Yarn bombing the Fawkner Community House

Posted on October 20, 2012 by | Leave a comment
Started work on the fence

Started work yarn bombing the fence

Ever heard of yarn bombing? It has become quite the rage in beautifying some of the common everyday street furniture around our suburbs, particularly in the inner city. Yarn bombing is a form of street art that uses colourful displays of knitted or crocheted wool or other fibres to create beautiful public spaces.

Come along and help yarn bomb the Community House mesh fence, parking sign poles and other street furniture around the Community House at the Market and Swap Party on Thursday 1st November. Help us to get the house looking pretty for the Open Day on Saturday 17 November 2012.
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Moreland Council election 2012 North East Ward Questionnaire on sustainability and environment for candidates

Posted on October 14, 2012 by | 2 comments

Update: Election results – Moreland Council gets a shakeup
Update: Candidate responses as of Monday 22 October.

Moreland Council Wards

Moreland Council Wards

Moreland Council election is occurring with polling day on Saturday 27 October 2012. In North East ward of Moreland Council covering the suburbs of Coburg, Coburg North and Fawkner we get to elect 4 councillors from the 24 candidates standing. You can check the candidate contact details on the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC).

Representative democracy is a sham without the views of candidates being made available for voters to be informed. If your like some of us, you like to know who you are voting for. With very little public exposure of candidates views, Sustainable Fawkner wanted to canvas the opinions and policies by candidates on sustainability and environmental issues which we are concerned about. Replies will be collated and published on this page as a public service to electors for North East Ward.
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Spring onto your bike for Ride to work Day

Posted on October 13, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Wednesday 17 October 2012 is Ride to work Day with thousands of people taking to their bicycles, tricycles and even unicycles to get to work, school or university. If your driving to work tomorrow, please take care, as always, of cyclists and welcome if this is your first Ride to Work Day as a cyclist.

Fawkner is safer than many other suburbs for cycling within the suburb with no major through roads and lots of quiet residential streets and the Upfield Bike Path, Merri Creek Bike Path and the Western Ring Road Path which all border the suburb.

For Ride2Work Day Moreland City Council have organised a community breakfast in Victoria Mall, outside Coburg Library, Coburg between 7.00am and 9.00am. Enjoy a healthy breakfast to help you on your way to work. Some of us will be riding down the Upfield Bike Path from Box Forrest Rd to enjoy the community breakfast before heading off to work or school.
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Fawkner Leisure Centre saving energy, reducing carbon footprint

Posted on July 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment

A new video by the Climate Commission features Moreland Council taking action on energy consumption and climate change resulting in reduced carbon emissions and substantial dollar savings for ratepayers.

In the video produced by the Climate Commission Stuart Nesbitt, the Climate Change Technical officer with Moreland council, explains in particular how putting in place energy efficiencies and optimisation has resulted in a better managed aquatic centre that reduces it’s energy consumption and carbon footprint while saving taxpayers money.

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Moreland Residents urge Replacing Hazelwood with clean energy

Posted on June 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Kelvin Thomson MP receiving the signed letter

Local Moreland residents presented a signed letter to Federal MP Kelvin Thomson urging the Federal Government to conclude negotiations to replace Hazelwood coal fired power station with clean energy. I attended from Sustainable Fawkner and photographed the event.

Read the report by John Englart published in Moreland Leader User contributed news section:
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Tree planting and Thinking outside the block on World Environment Day 2012

Posted on June 1, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Next Tuesday, June 5, is World Environment Day promoted by the United Nations Environment Program. The day has been commemorated since 1972, the first day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. This year the Wilderness society is organising an event in Melbourne CBD on Tuesday, but there are also local events along Merri Creek this Sunday June 3.
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Garden working bee at Moomba Park kindergarden

Posted on May 21, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Encouraging sustainability and environmental understanding can start from a young age. Moomba Park Kindergarten in Fawkner is building a vegetable, sensory and native garden for the children to explore and learn from. Come along to the working bee on Saturday June 2, 2012 to help establish this garden. The working bee may continue (if needed) on Sunday June 3,

Commencing at 10am, all volunteers are welcome to join us. Come for an hour or come for the day, any help is gratefully received. Address is: 65 Alec Crescent, Fawkner, VIC 3060

Jobs to be done range from ‘easy’ to ‘more skilled’. For more information, please contact me on 0438664322. Hope you can join us! It should be a rewarding weekend!

Cheers,
Kate

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Grow your own food information session

Posted on May 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Fawkner Library presents local garden consultant and designer Diana Cotter in a session discussing gardening and growing your own veggies at the Library. Diana Cotter is an experienced horticulturalist and sustainable gardening specialist.

When: Wednesday 30 May 2pm
Where: Fawkner Library
Bookings: 9355 4200

Discover how easy it is to start growing your own vegetables. Local garden consultant and designer Diana Cotter will take you through preparing soil, choosing vegetables, planting, feeding and watering. Come along and be inspired to create your own veggie patch and get some gardening advice.

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Can you Zero your Waste for a Week?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Take the Zero Waste for a week ChallengeThis year throughout the month of June Moreland City Council are asking residents to take the Zero Waste for a Week Challenge. The challenge is to not put anything in your rubbish bin but you can still recycle and compost throughout the week.

The first 50 Moreland residents to register will receive a free compost bin and the first 150 residents will receive a waste wise kit.

For more information or to register visit the Zero Waste for a week Challenge  or email send an email.
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No extension of Zone 1 to Gowrie Station in Baillieu 2012 budget

Posted on May 13, 2012 by | 2 comments
Time for Gowrie Station to become Zone 1

Upfield train approaching Gowrie Station

Gowrie Station remains as a zone 2 station after the State budget was handed down on May 1. Local residents of Fawkner and Hadfield have been pressing for Gowrie Station to be changed to Zone 1 status in a campaign over the last year.

In January Bronwyn Halfpenny, the local State member for Thomastown who represents Fawkner in State parliament, called on Transport Minister Mr Terry Mulder to tell Fawkner residents why “they must pay zone 2 public transport fares from a rail station that should clearly be in zone 1”. She explained in a news article in January 2012 in the Moreland Leader that Gowrie’s zoning is an anomaly and an inequity to local residents.
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