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Here’s a chance to meet neighbours and discuss how we make our homes more comfortable and sustainable.

Join us on Sunday October 18 for a house-to-house visit and a sociable Sunday chat. (Please visit between 10 am and 2 pm.)

Six families are opening their home to see what they’ve already done (and are intending to do) to reduce their home’s footprint. This is not a showing off event it is an authentic sharing of ideas.

You can download a summary of each home below:
Ridgeway home: 23 Bramble St
Waterworks Rd homes: 101, 134, 144, 187, 195

At 2 pm there will be a mini Home Energy Workshop at 195 Waterworks.

For more information please ring Carol Ph 6223 4653.

October 24 will see a huge global initiative to make people aware of 350 – the most important number on Earth. [350.org]

350 parts per million is the maximum amount of carbon in the atmosphere we must achieve to maintain our ecological balance on Earth. We are already at 390 parts per million.

With people all around the world participating in all sorts of different ways we can reach this target.

Local community member and national theatre director Neil Cameron is planning an arts event so we in Hobart can participate in this world-wide programme. You can join in by simply emailing here: hobart350project@gmail.com to register your name.

Click here to download the details.

Many thanks to Claudia and Jason and family for use of their home for the belated formal launch of our climate project on Sunday (August 30).

We were blessed with a brief break in the continuous wet weather (as NSW sizzles in mid-Summer temperatures, breaking all records for August).

Here is a replica of the little garden signs that participating households will be displaying in their front yards.

This comes with a commitment: to reduce the household’s carbon footprint by 5% minimum per year. We aim to do everything we can to ensure that this commitment can be easily met, and that task will keep us very busy for the coming year!

And thanks too to Nel Smit, a community representative on Tasmania’s Climate Action Council, who launched the project for us on Sunday.

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Sustainable houses throughout Australia will be opening their doors for you to look inside on Sunday 13th September.

See the real benefits of sustainable housing up close. Learn what you can do with your own home. Meet the professionals and find out about useful products.

Check out the sustainable house day website for house locations in Hobart area. Admission to all houses is free.

It’s been described as “the most successful dramatisation of climate change to hit the silver screen”

August 20 to August 30
State Cinema

From the Director of McLibel and the Producer of the Oscar-winning One Day in September.

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7.30pm
Thursday
30th July
at 60 Waterworks Rd
(Robert Rand’s)

Things to discuss are the Waterworks quarry, our climate grant project, road safety issues, the garden group and more.

(Bring something to share if you care to.)

The official ‘future of the quarry meeting’ has been cancelled due to HCC issues, but the community meeting will still go ahead on an informal basis. Meanwhile, all Waterworks Valley households will be sent letters from council soon regarding the updated draft of the Waterworks Quarry Landscape Plan.

Note: Council is to hold an open day at the Quarry site on Sept 5 as part of its consultation process.

Hi community gardeners,

Now is time to get a compost going, and many hands make light work. Stuart and Jonah will be making compost at 12:00 this Saturday (August 1) above 137 Waterworks Rd.

If you can spare an hour and would like to join in, please bring along:

- A fork or shovel
- As much organic stuff as you can. (Grass clippings, weeds, Autumn leaves are great. No food scraps or woody stuff please.)

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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.

Here’s your chance to call for a safe climate for you and your kids.

Put June 13 in your diary.

(Click on graphic to enlarge.)

For more information click HERE:

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.)

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.

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