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Speed Date A Sustainable Designer 23rd June 2012

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May 102012

What is Speed Date A Sustainable Designer?

Are you renovating or building? Do you have plans and ideas you’d like to discuss with green architects or building designers?

The Alternative Technology Association (ATA) would like to invite you to Speed Date A Sustainable Designer.

Speed Date a Sustainable Designer brings together Australia’s leading architects and building designers in the one spot so that you can meet and discuss your plans in a relaxed “no obligations” environment.

The first Speed Date A Sustainable Designer event was held as part of Victoria’s 2010 State of Design Festival and was a great success. At this event we arranged 90 “dates” between homeowners and 10 sustainable architects and designers. Watch the short YouTube video overview. Over 500 homeowners applied to be part of that first event, so make sure you register quickly!

With the support of bankmecu the ATA is conducting speed dating events in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in 2012.

EcoExpo this weekend FoxStudios May 12-13

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May 102012

EcoXpo Sustainable Eco Living – Organic, natural and sustainable eco living products and services

http://www.ecoxpo.com.au/

Thousands of amazing sustainable products and services all under one roof! – See numerous eco living live presentations by eco-icons and celebrities, engage exhibitors and visitors alike EcoXpo is THE all-inclusive forum of sustainable companies and their customers interested in eco living. EcoXpo creates success and flourishing for our eco friendly companies and customers living green.

Creative Community Governance and Decision Making May 14, 2012

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May 092012

http://communitygovernanceworkshop.eventbrite.com/?ref=esfb

Paid Event

Creative Community Governance and Decision Making

http://communitygovernanceworkshop.eventbrite.com/?ref=esfb

This workshop is designed to assist existing and newly established groups to develop good governance and decision making processes essential to the growth of a healthy group culture and happy human relations, vital to the long term success of any community project.

Feel Empowered in groups
Use and explore a tool box of creative decision making processes
connect and share in an interactive environment

For further information regarding your booking contact Emma Wasson 0409 300 592 or email emmawasson@gmail.com

Facilitated by Robin Clayfield.

Robin has spent the past 30 years working, playing and interacting in groups in various capacities… Since 1990 she has been facilitating and creating one and two week intensive residential courses, Training Teachers, Guiding Women’s Weekends, Designing and Leading Empowerment and Visioning sessions (for Community Groups, Businesses and Individuals), Lobbying Governments & Councils, Chairing Meetings, Presenting at Conferences and Festivals, as well as Living, Working and Sharing with others in Community – all in a spirit of empowerment, creativity, joy and holistic growth and learning.

She is the author of two books, co-author of several resources and a Training Manual and has produced a CD of Guided Visualisations set to music. Robin has run the business of Earthcare Education since the mid nineties and is a mother and grand mother. She somehow finds time to also potter in the garden, home educate her teenage son and play in JAMBEZI a high energy Marimba band.

Robin acknowledges powerful inspiration in her life from nature, all beings and many humans including Joanna Macy, Star Hawk, John Seed, Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Lea Harrison, her two children, Pele and Tumii and especially Skye.

To see a Utube clip of a Pecha Kucha presentation by Robin for ‘Green Love’ put on by Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance in August 2011 and entitled “The 20 things I love most about my life that are Green and Creative” click this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CYYAl3lpE Pecha Kucha is a presentation process which give 20 seconds for each of 20 slides so that each presenter only gets 6 minutes and 40 seconds to present. This was filmed by Luis Gonzales Medina from Chile while he was WWOOFing (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) with Robin.

www.dynamicgroups.com.au

Sat 12 May: Compost Awareness Week

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May 082012

Come get your hands dirty with Costa & help build compost for Bondi Beach Primary’s veggie garden. This hands on learning experience will be fun, educational and full of community spirit. http://reduceyourfootprint.com.au/events/compost-with-costa-working-bee/

Thu 10 May: Youth Food Movement Movie Night @ Food Connect. A taste of what to expect from the exciting Youth Food Movement

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May 082012

Reel Food Nights – screening The Greenhorns

Thursday at 6:00pm

Peter Dowson and 1,433 other guests

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

Food Connect Sydney

Thu 10 May: Youth Food Movement Movie Night @ Food Connect. A taste of what to expect from the exciting Youth Food Movement

Event sourced from Bondi Transition

Reminder – Garage Sale Trail – Tomorrow – Saturday 5 May.

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May 042012

As part of the Garage Sale Trail, Waverley Council is holding a community sale on the Bondi Pavilion forecourt on Saturday 5 May.

Community and not-for-profit groups, including WIRES and Transition Bondi, will be selling second hand goodies to raise money and spread the word on the great work they do.

So come on down to re-use, recycle and pick up a bargain that supports your local community!

