Posts Tagged ‘networks’
Starting a Sharing Community in Your Neighbourhood
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on July 5th, 2010
The Sharehood is all about sharing resources within our neighbourhoods. Sewing machines, cars, tools, books and washing machines all have the capacity to be shared. Skills too can be shared, such as gardening, handiwork, bike fixing, accountancy and so on. Many skills and resources we need are already available within our own neighbourhoods. The Sharehood infrastructure provides a great way to get to know your neighbours and build a sense of community while saving money and the environment. So far around six hundred neighbours are interacting from Adelaide, Newcastle, South Hobart, the US and UK as well as across Melbourne.
This workshop will explain the process of starting a Sharehood community in your area: letterboxing, the first meeting, organising social events, as well as generally sharing the experience of building community. We will also cover privacy issues, the local currency, people without the internet, and will have plenty of time for questions and discussion.
You are also welcome to stick around for our Sharehood Collective meeting at 8pm if you think you might be interested in getting involved in making the Sharehood happen.
Monday the 19th of July, The Hive, 17 Kerr St, Fitzroy
Info Night – 7-8pm
The Sharehood Meeting – 8pm onwards
Tea/coffee and light refreshments provided
Please RSVP to contact@thesharehood.org or 0450720269 if you plan on coming.
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Carbon Compass: Sharing Sustainability Solutions for Business
Posted in Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on April 12th, 2010
Want free access to proven carbon, climate change and sustainability solutions for your business? Would you like to know what other businesses are doing to successfully adapt to the carbon constrained economy? Do you have a carbon, climate change or sustainability solution you’d like to share with the business community? Carbon Down’s Carbon Compass website provides all of this, free for small and medium sized businesses. Carbon Compass provides businesses with access to practical solutions which have been implemented by other businesses and organisations, making Carbon Compass a unique sustainability hub.
Joining is free and as a Carbon Compass member your business will be able to:
- Gain one-stop-shop access to solutions and resources relating to carbon, climate change and sustainability – enabling you to implement within your own business
- Rate and review solutions that other businesses have posted on Carbon Compass
- Provide your own solutions that other businesses can implement
- Receive feedback from other businesses on the solutions you provide
- Expand your network, raise the profile of your brand and gain access to a growing community of like minded businesses
The site provides fact sheets and case studies through an archive that is easily searchable by industry, type, resource or topic.
Simply visit www.carboncompass.com.au to register your business.
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ATA Electric Vehicle Interest Group: First Meeting
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on April 8th, 2010
Source: Alternative Technology Association
Join us in launching the ATA Melbourne Electric Vehicle Interest Group (MEVIG)!
Michael Jacombs will kick off the evening by giving a brief history of the idea behind the group and also the structure of the group. Members will be able to highlight projects they’re working on and there will be an opportunity for questions from attendees. This will be followed with an introduction to Swinburne’s Faculty of Engineering & Industrial Sciences by Clint Steele who is the Senior Lecturer in Product Design Engineering. Stefan Skos and Mathew Femin, Swinburne students, will talk about their electric car project. Then there is an opportunity to view Swinburne’s workshop and their SAE electric racing car. The meeting location has been chosen in order to encourage a healthy and mutually beneficial relationship between a mature, enthusiastic and experienced EV community and the students and staff of the Faculty of Engineering & Industrial Sciences at Swinburne Uni. This is the faculty that assisted CERES in completing their car and has also independently built an SAE standard electric racing car. …Download the full meeting agenda.
The ideas behind this branch:
- Connect people interested in EVs with other like minded people
- To encourage the exchange of EV conversion ideas and experiences
- To foster and support the introduction of electric vehicles
- To work with CERES, the AEVA and other organisations in promoting EVs
- Whilst the group will almost certainly be focussed on cars, it will not be restricted to them, so planes, boats, trains, mowers, roller skates etc will also be embraced
Food Swapping for Sustainability: Overview
Posted in Models, Research by Kate Archdeacon on April 8th, 2010
Image: woodleywonderworks via flickr CC
From “I’ll Raise You Six Granny Smiths” by Sue Jackson on newMatilda:
You have a glut of lemons and your family and friends are pleading “No more!”. Wild parsley is pushing up your pavers. Your signature banana cake recipe deserves wider public recognition. You have heaps of seed saved from last year’s best chillies. If you have found yourself in any of these situations, perhaps what you need is a neighbourhood food swap.
Of course, food swapping is hardly a new phenomenon. Home gardeners have always exchanged produce or given it away. It is not unusual for community or church events to include swapping of food along with other items like toys or books and community gardeners regularly share produce.
What is new is the emergence of events designed specifically for food exchange, where no money changes hands, which are organised by people with food security, public health and community building in mind. And although such events are certainly not exclusive to Australia, we are certainly in the vanguard of this exciting new movement.
