them if we have other
people doing it with us. However, if you’d like to do the program on your own, you’re very welcome to.

Okay, so how do I get started?

If you have some friends who’d like to do Transition Streets too – that’s great!

If you’re already reading this with a bunch of friends (or friend-neighbours, we like to call them ‘freighbours’ )
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and you’re ready to go, then take it in turns to register for the program right now:
http://www.theneighbourhoodeffect.com.au/ts_join

If you’re keen to get a bunch of your friends or neighbours together to do this program, then all you need to
do is arrange a time with your friends and/or neighbours to meet up and work through one of the workshops
together.

Each workshop should take about an hour. Go about organising it the same way as you’d organise a coffee
date at your favourite cafe, or afternoon tea (or cocktails!) at your place.

If you need some more help, the box below has step-by-step instructions on setting up your first workshop
and an email invite that you can send to your friends or neighbours that explains Transition Streets and invites
them to join you.

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