world environment day - 5 june

What will you be doing to mark this year's World Environment Day?

Here's a couple of things happening to mark the day.

Firstly The Wilderness Society are holding:

World Environment Day 2012: Think Outside the City Block
  
When: 1pm, Tuesday 5 June 2012, Melbourne CBD
Where: Corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets (bottom of Bourke St Mall)

Hundreds of people will join hands around one of Melbourne CBD’s 1 hectare city blocks on World Environment Day as a measure of the threat to our forests, oceans and wild places from logging and mining.

And for something more local that night...

Transition Sherbrooke & Sherbrooke Community Harvest are coming together to celebrate World Environment Day with a shared dinner and movie screening

When: Tuesday 5th June

Where: The Tin Shed, Belgrave
Details: Shared dinner at 6.30pm, Movie screening at 8pm
Cost: Gold coin donation, bring a plate of food to share

Movie to be chosen on the night!

For more information contact transitionsherbrooke@gmail.com or visit the website http://www.transitionsherbrooke.org.au/

World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. World Environment Day activities take place all year round but climax on 5 June every year, involving everyone from everywhere.

World Environment Day celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.

Want to know more, click here.

power of community comes to belgrave for earth hour

Local hills transition town group, Transition Sherbrooke, is holding a Power to the Community event in celebration of Earth Hour.

Starting with a shared community dinner and followed by a presentation by local, Prue Licht, who will share her personal experience of her visit to Cuba in 2011. The evening will conclude with a screening of The Power of Community - how Cuba survived peak oil.

When: Saturday 31 March - dinner 6:30, Cuba presentation 8:00pm, film screening 8:30pm, come along to all or whichever parts you're interested in
Where: Tin Shed, 1623 Burwood Hwy, Belgrave
Cost: gold coin donation and plate of food to share
Lights off: 8:30pm for Earth Hour

more info on facebook

locals feeding locals

What: Upwey Food Swap June 2010

Where: Magpie House, Main Street Upwey

When: 26 June 9-10am

Join the Next Food Swap - Meet,Buy,Sell,Swap your produce

This month will see the second Sherbrooke Transition Towns Food Swap. Produce available includes fresh fruit, vegetables, fresh herbs, plants, seeds, seedlings and eggs (although there aren't a lot of eggs around at the moment as some chooks are taking their winter break).

The Food Swap allows for growers to either swap, or sell home grown produce and Sherbrooke Transition Towns are keen to increase the number of growers. Their aim is to provide access to good healthy food while increasing local food availability.

The Sherbrooke Transition Town's food group wants to support you in combating the effects of climate change by reducing your family's food miles.

The Food Swap has been designed to create more community awareness around food issues along with increasing community resilience.

It is a great initiative and encourages those with surplus fruit and veg to stay local and swap for other fruit and veg.

If you'd like to know more please contact Michelle from Sherbrooke Transition Towns on 0409 526 862.