Discovering Urban Permaculture at Barrett House this Sunday

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May 012012

CASES.org.au and ATA.org.au will be present at this;

It’s hands-on and brains-on this National Permaculture Day at the Barrett House sustainability demonstration centre with a permaculture house and garden clinic, swap party, planting out of the footpath garden and an introduction to permaculture… all to the soothing sound of a solar powered ambient sound system in a wheelie-bin. Our clever permaculture clinic crew.

Landscape architect Steve Batley from Sydney Organic Gardens and architect Terry Bail from Archology, both of whom happen to be permaculture designers as well, will be here to answer your questions about your own garden design and what’s growing in it, as well as ideas on how to make your house more energy and water efficient and to advise you on renovation and garden rehabilitation, whether your garden is an urban lot or an apartment balcony.

Swap party
Join us in redistributing those items you don’t use anymore. Bring up to 3 good quality items to swap, DVD’s, CD’s. books, homewares, toys and clothes.

Want to know more about ‘How to Swap’ watch http://recyclingweek.planetark.org/media/aussieswap.cfm

Garden planting
For those with an inclination to get their hands in the soil, we’ll be continuing the rehabilitation of the footpath garden from an unproductive and boring agapanthus monoculture into a food-producing polyculture, a forage garden from which passers-by can pluck a herb or two to add to the evening meal.

Permaculture Sydney East chats with us
Permaculture Sydney East/Transition Sydney’s Peter Driscoll will be there, too, to lead a discussion about what exactly this permaculture thing is.

BARRETT HOUSE
Barrett House is a sustainability education centre demonstrating water and energy efficient design ideas and low-impact materials that is used for the 3-Council Eco-footprint Project workshops and as a meeting place for local sustainability groups.

The next workshop coming up at Barrett House is Balcony Gardening—to book go to http://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/bakg

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Organized by Fiona Campbell

3-Council Ecological Footprint Project ,
26 Barrett Place, Randwick, NSW 2031

Tel: 02 9315 7244
Website: http://reduceyourfootprint.com.au

Permaculture Design – Randwick Sustainabilty Hub

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May 012012

When: May 6, 2012

Like the sun rising to herald a new day of light and warmth, there’s something new rising in Sydney’s urban east to herald a new dawn of sustainable urban living—theRandwick Sustainability Education Hub.

The retrofitted community centre, with its photovoltaic panel array, wind turbine, interior improvements for energy and water efficiency, rainwater harvesting and storage and PIG (Permaculture Interpretive Garden) offers a plethora of take-home ideas that you can do in your own home and garden.

In the PIG you will find easy-to-copy examples home landscaping, garden water management and food production to stimulate your own efforts in modern, creative living. The PIG is also a fine example of the principle of multiple-use in permaculture design, combining a public park and edible, educational landscape.

Join us on National Permaculture Day…

for a Sydney LETS market day… peer-to-peer trading goods and services—see how it is done
to tour our energy and water retrofitted Sustainability Education Hub, and talk with permaculture architect Terry Bail
to tour the PIG (Permaculture Interpretive Garden) with permaculture landscape architect Terry Bail
in planting out vegetables and herbs in our Permaculture Interpretive Garden
for kids activities and listen to solar powered music

Permaculture Design – Randwick Sustainability Hub

Celebrating National Permaculture Day WHEN: 2:30pm to 4:30pm Sunday 6 May 2012 WHERE: 26 Munda Street, Randwick.

For More Info see here

Will you be standing up for CSG at tomorrow’s Rally – Make sure you are heard ?

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Apr 302012

Will you be standing up for CSG at tomorrow’s Rally – Make sure you are heard

Don’t let O’Farrell get away with his draft Code of Practice for CSG Mining Last year more than 1500 submissions – from farmers, city folk, organisations, the catholic church, water experts, academics – were received by the NSW Upper House Enquiry into Coal Seam Gas.

Climate Action Summit 2012 this weekend – Did you miss out

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Apr 272012

Climate Action Summit 2012

http://climatesummit.org.au/

Because you will be able to talk to scientists, academics and many leading Australian climate campaigners, and to: Help build a movement that can win a safe climate Understand more about climate change such as how unseasonal cold weather can fit the model of global warming Hear informed positions on what Australia should be doing – including international perspectives Discuss a range of approaches to action with experts and participate in workshop groups Meet like-minded people from around the…

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What is Speed Date A Sustainable Designer?

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http://www.ecoxpo.com.au/

http://communitygovernanceworkshop.eventbrite.com/?ref=esfb

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Don’t let O’Farrell get away with his draft Code of Practice for CSG Mining Last year more than 1500 submissions – from farmers, city folk, organisations, the catholic church, water experts, academics – were received by the NSW Upper House Enquiry into Coal Seam Gas.

http://climatesummit.org.au/