Become a Compost Mate!
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:33
- Written by asha
Our friend and keen blitzer Hannah Moloney from Cultivating Community sends us this
Become a Compost Mate!
Clifton Hill and Fitzroy Teams are now recruiting
Compost Mates supports gardeners to turn food scraps, from local cafes, into nutrient-rich compost in their own homes & gardens.
1. Free compost workshops.
2. Meet new neighbours.
3. Reduce waste & greenhouse emissions.
Next meeting: First Thursday of each month, Royal Hotel, 41 Spensley St, 7:30-8:30pm.
RSVP:
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Tel: 9429 3084
Cultivating Community’s Urban Harvest @...
Urban Harvest: Also known as food swaps, these gatherings are a great way for gardeners to swap their excess produce for food they don’t or can’t grow in their own garden. They’re complete with their own list of social and enviro benefits including:
-Redistribution of food that may otherwise go to landfill
-Reduction of greenhouse emissions by avoiding long distance transportation of food
-Creations of local food-gardener networks
-Provision of healthy food to the community
-Sharing of gardening and food preparation skills
Cultivating Community’s Urban Harvest @...
Urban Harvest: Also known as food swaps, these gatherings are a great way for gardeners to swap their excess produce for food they don’t or can’t grow in their own garden. They’re complete with their own list of social and enviro benefits including:
-Redistribution of food that may otherwise go to landfill
-Reduction of greenhouse emissions by avoiding long distance transportation of food
-Creations of local food-gardener networks
-Provision of healthy food to the community
-Sharing of gardening and food preparation skills
Fitzroy
First Saturday of each month, 10am-12pm, Smith Reserve, Alexander Parade, near Fitzroy pool.
An established an thriving food swap complete with cups of tea J
Richmond
First Tuesday of each month, 11am – 1pm, 139 Highett St, Richmond, access garden via Belgium Avenue
A food swap with a twist… Held in a community garden on the Housing Estate, you have around 9 different languages being spoken at one time and a whole lots of vegies and herbs you may not have seen before. A great opportunity to learn about different cultures and take yourself on a tour of a massive, pumping community garden.
Clifton Hill….. coming soon, contact Hannah for more details...
There are other groups around the place too... Check out the page maintained by Ceres here.
Film Screening: The Economics of Happiness
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- Published on Friday, 15 April 2011 06:58
- Written by adam
Some of the Melbourne Permablitz Collective have been meeting to help organise a screening of this new documentary on 1 May, National Permaculture Day:
Join us for a screening of The Economics of Happiness, a documentary about the worldwide movement for localisation, followed by a panel discussion with producer and director Helena Norberg-Hodge.
Where: Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre, corner Bell Sreet and St Georges Road, Preston (map)
When: Sunday 1 May, 6 pm – 8 pm (doors open at 5.30 pm) How: This is a ticketed event please call Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre on 8470 8282 between 9 am and 5 pm Monday to Friday to book tickets ($15 full price, $10 concession) |
Both hard-hitting and inspirational, The Economics of Happiness reveals some uncomfortable truths about today’s global economy, financial instability and environmental breakdown worldwide.
In stark contrast, it shows how people around the world are already engaged in exploring alternative visions of prosperity: uniting around a common cause to build more ecological, more human-scale, more local economies.
David Suzuki: “A powerful film that cuts deeply to the heart of the global crisis. Magnificent!”
For more information visit: theeconomicsofhappiness.org
FSPUD - Important New Study on Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 03:49
- Written by adam
This new Victorian study into future land in the city for food security looks very cogent, important as well as readable, so we thought it deserves a mention here on permablitz.net:
Food sensitive planning and urban design (FSPUD) recognises that access to healthy, sustainable and equitable food is an essential part of achieving liveable communities.
In late 2009 the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) and David Locke Associates were commissioned by the National Heart Foundation of Australia (Victorian Division) to develop a resource further articulating the idea of 'Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design' (first articulated by VEIL in 2008 as Food Sensitive Urban Design).
The resulting new resource - Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design: A conceptual framework for achieving a sustainable and just food system - is intended to raise the awareness of planners, architects, urban designers, engineers, policy makers, community members and elected representatives of the need to integrate food considerations into urban land use and development. It outlines:
- key areas in planning legislation, policy and processes to realise this outcomes;
- how meeting people's food needs contributes to the broader objectives of planning and urban design, including: health and fairness; sustainability and resilience; livelihoods and opportunity; and community and amenity; and
- a challenge to professionals and the broader community to take on a stronger role in ensuring that healthy, sustainable and equitable food is available for all Australians into the future.
The resource lays out an ‘FSPUD matrix’ for exploring the integrated nature of planning objectives and the four main stages of a sustainable and resilient food system. It also contains 25 case studies, selected to highlight the range of possibilities that arise from considering food in planning decisions and urban design.
The full report and a shorter summary version were launched last week at the National Sustainable Food Summit and are available now for download from http://www.ecoinnovationlab.com/research/food-sensitive-planning-and-urban-design.
Upcoming documentary Anima Mundi features permablitz
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- Published on Thursday, 07 April 2011 12:54
- Written by adam
We look forward to seeing this when it comes out, which features some of the Melbourne permablitz mob amongst the well known names (in certain circles) of Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Michael Reynolds and David Holmgren.
First blitz in Cairns
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- Published on Thursday, 07 April 2011 03:17
- Written by adam
Roland (a one time Melbournite) writes to tell us about this upcoming blitz in North Cairns. He says "This is partly driven by my friends' great turn out in Altona on the weekend just gone. Mara & Hiroko are stoked with the results." (We'll get a report and photos up from that one soon!)
The organisers hope this will lead to many more in Cairns, and if you're from that way you may like to get in contact with Permaculture Cairns. -AG
Bio-Digger-Street-Culture
Why do it alone when together is more fun
Come & join us at Digger Street Artist Community Permablitz
Sunday April 17th, 8am-4pm. 105-107 Digger Street, North Cairns
Help us to extend & create together a magical food forest & garden
- a perma-sculpture out of plants
Conscious creation instead of unconscious destruction while fostering strong community spirit through creative expression & building community resilience & health through food security.
Bring your Green thumbs & lets Shape Form Plant Sprout Grow
BYO - garden forks, shovels, spades, gloves & hand tools
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