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Waste Session at Ellenbrook Sustainability Street

 

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And then there was Two!! But it wasn’t a waste (nice use of pun) of time. The four of us discussed the waste matrix and came up with great examples to reduce our waste output. We even shifted recycling down a few rungs to expose what is possible before walking out to the yellow lid bin. 

And if you are interested, there’s rumour of a 100 days of waste personal quest in Perth, where participants monitor and measure their waste over a 100 days with the idea of observing closely what we use and how we can reduce it – let me know if you want more info.
 
And to close on a sobering note of inspiration. David Suzuki and his wife produce the amount of waste equivalent to a 1 litre milk carton per month! Wow, after composting, that’s all that needs to leave their premises and get processed off site.
 
See you Monday 27th at 6pm Grapevine to discuss the sow project and start to wrap this year up. 

 

 


  The Sustainability Street Approach – first in Australia, unique in the world
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Water Session

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Ellenbrook SSA Villagers with Cindy from Watercorp

To some it might be a dry topic, but it is definitely the word on everyone’s lips at the moment- yes we’re talking about water.

The latest session at Ellenbrook SSA Village, was all about H2O and how we can reduce demands on this precious substance.  Dorothy gave a fantastic Communiversity presentation about her garden, including tips on soil- conditioning and waterwise planting. Lots of questions and note taking ensued. This segued beautifully into the guest speaker Cindy Siano from WA Watercorp’s presentation. Cindy gave a fantastic overview of water use in WA and a few of the big projects that are currently in the  pipeline...(sorry!) But she also led a great discussion on the best way to reduce demands on water - through simple, cost-free, changes in water use practices in the house and garden.  Buckets, mulch, shower-timers anyone!? 



 
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The DIY SSA Pioneered by Cities of Randwick, Waverly and Woolahara as well as The City of Whitehorse in Melbourne.  The DIY SSA mission statement ...

The biggest thing to get our heads around is that the social change, community making and eco-culture crafting aspects of the Systainability Street Approach are its deeper meaning and purpose.

The closer and richer people are together in their focus on the Earth, the deeper and wider will be the ecological sustainability achieved! 

  Sustainability Street is not about providing environmental information per se.   There are oceans of information out there these days.  More importantly, the SSA recognises that a groundswell of people want change and want to be part of a whole new relationship with the glorious natural systems of the Earth.  The enviro-information obsession can actually be a distraction for this awakening mainstream.  

  Our job ahead is to craft new ways, norms, taboos and values.  Believe it or not, getting together over a cuppa, is the best way to start designing this new culture for a better world, which we know is possible and which we can feel emerging.

   Anyhow, and even more empowering, is to recognise the two greatest traits we all have. They are imagination and common sense.  The way forward is just not rocket surgery.  We all know what waste and pollution look like. All the answers are out there and we all have the right and the power to imagine and shape the future we want.


  It all starts with a Sustainability Street Train the Mentor course open to council officers and community alike.  Below, the historic, first ever TTM introduced by Skype --- thanks to the Clovelly CCC Sustainability St Village --- & Cities of Randwick, Waverly and Woollahara in East Sydney.    The Clovelly Villagers at the other end of the "Cyber Workshop".  Wow!
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The 29th NSW Environmental Eduction Conference
Erika Van Shellenbeck is presenting the Willoughby SSA Case Study to this conference. Erik's an SSA pioneer and veteran whose early support with the City Of Willoughby was crucial to the introduction of the SSA to NSW.  Download the case study for a sneak preview ...

 Sustainility Street Willoughby


Selection of media coverage:

Vic Health

Sunday Age
Sydney Morning Herald
Life Magazine
Green Magazine 

Bilfinger Berger Magazine 

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