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G’day all! Just heard a couple of Sydney uni students interviewed about their recent year-long bike-ride around Oz promoting sustainable living.

Their website (Everybody Has Power) is particularly good, especially for younger people and includes Facebook links.

The site includes a set of interesting ‘personal sustainability challenges’. Worth a peek!

Sam at 104

Waterworks Community has produced this bumper sticker for Tasmania-wide distribution.

The message (from our old mate Gandhi) is more relevant than ever.

We provide it free to outlets, recommended sale price is 50 cents. Size is 230mm x 70mm.

Here they are. Olympic (climate) torch relay passing the Waterworks quarry on a very cold wintry August 13th.

The torch is being relayed around Australia during the Olympic games - as part of a climate action campaign co-ordinated by ‘Get Up!’.

We wish to thank Margaret at Sustainable Living Tasmania for organising this leg of the tour.

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.

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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