Please find below some more news about the wonderful local work with the Sustainability Street program!

Another SSA Village SnapShot
The Sustainability Street Approach – Newlands
Sounds like a plan.

“Eating and Meeting” is a staple of Sustainability Street. Newlands got together for a BBQ and planning session last week.

Sam Starr, Sustainability Street’s “Entertainer in Residence” kept the kids happy so their parents could concentrate on devising a few projects to strengthen the community and help the environment. Not content with one project, the group decided on a range of projects.

• A community market
• A kitchen garden – working with Newlands Primary
• Community data base / intranet to allow; skill share, tool share, car pooling, book swapping
• Area history group to record local history
• Nature strip plantings
• Linking with and assisting local advocacy groups.

Then it was “hands up, names down” because a project is only as good as the people who make them happen. Stay tuned for project updates.

*The Four Stages of The Sustainability Street Approach are,

MULCH – Lifelong learning for sustainability
GROW – Do it and measure it,
HARVEST – Feel proud and celebrate,
SOW – SHARE YOUR WISDOM, NOURISH THE NEW CULTURE.