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REUSEME 2011 FESTIVAL THEME KEY MESSAGE PARTNER MISSION SAFE CLIMATE In 2011 the Festival is But so what! How does climate change We have run out of time for half-measures. on a mission, a safe climate mission. affect us living here in ? Well It is now imperative that we form a sound strategy to ensure a safe climate There’s already too much carbon in the major damage to our ecological systems is restored – for all people, all species atmosphere and that’s heating up our planet threatens our way of life. The environment and all generations. at a staggering rate. But what does that mean? that we depend on relies on a stable Isn’t a hotter climate good for getting a tan climate that helps us to produce basic The next 10 years are critical for our planet. and hang’n at the beach? NO way! Heating up things like food and water supply, in fact, To protect our environment and to avoid the planet is causing crazy climate chaos; it’s our whole economy depends on it. tipping points in the climate system it is melting our ice caps, causing floods and sea Your country needs you for this vital necessary to act as fast as possible. levels to rise. mission. So step up and let’s cut our Harnessing the power of collaboration, emissions to restore a safe climate and The Transition Decade brings together sustainable future. an alliance of groups and individuals to The Festival is full of great ways to help you build a decade of change—all working take the leap and get down to ground zero together to define how a safe climate emissions. How carbon low can you go? can be achieved through lifestyle and technical change. To aid greater collaboration, The Transition Decade presents a shared time frame for action that aims to accelerate the scale, scope and speed of change. Many of the solutions are well within DROP INTO THE our reach. Now is the time to engage FESTIVAL ONLINE everyone, everywhere. Together we for full program details, visit can restore a safe climate. Join the Transition Decade Alliance today! www.slf.org.au/festival WWW.T10.NET.AU

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2 CAMO NAno-free sunscreen Meet special agents Kate ENERGY Stay sun smart Solar Powered ChargeR and avoid harmful & Craig who have joined the Support the push for 100% additives and mission for a safe climate. by 2020 chemicals Get the low-down on how to make a safe landing to ground zero emission in the next 10 years.

TUCKER KIT Organic Local Reusable Groceries water bottle Eat organic, Refuse, reduce, reuse local and plastic bottles and vegetarian when you can’t avoid it, recycle

TOOLS Garden Gloves & Trowel NATURE Grow food and compost in your Help protect local backyard plants & animals

TRANSPORT Tram Tracker Leave the car at home and jump on a tram, train or bus

THREADS WHEELS Organic fibRE Bike FOOTWEAR t-shirt & jeans Jump on a bike, Fair Trade THongs Support sustainable reduce carbon and Buy products that agriculture keep active protect worker’s rights 3 The Sustainable Living Festival presents

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6 SAT 19 FEB GREEN FAITH Sun 20 FEB CAN RELIGION GRASSROOTS FOOD, SAVE THE WORLD? RADIO GLORIOUSLY LIVE FESTIVAL Join Father Bob SUSTAINABLE BROADCAST Maguire and FOOD Q&A Join 3CR Radio for a members of What is “good” dynamic forum and GreenFaith Australia food? radio show live from to hear how faith Ask our panel of the Festival. communities are experts about 11 AM – 1 PM responding to the practical, sustainable ecological problems cooking and eating SUSTAINABLE we face and how faith options. HOMES Q&A communities can 11 AM – 12.30 PM discover a help tackle climate world of change. BIKE CITY possibilities 5.30 PM – 6.30 PM MELBOURNE IN Come and visit the Festival’s Our panel of TRANSITION FRI 18 FEB experts answer KEVIN RUDD How can Melbourne GREENING YOUR IS THE GREATEST coolest new venue: The your questions further its cycling OFFICE MORAL Green House, profiling hot about sustainable landscape and make WORKING CHALLENGE architecture and cycling the top choice issues and cool solutions for TOWARDS ZERO design. The Ruddster is of transport in town? WASTE our planet. The program 1.30 PM – 3.30 PM back for the Festival 1 PM – 2.30 PM includes a range of events Stories of Melbourne with a little help featuring some of Australia’s businesses effectively GREEN GLEE CLUB from comedy legend VASILI’S GARDEN engaging staff in THE GREENEST Anthony Ackroyd and FOOD & GREEN renowned environmental brains waste minimisation. CHOIR IN TOWN he’s ZIPPING OFF on ORGANICS – FROM and brawn. Events include Presented by Join in the fun as Climate Change! YOUR KITCHEN eco-forums, comedy and music Metropolitain Waste Melbourne’s hippest 7 PM (DOUBLE BILL) TO THE GARDEN & to rock our world. The unique Management Group. sing-along choir go BACK AGAIN 8.30 AM – 10.30 AM green. PARDON MY Learn how to give experience of The Green House, 4 PM – 5 PM CARBON yourself and your the Green gig ROD QUANTOCK coupled with its diverse and garden a health Kickstart your Rod Quantock rips check by closing topical program of events, will weekend at the apart crucial election the loop on your ensure its place as a highlight festival club bar topics. Discover kitchen and garden and enjoy some hip of Melbourne’s summer events why he is one of scraps. Presented by swinging tunes from calendar. Melbourne’s living Metropolitan Waste Saritah, Damon treasures. Management Group. Smith and the 7 PM (DOUBLE BILL) 3 PM – 4.30 PM Quality Lightweights and The Conch. 7 PM

