May 29th, 2009 — events
Imagine ‘globalisation’ going into reverse gear, where economies go local and transport energy is reduced to one tenth of what it is today. Impossible?
Put this one in your diary for June now.
This visit was initiated by EcoTasmania. Please do circulate to others in your network.
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May 28th, 2009 — community organising, events
The event we have been waiting for - learning all about Transition Communities.
This week-end training is an opportunity to find out how the Transition Towns movement has sprung up and how to apply the principles in our own communities. Don’t miss it.
It’s on week-end of 27th / 28th June 27.
Click HERE for more information. Limited spaces available so please think about booking early.
May 28th, 2009 — community organising, events
7.30pm
Tuesday
16th June
at Flat 4, 64 Waterworks Rd
(Cathryn and Daniel’s)
(In May meeting we were advised the the speed humps are definitely going ahead very soon, foreshadowed our climate grant project start-up date, planned ‘turning the first sod’ in community garden and agreed to contribute $50 to Princes Street School garden.)
May 19th, 2009 — activism, events
Here’s your chance to call for a safe climate for you and your kids.
Put June 13 in your diary.
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For more information click HERE:
May 17th, 2009 — community organising, energy saving
Waterworks Valley’s application for Climate Connect grant has been approved by the Tasmanian Climate Change Office.
This is a major project that will be conducted in the forthcoming 12 months. For an outline click HERE. Or you can download the grant application HERE to see what it entails.
Many thanks for those who contributed to this. And watch this space for more!
May 17th, 2009 — events, food + gardens
Saturday 16th was bleak, showery day, but we turned out in numbers for the ‘turing the first sod’, at community garden. It’s a very sunny spot and the soil is good.
The cabbages and carrots will have a great view of the mountain.
Contact for the garden will be Trish Moran.
Thanks to all who came, especially Trish for organising the day and The Graddons whose land has been made available.
May 16th, 2009 — events
Put this one in your diary now. Last year’s same event was excellent and this one should be too.
Tread Lightly festival to promote sustainable living.
It’s on Sunday June 7th at the Botanical Gardens. Thanks to Cathryn for offering to help roster the community stall for us.
For event details click HERE
April 22nd, 2009 — food + gardens
We have recently bought a Bokashi bucket for our food waste in the kitchen.
We find this a really good invention. The bokashi bucket is a clean and non-smelly way of disposing of organic waste at home. The bokashi mix actually smells quite nice, almost like sour dough bread.
April 19th, 2009 — solar
It happened at our group gardening meeting. Gazing lazily at a sunflower, Stuart G suddenly broke into a mad scientist type of smile. We knew then he had an inspiration that would save the world.
And the stroke of genius is? Well everybody knows how sunflowers track the sun across the sky. And… well… technology buffs have tried all sorts of ways to get solar panels to track the sun across the sky. There, you have it!
Care to calculate the power output from a hectare of micro solar panels attached to sunflowers and connected to the power grid?
April 19th, 2009 — road safety, transport
3.20 pm on a Saturday afternoon. Speeding car, out of control, hits curb, tyre bursts, careens down the wrong-side-of-road on its wheel rim. An all too familiar story.
Blue line follows trajectory, car travelling this way.
The offending car, 100 metres on.
Had it been a week day at that time there would have been an entourage of kids walking / cycling home just at that time.
To defend itself against a possible fatal calamity, the community has decided to take action. Keep tuned.