We work on many projects in South Hobart to build a sense of community, but there is much more we would like to do. If you would like to get a new project up off the ground, contact us. Ideas for projects - Advertising campaign - Leaflet drops, advertising on telephone poles around South Hobart. Single sentence, website-oriented posters
- Skillshare - University of everything style. Coordinate via website.
- Research what other sustainability groups are doing - Copy their ideas & implement in South Hobart.
- Composting revolution in South Hobart, encourage everyone to reduce the amount being sent to landfill
- Carbon challenge - Signing up households to compete to reduce their carbon footprint.
- Low carbon diet promotion
- Sustainable shopping guide
- Community Conversations - 5 most effective things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint
- Nut trees - On nature strips to beautify & encourage community gardening
- Sustainability Carnival
- The Sustainable Living Festival targets green enterprise; this can be something more home- and community-based.
- A DIY guide for simple solutions to have fun, reduce impact and save money.
- Bike fixing workshop - bring in your bike
- Never having to buy new batteries again -- rechargable batteries
- Good resources for information -- websites like http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/
- How to use this website
- House tours for showcasing implementing sustainable ideas
- Bring in your bills to compare, swap tips for energy saving
- Practical gardening (building people up to a community garden)
- High-quality online resources Transition towns movement http://www.transitiontowns.org/, TED
- Community engagement projects - Transition towns, Post Carbon institute
- Expressions of interest required:
- Community living - something like Cascades cohousing or sustainable house development
- Community car
- Web training
- Media-rich links such as slideshows & photos of the local area
- How-tos, help on creating pages, logging in, creating accounts etc. Make own screenshots.
- Bushwalking club - Google Group?
- Sustainable shopping guide - All organic farm, Live Life, Post Office, Salad Bowl, Jim's Oasis, Butchery etc.
- Slow food SoHo: link to Necessary Voices slow food mp3 (find again) to establish good lifestyle basis for sustainability & better social connections
- Whole page on other community groups (Such as masg.org) and what they are up to.
- Research to see what projects other community groups are involved in -- copy good ones
- Much better links page - keep it small and categorized.
- Add postcarbon.org - Carsharing programs and the like
- Add climatetasmania.com.au - Peter Boyer's blog site
- Mount Alexander Sustainability Group
- Subgroups to develop quantifiable goals for each - "what gets measured gets done"
- Post notice in SHPA newsletter for southhobart.org
- On front page email list: send event notices to secretary@southhobart.org
- Change Google analytics to a different Gmail account
- Design logo & deploy throughout site
- Configure MX records on NetRegistry to forward *@southhobart.org.au to *@southhobart.org
- Research how to share "Events" calendar with everyone on southhobart.org rather than delegating permissions one-by-one - can't do; need to delegate permissions to power users one-by-one. Aargh!
- Contact details, location-specific information: share through private.southhobart.org
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