7 Metropolitan Waste MOUNTAIN GOAT & raw wine Management Group presents and beer PRESENTS GREENING THE YOUR GREEN GIG GREEN MUSIC OFFICE & DRINKS WORKING TOWARDS FRI 18 FEB Kick-start your weekend at the 7 pM House, ZERO WASTE festival club bar and enjoy some Green rr The ung Ma hip swinging tunes by the Yarra river. Birrar T EE EVEN Listen to stories of Melbourne businesses Pedal powered event! FR that are effectively engaging staff in waste minimisation to create an office culture of FEATURING ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’. Find out their Saritah secrets to success and be inspired to start Damon Smith and the aiming for ‘zero waste’ in your own workplace. Quality Lightweights FRI 18 FEB This event is an initiative of the Waste 8.30 AM–10.30 AM The Conch Wise Melbourne Network and is proudly The Gr B een Hou sponsored by the Metropolitan Waste irrarung Ma se, Management Group. Free rr Event

8 3CR Radio presents GRASSROOTS RADIO LIVE FESTIVAL BROADCAST

Join 3CR radio for a dynamic forum and radio show broadcast live from the Festival. Covering climate change, urban transport, marine conservation and earth sharing SAT 19 FEB 11 AM–1 PM se, principles as well as a lively Q&A session. een Hou The Gr rr Hosted by 3CR radio, producing rung Ma Birra ent independent radio for nearly 35 years. Free Ev

Live to air shows at the festival Hosted by Dave Earth Matters Sweeney National Local & international Nuclear Campaigner environmental issues from for the Australian grassroots perspectives Conservation with a strong social Foundation. justice bent. Melbourne Glee Club Presents Beyond Zero Renegade Emissions Economists Community campaigns Anti-nuclear program around the country with up-to-date news GREEN and the latest zero and information on emission solutions. nuclear, peace and Out of the Blue energy issues. GLEE CLUB Covering the marine & THE GREENEST coastal environment; with new scientific CHOIR IN TOWN discoveries, plants SAT 19 FEB 4 PM – 5 PM and animals. Join in the fun as Melbourne’s hippest The sing-a-long choir goes green—who knows, Green Birr Hous there might even be a chance for the arung Ma e, Free rr audience to join the chorus. Event

9 MWC0051 Electrolux Green Quest Green vacuum cleaners are the hybrid cars of the home – yet not many people are aware that a green home upgrade is possible in our living rooms as well as our garages. At the moment, Electrolux is able to manufacture Green Range vacuum cleaners made from 55% recycled plastics. The aim is to reach 100%, for cleaner homes and a cleaner world.

Left: UltraOne Green Right: Vac from the Sea, Pacific Edition, made out of plastic debris from the Pacific Ocean

Share more of our thinking at www.electrolux.com/vacfromthesea

Live sustainabLy and buiLd a raingarden to protect your LocaL waterways. Sustainable home designs often lead to innovative solutions, but it’s sometimes the simple ones that can be just as effective. By building a raingarden in your backyard you will help your local waterways and contribute to healthier rivers and creeks. A raingarden resembles a regular garden only that it receives stormwater from hard surfaces such as roofs, driveways and paved areas. Layers of sandy soil and plants help filter pollutants that build up on these hard surfaces that would otherwise be washed into our stormwater system, rivers and creeks. For more info visit our stand on the river promenade or visit melbournewater.com.au/raingardens The Sustainable Living festival presents

SUSTAINABLE SAT 19 FEB 1.30 PM – 3.30 PM The Gr B een Hou irrarung Ma se, HOMES Q&A Free rr WHERE YOU ASK THE Event SUSTAINABLE QUESTIONS

