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How To Start Your Sustainability Street PDF Print E-mail

Nota bene also, the word "street" in Sustainability Street is a metaphor.  A Sustainability Street Village can be any group of people who live nearby, go to the same church, meet at the same playgroup, etc, and want to get together to exp;lore a whoe other way of hanging out and creating a beacon for others.

There are two ways to get involved ... many local Councils have “trained mentors” who work alongside local communities to “guide” them through the quite unique aspects of difference which make the SSA so effective and rewarding. (refer the evaluation study summary attached)  

However, there’s an even better way …


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(and very best local capacity building level) communities around Australia are simply “doing-it-for-themselves” ... based on the guidelines, resources, steps and stories of other communities in the Sustainability Street Manual.  Go the google on Winston Hills in Western Sydney, a classic DIY Sustainability Street Village. Or Hobson's Bay in bayside Melbourne.  And then there is the East Keilor Sustainability Street Village who have created the very famous Walter Burley Griffin Garden

      •  Threee year evaluation of SSA by Victoria University:Summary
 
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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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 woollahra.jpgrandwick.jpgwaverly_150-logo.jpg       The TTM Syllabus    

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 ...

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Selection of media coverage:

Vic Health

Sunday Age
Sydney Morning Herald
Life Magazine
Green Magazine 

Bilfinger Berger Magazine 

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