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Professor Chris Ryan, Sustainable Cities Round Table Sustainable Sharing, 26th February 2009
Posted in SCRT Videos, Sustainable Cities Round Tables by Virginia on March 19th, 2009
Chris Ryan, Director of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) introduced the most recent Sustainable Cities Round Table on the topic of Sustainable Sharing, held 26 February. This event was held in collaboration with the ECO-CITY Melbourne Exhibition at Docklands. See footage of Ryan’s presentation below.
Shared Spaces
Posted in Models by Ferne Edwards on February 4th, 2009
The section below is republished with permission from the Going Solar Transport Newsletter #94, 20 January 2009, compiled by Stephen Ingrouille. Going Solar newsletter provides an excellent commentary on local sustainable transport issues in Melbourne. This article originally from The Age written by Debra Mayrhofer, 5/1/09, is an excellent introduction to the topic of “sustainable sharing” – the theme for the upcoming Sustainable Cities Round Table!
“I was waiting at the lights the other day; wondering why we were being held up when there was no opposing traffic. The pedestrians and cyclists beside me gave it up as a bad joke and just ignored the red signal. Finally we got the green light and the impatient motorist on my right screeched off, barely missing an elderly pedestrian whose slow pace had left him in no-man’s-land. There has to be a better way, I thought. And it seems there is. The first step is getting rid of most traffic lights. They diminish road safety, increase congestion, add to environmental pollution and compromise public space. Contrary to the trend of 20th-century planning, which assumed that efficient traffic flows and road safety depended on separating vehicles from the civic spaces, progressive cities around the world – including Bendigo – are removing traffic lights and gratuitous road signs.
Seeking local sustainable sharing examples
Posted in Events, Seeking by Ferne Edwards on December 5th, 2008
The first Sustainable Cities Round Table event for 2009 will focus on the topic of “Sustainable Sharing“. It seems strange that weve highlighted sharing as a sustainability issue. Yet as the West has become more industrialised weve also grown more individualised producing more products per person. At this Sustainable Cities Round Table we explore how we can learn to share again.
We are currently looking for people and organisations from across the board (government, industry, academia or community) who may be involved in such sustainable sharing initiatives. This may include topics of – but certainly not restricted to – shared spaces, such as laundries, composts and co-houses; shared products, such as the renewed retro world of no longer daggy hand-me-downs, and shared services, such as permablitzes and group purchasing power. We enjoy both the more established ideas as well as the fresh emerging ones!
If you are involved in this area or know of someone who is, please post a comment under this post or contact Ferne Edwards at fedwards @unimelb.edu.au or (03) 8344 9268.