Discover a world of possibilities Hosted by Costa Georgiadis star of Costa’s Garden Odyssey as our panel of Sustainable Tamsin O’Neill Green Magazine and Treadlie Home experts guide you Chris Chinchilla Green Renters through the latest innovative Phil Edwards Melbourne Water practices in sustainable Verity Campbell Sanctuary Magazine architecture and design. Marie Wallin Planet Architecture

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eb PARDON Sat 19 F se, 7 PM (DOUBLEeen Hou BILL) The Gr rr arung Ma MY CARBON Birr K $20 BOO ROD QUANTOCK ONLINE A master of comedy as social criticism, Rod Quantock is hilarious, accessible and passionate. Changing the world is never so much fun as when you do SAT 19 FEB it in the company of Rod Quantock. 7 PM (DOUBLE BILL) The Gr B een Hou irrarung Ma se, $20 B rr OOK ONLINE

Anthony Ackroyd presents KEVIN RUDD IS THE GREATEST MORAL CHALLENGE

He may have been dumped along with his climate change policies, but the Ruddster is back for the Festival with a little help from comedy legend Anthony Ackroyd. He’s ZIPPING OFF on climate change! “Imaginative, witty, delightful...” The Age

12 COMEDY FOR COMEDY FOR FEATURE FEATURE CLIMATE DOUBLE CLIMATE DOUBLE Sat 5.30 19 Feb OVERLOADING pm–6.30 PM GREEN Green B Hou irrarung Mase Free rr THE PLANET FAITH Event WHAT IS A SUSTAINABLE CAN RELIGION POPULATION? SAVE THE WORLD?

Some may ask, is it not God’s will that Join Mark O’Connor, co-author of Overloading Father Bob Australia, discusses the facts buried beneath humans exploit nature? Others argue that Maguire and the population debate. What are the limits to religion’s relationship to the environment members of global and Australian population growth? is misunderstood. Religion, they say, GreenFaith Australia honours the earth as the mother and for this fascinating nurturer of all life. and entertaining SAT 19 forum. 1 PM How are faith communities responding to GUM ER THE the major ecological problems we face? Rabbi Jonathan UND ENT TALKS T rr Can religious leaders mobilise faith Keren-Black arung Ma communities to tackle climate change Birr iver Jessiee Kaur Singh Yarra R within a meaningful time frame? Jeneefer Makbool EVENT FREE Uncle Reg Blow O SBS TV T P HO

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Simply recycle your old mobiles & accessories or pick up a free recycling satchel at the MobileMuster stand during the Sustainable Living Festival. MobileMuster will donate $1 for every 2 kgs of mobiles received.*

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Gette Dealers: Call 1300 730 070 to find your nearest drop FLEMINGTON RICHMOND off point or visit www.mobilemuster.com.au Flemington Cycles Bike Force 450 Racecourse Road 03 9376 9933 53-55 Burnley Street 03 9429 6858 * MobileMuster will donate one dollar to The Alannah and Madeline Foundation for every HIGHETT CHELSEA two kilograms of handsets, batteries, chargers and accessories sent in for recycling by Terry Hammond Cycles Mainline Cycles 31 May 2011. Up to $20,000 will be donated. All mobiles are recycled to the highest 497 Highett Road 03 9555 8263 494 Nepean Highway 03 9773 8488 environmental standards, none are refurbished or sold into developing countries. The Ethical Consumer Group presents FOOD, Metropolitan Waste SUN 20 FEB GLORIOUSLY Management Group presents 3 PM–4.30 PM The Gr B een Hou irrarung Ma se, Free rr SUSTAINABLE VASILI’S Event FOOD Q&A GARDEN What is ‘good’ food? Sharpen your gastronomic FOOD & GREEN ORGANICS skills and learn about practical sustainable cooking and eating options from our panel —FROM YOUR KITCHEN TO of culinary experts. THE GARDEN & BACK AGAIN Hosted by Giselle Wilkinson author of The Conscious Cook Join renown garden guru Vasili Daniel Mackey Fair Trade Association and learn how to give yourself Nick Ray Ethical Consumer Guide and your garden a health check Angela Crocombe author of Ethical Eating by closing the loop on your Rick Coleman Southern Cross kitchen and garden scraps. Better for you, your garden and the environment.

