City of Whitehorse

Vox has worked with the City of Whitehorse since early 2006 on the Sustainability Street Approach. This collaboration has resulted in brand new ways to approach grass roots community education in an ongoing, sequential and developmental learner driven program.

Streeters have regular hub meetings every other month and topics include water, waste and energy reduction. We also discuss other sustainable living issues as well - living locally and thinking globally!

Streeters will start a Train the Mentor course in June and July, which is to be followed up by a milestone event - Graduation in order to celebrate the achievement.

When you see a street sign like the one below

you will find a sustainability village out there!!!

Events and Activities

• Wattle Hill Village, Wednesday 25th February 2009, 7pm @ Rentoul Hall, Water Saving including monitoring/reducing water use and water saving products.
  
• Vermont South Village, Wednesday February 11th, 7pm @ Vermont South Community House. Kick the year off with a BBQ and planning/brainstorming for the Vermont South Hub's event/project for 2009.
• Whitehorse Sustainability Street- Christmas Party- Sunday 23rd November, 11.30am-3.00pm, Blackburn Lake Visitor Centre, Central Road Blackburn –All Welcome!
• Download the latest Whitehorse Sustainability Street Program Newsletter.
  
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NSW Environmental Trust

The Sustainability Street Approach is being adopted by three new councils and extended by the five exsiting NSW councils, some of who have been involved for nearly five years. The Sustainability and Environment officers from all eight councils recently graduated from the Train the Mentor course.

The next stage is to conduct the Invitation and Information Session in local places. These are very eventful and environmentally meaningful, fun and human scale "town hub meetings" which might include the music of a local artist or school band, an opportunity to speak passionately and best of all an opportunity to "express interest" in forming a local SSA Village.

After that, the training program will run over a twelve to eighteen month period. At the conclusion of the training, after the graduation ceremony, the experience in the past is that local people often get inspired to undertake a project together such a community garden, assisting each other connect grey water, holding a Sustainability Street Party, etc and so on. See elsewhere on this site for insight into some of the wonderful and imaginative project ideas that groups have created.

Please look at the NSW SSA menu 2007!!!

Events and Activities:

• Sustainability Street NSW Conference 2008 'Sharing our Stories', Saturday 30th August, 10:00am -4:00pm, Muru Mittigar Aborginal Cultural and Education Centre, Old Castlereagh Road, Castlereage 2749.

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NAGA/DVC (Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action and Depart of Victorian Communities)

In Partnership with the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA) and the Department of Victorian Communities (DVC), we have had the privilege of “mentoring” 16 new Sustainability Street Villages into being across the northwest of Melbourne.

Download NAGA train the mentor course syllabus from here.

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• Sustainability Street/Yarra Valley Water showerhead exchange program.

Ellenbrook, Perth

In partnership with LWP Ellenbrook Management, we are honored to work with Ilka Nelson, who is the first Sustainability Street Mentor in Perth,Western Australia, to set up a Sustainability Street Village out there!

• Tuesday August 26th, 6:00pm, Water Session, Ellenbrook.

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Supported by Adelaide Mount Lofty Natural Resource Management Board, the Sustainability Street program unfolds in two pilot city councils: Adelaide City Council and Marion City Council.

• Tuesday November 4, Wed November 5, North Adelaide and Marion Community meetings at North Adelaide Community Centre, 176 Tynte Street and Edwards’s town Bowling Club, Raglan Avenue, South Plympton separately.

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