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SHSC Community Building group sets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Target

50% by 2020

For the whole of South Hobart, we plan to help reduce our collective Greenhouse Gas emissions by 50% (of 1990 levels) by 2020. We plan to achieve this through a range of activities:
  • Building a reliable methodology to estimate emissions from households across South Hobart
  • Developing an interactive scheme to allow residents to track their emissions and hence compete against other households
  • Building a knowledge base to share tips and tricks
  • Expanding awareness of SHSC to inspire other households to engage in GHG reduction programs.


Ideas for projects, in support of our goal of 50% by 2020

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.
Mural - Past, present, future of the area on the Badminton centre wall, Cascade Rd?
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


Skills n Stuff improvements
- Make pretty, streamline.
- Share email address if valid, pancake/share if not.
- Display output better

E.g. in the 'You sheet' you could set up a filter like this:
A2: = FILTER( 'Main Sheet'!A2:D ; 'Main Sheet'!D2:D="You" )

in the 'Me sheet' you could set up a filter like this:
A2: = FILTER( 'Main Sheet'!A2:D ; 'Main Sheet'!D2:D="Me" )


Transition Tasmania - Could Tassie be the first completely sustainable Island?

posted Apr 15, 2009 9:27 AM by Lissa Villeneuve
The Transition Towns Initiative began in the UK and has spread rapidly around the world. The aim of the project is to equip communities for the dual challenges of climate changepeak oil. Margaret and Lissa, from Sustainable Living Tasmania, recently attended a Transition Training Session in Victoria with about 40 other SE Australians eager to learn more and start implementing Transition in their towns.  SLT is very excited about supporting Tasmanian Transition Communities...perhaps South Hobart could be one of the first?  We will be organising a trainaing session in May/June.  More details to come. Contact Lissa for more info on 6234 5566 or by email. Below is some information pinched from the WIKI site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns) :

The main aim of the project generally, and echoed by the Towns locally, is to raise awareness of sustainable living and build local resilience in the near future. Communities are encouraged to seek out methods for reducing energy usage as well as increasing their own self reliance—a slogan of the movement is "Food feet, not food miles!" Initiatives so far have included creating community gardens to grow food; business waste exchange, which seeks to match the waste of one industry with another industry that uses this waste; and even simply repairing old items rather than throwing them away.

While the focus and aims remain the same, the methods used to achieve these vary. For example, Totnes has introduced its own local currency, the Totnes pound, which is redeemable in local shops and businesses helping to reduce food miles while also supporting local firms. This idea is also planned to be introduced in three Welsh transition towns.

Central to the Transition Town movement is the idea that a life without oil could in fact be far more enjoyable and fulfulling than the present "by shifting our mind-set we can actually recognise the coming post-cheap oil era as an opportunity rather than a threat, and design the future low carbon age to be thriving, resilient and abundant – somewhere much better to live than our current alienated consumer culture based on greed, war and the myth of perpetual growth."


 

South Hobart Mural: Past, Present and Future

 

This project spun off from the “community building” subgroup.

This project aims to have a 96m mural painted on the prominent Cascade Road wall of the Southern Tasmanian Badminton Association (STBA). The mural will illustrate the human history of the area, as well as the present, and a positive vision of the future developed by the local community.

So how is this about Sustainability you ask???

Before we can consciously attempt to create a positive sustainable future, it is useful to know what it would look like. This is the idea behind creating the future panel. The vision of the future depicted will be created through two processes. Firstly, a community visioning workshop, attended by interested local residents. Secondly, a workshop at the local primary school, engaging local youth in envisioning their future. The visions and ideas that emerge from these workshops will be taken as the artist brief for that part of the mural. The artist will then interpret that and express this in a coherent artwork, to inspire the local community towards achieving their preferred future.  By painting it in a prominent place in our community, it will remind us of what we want, inspiring us and steering us towards such a vision.

Remembering and learning from our past is also critical in terms of our sustainable future. There are so many lessons we can learn, about what we want to do, as well as what we don't want to do, in the history of our local area. There are things we can learn from the pre-European Indigenous inhabitants of this place, as well as those who lived though the industrial and agricultural history of this place. The history aspect of the mural will be part of that learning process, helping us remember our past, providing opportunity to learn, then bring what we learn to our present day activities.

The artist/s will be given significant freedom in interpreting these concepts, to allow them to approach it in a unique and surprising way. This will go some way to preventing the possibility of the work being a simple narrative, or a stale traditional mural. The size of the mural, it's prominent  placement, and therefore it's significant impact on the psyche of South Hobart, mean it will need to walk the fine line of being uplifting and inspiring, while steering away from tackiness, or being overly challenging.

This concept is still being refined, and changed as more input comes in from different parts of the community.

If you would like to be involved, have ideas you are keep to input, or opinions you wish to express about this project, please contact Andrew Doube 0429 015 371.

 

  

Which artist/s?

The mural will be painted by local artists where possible. Interested artists will be invited to submit a portfolio of their work for exhibition, and local residents will vote for their preference.

The HCC has a streetscape plan covering the site of the mural, which requires that the mural be of the highest calibre. The very large size and visibility of the mural means the artistic content will either be a glaring success or a glaring failure. Professional, or professional standard, artists will be employed to ensure that the project is a glaring success.

 

The objectives of this project are:

1)      To inspire local residents, by giving expression to a positive community vision of what South Hobart could be.

2)      To depict and thereby 'bring to life' South Hobart’s human history, from indigenous times through to the present day.

3)      To improve the appearance of the 100m grey besser block wall on the main road, which many residents and tourist travel past every day.

4)      To strengthen community in South Hobart,

5)      To provide local artists with an opportunity to have there work displayed in a prominent and lasting way.

 

Rough Timeline

            In Feb an application to the Tasmanian Community Fund was submitted. The result has not yet been advised. During March to May of 2000, applications for funding through the Arts Tas Groups Fund and HCC Community Grant Fund will be submitted. During July and August artist/s will be chosen and the visioning workshops will be held. September will see the concept development and application to council for planning permissions. Painting will commence as soon as wether permits in spring and continue through until wether prevents further painting about April 2010. In early 2010 another grant application may be submitted to Arts Tas. The remaining panels will be completed in the summer of 2010-2011.

 

If you are interested in being part in this project please call / email Andrew Doube

0429 015 371

adoube@southhobart.org

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