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15 Melbourne Bikefest presents EXHIBITION BIKE BIKE TOWN YOU’LL LOVE TO MEET THESE TWO WHEELED LOCALS

Every town has its characters and no FRI 18 – two bikes are the same. Bike Town SUN 20 FEB celebrates the unique qualities of 10 aM–6 PM Want to know what sustainable f every bike (and the characters that ed squa Free re printing and paper feel like? ride them) in this interactive display. Event Who will be the mayor of Bike Town, the Beauty Queen or the Sports Star? Complete Colour Printing practice Environmentally Responsible Cast your vote to decide with great Printing (ERP). ERP means responsible paper choice, clean prizes to be won! production methods, green procurement policies, employee involvement, community support and formal environmental www.melbournebikefest.com.au prodcedures. For a quality print with a completely clear conscience contact Complete Colour Printing. Proud to be partner of the Sustainable Living Festival.

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FSC Supplier Quality Environment SCS-COC-000836 Promoting sustainable forest ISO 9001 ISO 14001 The mark of responsible forestry management © 1996 Forest Council A.C. www.pefc.org This program is printed by Complete Colour Printing on recycled Forest Stewardship Council approved paper. The Sustainable Living FESTIVAL presents EXHIBITION BIKE BIKE CITY MELBOURNE IN TRANSITION

Spend your Sunday with some of Melbourne’s biggest bike advocates as they explore the city’s rapidly growing and diverse cycling culture. Join this lively discussion on how Melbourne can further its cycling landscape and make cycling the top choice of transport in town. Hosted by Charlie Pickering Adam Bandt Federal Member for Melbourne Professor Rob Adams Director City Design, City of Melbourne Pip Carroll Director of Melbourne BikeFest

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SAT 19 & SUN 20 dirtgirl 12 pm, 2 B pm, 3 Live & grubby irrarung Mapm Free rr at the Festival Event Come and get grubby with Australia’s highest rating TV star dirtgirl at the Festival’s Big Weekend. Meet this gumboot-wearing girl who loves to explore the natural world, grows awesome tomatoes and even knows cloud names. dirtgirl can show you a place where we protect what we love.

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ECO-CUBBY FRI 18–SUN 27 FEB Wed – Fri weekends 10 AM – 2 PM EXHIBITION 12 PM – 4 PM During 2010, 8 Victorian schools and Art Birr Play, 1 Kindergarten joined the Eco-Cubby project, arung Ma Free rr working with professional architects to learn Event the principals of . Come and see how young participants interpret design principals to create cubby house models.

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SAT 19 &eb SUN 20 F Craft 12 PM–4 PM rr arung Ma Make your own all 100% spinning Birr VENT FREE E wind powered toy, made from salvaged materials – pin and windmill models.

City of Melbourne Park Rangers presents FRI 18 & SAT 19 F JUNIOR 10 AM–2 PMeb Art B Play, RANGERS irrarung Ma A great way for children and families to FR rr EE EV CONNECTING have positive fun and engage with the local ENT parks, gardens and waterways. Create your PEOPLE WITH own creatures and habitat using gum nuts, PARKS leaves, seed pods and found objects. 19 AUSTRALIA! spix LET THE o J e r m y P ip / N ew t SUNSHINE IN Pho This is a fantastic piece 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY of work. Our response to climate change must THE INSIDE STORY be guided by science; the science tells us This is the story of an inspiring This blueprint plan utilises international that we have already knowledge and experience, using already proven exceeded the safe upper plan to power Australia with solar-thermal and wind technologies; available limit for atmospheric 100% renewable energy within right now. It’s detailed, costed and ready to carbon dioxide. We are, the next 10 years. We’re talking implement. as humans, conducting a massive science Australia has a decision to make; whether to baseload renewable energy experiment with this continue with 19th century fossil fuel technologies, supplied around the clock, planet, it is the only or become a part of 21st century global renewable planet we’ve got. 24 hours a day, by the sun energy boom. The boldness and the ambition and wind, our two biggest of this plan has attracted over 100 volunteer Malcolm Turnbull MP renewable assets here in engineers and scientists to work on it for free. Australia. They’re smart, dedicated people with the right practical experience and know-how. New facts on climate are constantly emerging, and we the public are rightly debating the issue. But regardless of how this conversation evolves, it is clear that taking a risk management approach to climate change is the best way to tackle the issue. The Zero Carbon Energy Australia project is showing that it is well within the capacity of the Australian economy to move to 100% renewable energy within a decade; and it is affordable. It is the best safeguard against the environmental and economic risk of doing nothing or doing too little, too late. The plan has also received the backing of some very high profile Australians who are united by the desire for more practical planning and ultimately Australia’s transition to a 100% renewable economy. 20 spix spix y k e / N ew a Wi ll i ms / N ew o Lis o Ala n P r t t Pho Pho

