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Quarterly gathering of Waterworks Community was on Wednesday (May 2) @ 164 WW Rd.

Discussion points:

• latest machinations in traffic calming saga,
• a new plan for the community garden,
• land developments, including vacant block,
• hatching community initiatives for the coming months

Last December meeting we brainstormed peoples’ wish list of ways to go forward and a jumble of those loose ideas is on the following list. Would be good to agree on one or two practical initiatives.

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Protecting the essence of Thriving – for challenging times ahead.

What follows is an excellent talk given at a recent Thriving Neighbourhoods conference in Melbourne, by Chris Ryan.

It’s well worth a slow read, so we’ve posted his whole lecture below and invite discussion.

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For those interested in transition, here’s a very short 5 minute video that says it all.

Here’s a new ‘how to’ book that shows how to strengthen communities and help build a formidable transition movement.

Note that the Tas State Library now has three copies in, so why not borrow one!

Click HERE to read more information.

Here’s an event that may inspire you.Visiting British activist, Adrian Porter, is to give a talk about how his home town of Totnes became the world’s first Transition Town.

7pm, Wed 8th February
Twin Ovals Function Centre,
Lightwood Dr (off Kingston View Dr),
Kingston

You’ll hear about the background of the Transition movement and also about the new Transition Streets Project.

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Shifting Gears – Making Transition Happen!

– a weekend workshop for those interested in growing sustainable communities.

This website is now nearly 4 years old and the community group a bit more than that. Over that short history we can be proud of a significant number of achievements: we spearheaded solar bulk purchases, have run energy saving education campaigns, run two wildly successful harvest fairs, undertook a major behaviour change educational project, we’ve campaigned for traffic calming, have run a walking bus all that time and, for our efforts, have won two environmental awards.

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Two major subdivisions have now been submitted for 111 / 125 Waterworks Rd and at 25A Waterworks Rd, comprising altogether over 30 new house blocks on the southern side of the valley. Both have now been advertised.

Anybody who has concerns about these multi-block developments should take note and put in comments to the planning process within the 14 day period allowed.

If problems arise later there is no comeback if concerned people have not submitted their concerns about any aspect of the development. For your convenience here are some documents that have been prepared by the developers for the first development.

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“What a good job the council has done with the quarry,” said someone at this week’s community meeting, and there was all round agreement. It’s a splendid case of community – council collaboration that has taken some years to come to fruition.

Thanks to early intervention by local residents the quarry and surrounds have been kept as as recreation space, it’s got a great ambience being sheltered from wind and the rockface backdrop catches the sun nicely.

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Our February community meeting discussed the rather rapid transformation of Waterworks Rd corridor – there are about 40 potential house blocks of land up for sale or being developed right now, including the 20 advertised at 25 Waterworks Road.

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Dear friends and neighbours- do you have skills in food preserving or are you interested in learning about these skills?

- Bottling
- Drying
- Root cellars
- Making preserves

Would you be able to share these skills with others in a small informal workshop to be timed with this season’s crops?

We’ll organise everything; provide the venue, refreshments etc. We just need your skills and/or interest.

Interested? Then please call Lil on 6224 7390 or email Carol and we’ll get back to you soon!

We have the pleasure of announcing funding for three very worthwhile projects in South Hobart area:

• Seeding funds for development of a community orchard
• A project to educate community members on seasonal foods
• A series of home energy saving workshops

The funding has been made available as a result of South Hobart Community’s very successful solar bulk purchase project – which resulted in $1.5 million investment in domestic solar systems in recent times.

Congratulations to the project bidders.

Chris Harries (on behalf of SH carbon fund committee)

Hi all,

Thank you to everyone who turned up to make the Sunday afternoon Street wall painting a wonderful and fun event. We counted 20 adults, 7 younger and 7 small children taking part throughout the day. We had a great time.

Have a look at the wall. It’s very colorful and inspirational. Many cars passed by and slowed down to find out what was going on. It’s all about raising awareness to look out for each other on the road, share the space and make it safer for everyone to use. (Click continue reading for more pictures.)

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Our local community is part of something much bigger – a rapidly growing worldwide movement. It’s an energetic people’s response to peak oil and climate change, springing up all over the planet.

And throughout Tasmania Transition Communities like ours are emerging all over the place. To give this movement visibility there’s a bright new website – Transition Tasmania.

Check it out now HERE. See what other community groups are doing. You can even join Transition Tasmania as an active participant.