Entries from May 2008 ↓

Tuesday 27th May

Our monthly community gathering
Planning new activities.
At Lilith’s (134 Waterworks Rd)
7.30pm

Sunday June 1: (That’s this coming Sunday).

This is a special Landcare morning because we are doing tree plantings.
A nice event for kids because they enjoy planting.
10 am until noon – below 56 Waterworks Rd.

Sunday June 8th:

Tread Lightly Festival
Another great one for kids and adults, during school holiday.
Free entry if you go there by bike!
Check HERE for details.

June 18 / 19:

Learn about bush weeds in our valley and best ways to eradicate them.
(Scroll down to find out about this)

June 24:

Learn how to do a basic energy audit on your home.
Guest is home energy auditor, Arthur Masters.
This will be at Trish’s home and we have a limit of 40 places.
Details will be posted in next few days, so please check again.

Don’t miss this opportunity! Here is a 2-day course that will inform you all about weeds and how to deal with them.

DATES: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 June
TIME: 9am – 4pm

This is a free course, but you will need to book before June 9.

For more infomation click Course info

To book a place click Expression of Interest form

We must thank everyone who has taken time to persuade Hobart Council to go ahead with the speed humps.

As you all know, Council finally made its decision to go ahead, but there is one last hurdle – the Department of Infrastructure (DIER) requires another round of public consultation.

To make is easier on everyone, we have drafted a collective submission on behalf of our community. Please have a look and let us know if you have any further additions or changes.

Here are the two relevant files:
speed hump submission
waterworks-crash-history

You can make any comments below or email Janine or Chris.

If you ever feel a little disheartened or disempowered, then spare a few moments to read the article below – originally published in Orion magazine last year.

“I have given nearly one thousand talks about the environment in the past fifteen years, and after every speech a smaller crowd gathered to talk, ask questions, and exchange business cards. The people offering their cards were working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. They were from the non-profit and nongovernmental world, also known as civil society.”

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(Seller is Allan, who kindly developed this website for us.)

More information here.

Okay… below (click on ‘comments’) is a space for you to give feedback on the design of this website.

We will do our best to make it suit everybody’s needs.

If you look immediately to the right you will see a category ‘website feedback’.

Just click on there any time you have a thought. Thanks to Dorka for her helpful thoughts.   

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Magnavox TV around 10 – 12 years old, remote, compatible with DVD player, in working order. Make an offer: cash to Community kitty. Come and take a look at it at 131, or email stootrish@gmail.com

Trish at 131

A group of Waterworks households has been buying each week from the All Organic Farm – they deliver free for orders of $40 or more.

Product lists come out each weekend via email, we then email Glenda (at 136) what we want by late Tuesday, she submits the combined order Tuesday evening and it’s delivered every Thursday.

Group members then call in to Glenda’s with shopping bags and money that day and our purchases are weighed, or otherwise divided up.

We find the quality is generally good and it’s much more convenient to make the short walk to a neighbour’s place than to go to the market or trawl the likely shops.

Cheaper, and good for the environment too.
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Believe it or not, our sleepy little community has been in the spotlight. Our activities have been noticed by other thinking communities.

People in West Hobart are organising to set up a sustainability community group for that suburb.  And we have been invited to Mount Stuart Progress Association to explain to them how we went about our Solar Acquisition Project. They want to do the same.

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