The Zero Carbon An ambitious, Australia Project technically feasible acknowledges that plan that should be we must move to looked at seriously. a renewable future Tim Flannery in order to combat climate change and safeguard our environment for generations to come. Cate Blanchett Atherton Georgetown

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Under the Plan 100% Longreach Australia could Charleville meet 100% of it’s Carnarvon electricity needs renewables Roma with 60% solar is possible! thermal power and Stanthorpe 40% wind power Geraldton Silverton Moree Bourke within 10 years. Kalgoorie Port Augusta Walcha Ceduna Dubbo Streaky Bay Yongala Orange GET Bunbury Esperance Port Lincoln Mildura Crookwell INVOLVED Albany Cape Jaffa Cooma Find out more Ballarat at the 100% Port Fairy Renewables Forum Key Wonthaggi SAT 19 FEB 3.30 pm Solar Plants BMW Edge Fed Square Wind Farm (see page 29) 21 CUTTING EDGE IDEAS & ACTION

In 2011 the Sustainable Living Festival will present a six day program of events in the heart of the City of Melbourne. BMW Edge, Fed Square.

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HOW do we FEED COOL IT! The Great debate eco-cities WHY ARE WE & CLOTHE THE TACKLING Gilbert Rouchcouste, WAITING? WORLD IN 2050? CLIMATE CHANGE IS FAILING, Or is innovative Place- CLIVE ABC Journalist Fran Local commentators it on the verge Maker and Eco-City HAMILTON with Kelly will facilitate providing a of creating a visionary shares INTRODUCTION a diverse panel snapshot on zero transition to a his story of working FROM DAVID of leaders from net emissions, safe climate future for the world. SUZUKI science, agriculture, carbon pricing Hear David Suzuki 10 AM – 10.40 AM Clive Hamilton community and policy and budgeting, and some of speaks about how sectors debating the transition initiatives Australia’s foremost ZERO CARBON dire the future looks question How do we and community environmentalists HOUSING and how little time feed and clothe the resilience. reflect on the AUSTRALIA’S we have to act on world in 2050? 6 PM – 7.30 PM successes and failures HOUSING FUTURE climate. 5.30 PM – 7.30 PM of the environment Learn about the 11 AM – 1 PM movement. detailed planning and 7 PM – 8.30 PM delivery of Australia’s NATURE COST $25 first Zero Carbon NEAR YOU Housing project THE POWER at Cape Paterson. OF STORY 11 AM – 1 PM Hear how stories engage, connect and MURRAY DARLING motivate people and – CROSSING THE communities to DIVIDe bring about change. to Oliver Hodge Pho RESCUING OUR Presented by Victoria GREAT RIVERS Naturally Alliance. AND SECURING 1.30 PM – 3 PM REGIONAL FUTURES Professor Barry Hart, MICHAEL John Pettigrew, Rob REYNOLDS Oakeshott MP and THE ART OF Kelly O’Shanassy. CARBON ZERO 1.30 PM – 3 PM LIVING d . MacDonal World-renowned 100% RENEWABLES renegade architect

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t Michael Reynolds A BIG IDEA Pho discusses the art Beyond Zero of living a carbon Emissions has a zero lifestyle. plan showing how 3.30 PM – 5 PM Australia can make the shift to 100% renewable energy by 2020 with the use of existing technology. 3.30 PM – 5 PM 23 Future Stories PROJECT PRESENTS Victoria Naturally Alliance presents eco-cities NATURE with Gilbert Rouchcouste NEAR YOU—

The Future Stories Project features THE POWER inspiring change agents sharing their personal story of how OF STORY they've sustained Listen to experts use both theory and hope, passion and practical examples to present how resilience in their stories can be a powerful tool in changing work for the world. behaviour. Hear how stories can engage, Come and hear connect and motivate people and Gilbert Rouchcouste, communities to bring about change in innovative the current climate and biodiversity crisis. placemaker and eco- Dr Siwan Lovett Director, city visionary in this Australian River Restoration Centre special presentation. Frank Ryan Vox Bandicoot

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24 The Sustainable Living Festival presents the Great Debate BROADCAST PARTNER ENVIRONMENTALISM IS FAILING Or is it on the verge of creating a FRI 18 FEB transition to a safe climate future? 7 PM BM W Edge, Fed Squar $25 e