As the phenomenon is in its infancy it is not easy to obtain comprehensive figures about the level of activity. There are no official, dedicated national or international food swappers newsletters — as yet — and no central bodies registering food swaps or collecting statistics but we can glean some information.
Change – Your World Post Copenhagen
Posted in Events by camoo1 on March 19th, 2010
JCI Melbourne (Junior Chamber of Commerce, Melbourne) brings you the first of their Business Networking events in 2010:
As the only worldwide youth organisation with voting rights at the UN, JCI has committed to the Global Compact, which includes driving awareness of Climate Change. 2009 saw many developments, arguments and claims from believers and skeptics alike, culminating in the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15). Most people realise it’s an issue that affects everyone in some way. Some still don’t know the facts. But the implications for our future – in business as well as in our communities and day to day lives – are immense.
Our speakers for the evening: Mike Sewell and Anne-Marie Huxleyknow even more. They both trained with Al Gore and their work focuses on sustainability and responsibility. Anne Marie also made the journey to participate in the Copenhagen talks. They’ll help separate the facts from the fallacies and share insights into what did and didn’t happen at COP 15. Come and listen to two people who have taken up the baton to build understanding and awareness of Climate Change. Hear their story and learn how it affects you.
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Innovation Centre, Emirates House, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne
RSVP essential: JCI Members $40, Non Members $60
Please see jcimelbourne.com.au for more details and registration, or download the PDF.
[young] Energy State of the Nation
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on March 11th, 2010
Visit the website for more details.
Bindarri Public Meeting
Posted in Events by bindarri on February 23rd, 2010
Source: Bindarri
You are invited to our first public meeting to discuss the future of the bindarri website. Our aim is to build and strengthen the community of creatives working for positive change and we want to open up the site to this community. Bindarri is a website that includes a regular blog, links directory, events and features on inspirational Australian creatives. Bindarri is independent and not for profit.
Come along if you want to:
- get involved
- meet the people involved
- discuss our strategy, direction and frameworks
- share your ideas
- meet other like minds
- partner your project or organisation with Bindarri
- learn about social and sustainable design
- learn how you can use Bindarri to promote your projects, business or career
- or you are just curious or have questions
For more information visit www.bindarri.com.au/the-big-bindarri-meetup/
Venue to be confirmed. Send us an email to RSVP or to be notified of the venue.
Wednesday, the 3rd of March
BSRT Post-Copenhagen Lunch
Posted in Events by fkotsiaris on February 17th, 2010
After months of preliminary work and 2 weeks negotiations, world leaders produced a three-page non-binding political declaration in the ‘Copenhagen Accord’ that does not provide a successor to the Kyoto Protocol and failed to clarify the means by which we are to achieve the nebulous aim that global emissions must be reduced ‘to hold the increase in global temperature below 2°C’.
While I am satisfied that we sealed a deal, I am aware that the outcome of the Copenhagen conference, including the Copenhagen Accord, did not go as far as many would have hoped. Nonetheless they represent a beginning – an essential beginning. We have taken an important step in the right direction.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNHQ – 21 December 2009
How should we respond? What can we do at the local level to mitigate the risks to businesses posed by political and climate uncertainty? What were the major lessons learned from COP15? These questions and others specific to your business interests will be answered at the Business Sustainability Round Table (BSRT ) luncheon by a specially selected panel of experts who attended the COP15.
CSL Fellowship Program 2010
Posted in Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on February 16th, 2010
The Centre for Sustainability Leadership is looking for people with the passion and potential to create the change the world so desperately needs. The Centre’s acclaimed Fellowship Program has for the past five years produced more than 150 graduates working in business, law, science, engineering, health, government and arts – many of them awarded for their significant efforts towards sustainability.
“Our aim is to create sustainability leaders in every sector of society,” said the Centre’s founder and Executive Director Larissa Brown. She said the Centre’s motto was simple: “We’ve tried to get people in positions of power to care; now we’re going to get people who care into positions of influence.”
The Fellowship Program equips emerging leaders with an unparalleled network of like-minded people, skills such as creative thinking and problem solving, effective influencing, relationship building, and media advocacy as well as in-depth knowledge of behavioural and social change. Participants graduate with the ability to make a real difference.
The course comprises weekly evening workshops, one-to-one coaching, intensive retreats, a mentoring program and project work.
The Centre is currently looking for participants to apply for the 2010 Fellowship Program run in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Only 25 places are available in each city. Applicants from all over the world are welcome.
The program runs from April to November and scholarship places are available.
Further information can be found at www.csl.org.au. International applications close 3rd February 2010 and Australian applications 28th February 2010.
CarrotMob: Supporting Sustainable Business
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on February 11th, 2010
http://melbourne.carrotmob.org/