Community Building

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