Gear up for this one; it’s the Festival Great Debate. David Suzuki World-renowned scientist, broadcaster & activist Hear some of Australia’s foremost environmentalists Ian Lowe President of the Australian Conservation Foundation reflect on the successes and failures of the Senator Christine Milne Deputy Leader of environment movement. Don’t miss this feature Clive Hamilton Author and public intellectual event as speakers present their case for a way Anna Rose Co-founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition forward for environmentalism in the 21st century. Philip Sutton Author of Climate Code Red & Co-founder of Safe Climate Australia This event will be filmed for ABC TV. Moderated by Julia Zemiro Brought to you by TICKETS $25 ON SALE NOW BOOK ONLINE WWW.SLF.ORG.AU/FESTIVAL 25 PICCC IN ASSOCIATION WITH CCRSPI CONFERENCE PRESENTS WED 16 FEB 5.30 PM W Edge, BM re d Squa HOW DO WE FEED Fe ent & CLOTHE THE Free Ev t ca WORLD IN 2050? t h Mu s a O C T ABC Journalist Fran Kelly will facilitate Hosted by ABC Journalist Fran Kelly P HO a diverse panel of leaders from science, Professor Swaminathan acclaimed Indian agriculture, community and policy sectors agricultural scientist and philanthropist debating the question How do we feed Matthew Wright Founder and Director and clothe the world in 2050? of MATTHEW WRIGHT A MAN ON A MISSION 2010 Environment Minister’s Young Environmentalist of the Year …and Director of Beyond Zero Emissions, talks about how Australia WED 16 FEB can transition to a zero carbon land 5.30 pm BMW Ed use strategy. The Zero Carbon Fe ge, d Squa Australia Plan is a bold idea to Fr re ee Even (see full e t develop a blueprint for the transition de ven tails A t to a decarbonised Australian BOVE) economy by 2020.

26 Melbourne Conversations— Cape Paterson presents The City of Melbourne’s Program of Free Talks presents ZERO COOL IT! CARBON TACKLING HOUSING AUSTRALIA’S CLIMATE SAT 19 FEB HOUSING FUTURE 11 AM BM W Edge, Fed S CHANGE Climate change, together with increasing quare Free The Cancun Summit outcomes are modest energy and water costs, demand a move to EVENT yet hopeful, but what’s happening locally and housing that captures water, generates clean what does it mean for you? Commentators energy and is zero carbon. What are the costs will provide a snapshot on zero net emissions, and payback times of achieving this in today’s carbon pricing and budgeting, transition market? Learn about the detailed planning initiatives and community resilience. Plus a and delivery of Australia’s first Zero Carbon first hand experience of Cancun achievements Housing project at Cape Paterson. Listen to and future global challenges. Update your the builders and designers involved in the knowledge and ask that difficult question. project and learn about the designs, costs and guidelines of building operationally Keynote address zero carbon housing projects of scale. by Cr Cathy Oke City of Melbourne Brendan Condon Hosted by Peter Director, Cape Mares The National Paterson Ecovillage Interest, ABC Radio Peter Reefman National Energised Homes builder & designer of zero carbon houses Tony O’Connell Director & builder, THU 17 FEB TS Constructions 6 PM – 7.30 PM W Edge, Wonthaggi BM re d Squa Ashleigh Beaumont Fe ent Free Ev Director & designer, Beaumont Concepts, Wonthaggi

www.capepatersonecovillage.com.au 27 The Sustainable Living Festival presents WHY ARE WE WAITING? CLIVE HAMILTON talks climate action

Clive Hamilton public intellectual and author of Requiem for a Species, speaks about how dire the future looks and how little time we have to act on climate. He reflects on our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts about climate change. Introduction by David Suzuki

SUN 20 FEB 11 AM–1 PM W Edge, BM re d Squa Fe ent Free Ev s o t a x Pho irf Shea r gol d / Fa O A n dr ew T P HO Beyond Zero Emissions presents 100% RENEWABLES MORE THAN A BIG IDEA

This inspiring feature Festival forum SAT 19 FEB explores two remarkable plans that show 3.30 PM – 5 PM we have the technical capacity to roll out BMW Ed Fe ge, d Squa 100% baseload renewable energy for both Free re Australia and the rest of the world. Event This is more than just a big idea it’s

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MIT4110_196x96_Ad.indd 1 11/01/11 12:37 PM Peri-Urban Permaculture presents MICHAEL MURRAY REYNOLDS DARLING— THE ART OF CARBON ZERO LIVING CROSSING

World renowned renegade THE DIVIDE architect Michael Reynolds RESCUING OUR GREAT discusses the art of living a carbon zero lifestyle. Learn RIVERS AND SECURING how to build self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities from REGIONAL FUTURES the man dubbed the “Garbage Warrior” for his choice of materials used to produce Sat thermal mass and energy- 1.30 PM 19 – 3Feb PM independent housing. BMW Ed Fe ge, d Squa Free re Event SUN 20 FEB 3.30 PM – 5 PM W Edge, BM re d Squa Fe ent Free Ev

Rob Oakeshott Federal Member for Lyne Kelly O’Shanassy Environment Victoria CEO Barry Hart member of the Board of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority John Pettigrew Environmental Farmers Network 31 ON The Big SCREEN fed square, fri 18 Feb

NO BAG IT FRI 18 FEB Is your life too plastic ? IMPACT 8.30 PM Fed sq Ma uare What happens when an everyday guy starts MAN in Stage Free looking into seemingly innocuous single use Event plastic bags and discovers genetically altering Opening the 2009 chemicals in his everyday life? “Bag It!” is the Sundance Film story of Jeb Berrier, an everyday guy who starts Festival, see how this on a journey and ends up changing his whole Manhattan-based outlook on plastics and the world. family abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and live a year while making no net environmental impact.

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4 PM vid C Fed sq celebrating performances from coastal Some of Melbourne’s favorite bands uare Ma and saltwater country communities a p h: Da give it 100% for this special gig. in Stage

Free e facing the potential impact of climate og r Come along and make some noise vent t e rt s u pp l i e d cou I m age to promote Australia’s transition change and rising sea levels. Pho to 100% renewable energy. FEATURING FEATURING King Kadu Alex Gow (Oh Mercy) Andrew Manok The Orbweavers Joe Geia Dick Diver Acequia

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33 oxfam australia presents Tides Of Resilience Photographic Exhibition FRI 18 – SUN 20 FEB The beautiful works of Open Daily Photographer Rodney Dekker 10 am from – 5 pm documents the impacts BMW EDGE, Federa of climate change on the tion Squar vulnerable communities of Fr e ee Even Bangladesh and shows the t power of human innovation, determination and resilience in the face of adversity. D E KK R o R O D NEY t

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THE LITTER SISTERS This well-heeled trio are performing up a storm on litter prevention and storm-water quality. Proudly brought to you by Banyule Council, Metropolitan Group and Melbourne Water’s Raingardens Program. SAT 19 | 12 PM – 3 PM CAPTAIN SMOGBUSTER Captain Smogbuste, flying in to smog spots over the Festival’s big weekend. FRI 18 | 12 pm THE GREEN GURU The Green Guru is here to help explain the mysteries of green, wise and all consulting, The Guru always knows… Sat 19 & Sun 20 | 12 PM – 5 PM THE CONNIES The Connies is a performance troupe of the Melbourne Tram tradition. Connies collectables track environmental and social themes. Sat 19 & Sun 20 | 12 PM – 3 PM INSPECTOR DETECTIVE GREEN Inspector Detective Green: moustachioed and mysterious, the Green Super-sleuth. Dusting for Carbon Footprints. Sat 19 & Sun 20 | 2 PM – 5 PM 35 melbourNe & BEYOND BRINGING SUSTAINABILITY TO YOUR FRONT DOOR

BENDIGO COMMUNITY FARMERS OUR LIVING CLIMATE MARKET & SUSTAINABLE LIVING DAY planitarium show Showcasing the best of fresh, regional and A visually spectacular story which reveals THE FORCE seasonal produce. An opportunity to learn how climate evolved and is transformed by OF YOUTH new cooking, gardening and sustainable weather patterns, ice ages and new life forms. living skills. SAT 12 FEB – SUN 27 FEB | 2 PM SAT 12 FEB | 9 AM – 1 PM SCIENCEWORKS, For over a decade now the SIDNEY MYER PLACE, ROSALIND PARK 2 BOOKER ST, SPOTSWOOD Sustainable Living Festival’s END OF WILLIAMSON ST, BENDIGO COST $13 ADULTS/$4 CONCESSION/$3.50 Education Day has been CHILDREN | INCLUDES GENERAL ENTRY BANYULE EDIBLE GARDENS TOUR inspiring schools students Choose one of three local tours of local produce THE ART OF GARDENING SUSTAINABLY to accelerate their up take of gardens. Bookings essential, call 03 9455 2581 An exhibition to spread the word about sustainable living. This year or email [email protected]. . Native plants, students from across Victoria SAT 12 Feb | 9.30 am – 2 pm weed control, composting, water efficiency (includes lunch) & natural pest control! will converge at the Festival’s Olympic Village Primary School, SAT 12 FEB – SUN 27 MAR | 9 AM – 5 PM Education Day for a special West Heidelberg OR Rosanna Fire 7 DAYS A WEEK forum with David Suzuki. Station Community House, Rosanna BOLIN BOLIN GALLERY, BULLEEN OR Community Garden, Ivanhoe ART & GARDEN, 6 MANNINGHAM RD, This inspirational event will COST $10 ADULT $5 CONCESSION WEST BULLEEN be launched by The Hon. Children under 15 yrs free SUSTAINABLE FUN FOR KIDS Martin Dixon, MP. GET ENERGY SMART! Be in a human sized board game, eco art MAJOR PARTNER Understand electricity bill figures and what workshops & lots more. Parents can tour they actually mean. Get to know your Smart the energy efficient EcoCentre. Meter and see solar energy in action. Speakers SUN 13 FEB | 11 AM – 5 PM include: Damian Moyse from the Alternative PORT PHILLIP ECOCENTRE, Technology Association and Cate Lawrence CNR HERBERT & BLESSINGTON STS, from Green Renters. ST KILDA SAT 12 FEB | 9.30 AM – 12 PM BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED PORT PHILLIP ECO-CENTRE, www.ecocentre.com CNR HERBERT & BLESSINGTON STS, ST KILDA URBAN PERMACULTURE IN ACTION BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL How to design and build an urban backyard EMAIL [email protected] food forest. See a conventional backyard that has been transformed into a rich, productive, biodiverse edible food forest. SUN 13 FEB | 2 PM – 3 PM 53 DUNDAS ST, PRESTON 36 AUSTRALASIAN PREMIERE FORCE OF NATURE:

THE DAVID SUZUKI SUN 20 F Doors eb open at 7 pm FULL EV MOVIE EN DET T FILM SCREENING WITH AILS BELOW LIVE INTRODUCTION FROM DAVID SUZUKI

David Suzuki, iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist delivers a ‘last lecture’ — what he describes as “a distillation of my life and thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die”. The film interweaves the lecture with scenes from the places and events in Suzuki’s life — creating a biography of ideas — forged by the major social, scientific and cultural events of the past 70 years.

SUN 20 Feb Doors open at 7 pm Screening starts at sundown, approximately 8.35 pm Ford Fiesta Moonlight Cinema. Royal Botanic Gardens. Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra. Enter the cinema via Gate D and follow the path to the Central Lawn Adult $18/Child $14/Concession $16/Senior $14 www.moonlight.com.au 37 World’s Biggest Green Royal Botanic Gardens Drinks 2011 presents Melbourne presents THE 500 LITTLE BIRDS, CLOTHING IDEAS! BINOCULARS EXCHANGE Super-savvy ladies swapping 500 Little Ideas for big positive change, an AND bags-full of fashions innovative networking event to host, hatch and celebrate little ideas that will evolve BOTANICS Bring 6 garments to enter back into into big projects. Win Yammer Packages, GUIDED BIRD & GARDEN TOUR the system and swap for something new! Hub Melbourne Memberships and 500 bottles from Little Creatures Brewing! From coots to cormorants, sprightly Blue WED 23 FEB Wrens to stately swans, experience the 6.30 PM Pre registered tickets $5 diverse range of birds that live in the Royal BMW EDGE, Fed square (Including 1 free beer or cider) Botanic Gardens. Finish at The Terrace for a COST $25 delicious morning tea. Young bird-watchers PRE-PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE especially welcome. www.clothingexchange.com.au THUR 17 FEB SUN 20 & 27 FEB pm 8.30 AM – 10.30 am 5.30 WED 23 FEB KEY WHEEL e Royal Botanic Gardens DON rk 6.30 PM SE 673 Bourne Melbourne Birdwood Avenue, HOU bou BMW treet Mel red South Yarra. Meet at the Visitor EDGE, S egiste Centre, Observatory Gate Fed sq Pre r F uare ckets $5 $18 adult/$14 concession/ ULL EV ti DET ENT $55 family (2 adults and up AILS BELOW to 3 children)

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38 BAW BAW SOCIAL GARDEN FAST TRACK TRANSPORT FOR BULLEEN GARDEN VEGGIE SWAP Get involved in this organic community SUSTAINABLE CITIES Share your produce and take some home in garden! Raised garden beds are excellent This Metropolitan Transport Forum event return! Bring veggies, fruit, herbs, preserves, for drainage and you can join in for some will cover how to plan for cities, land use, seeds and swap for something different. low-intensity, social gardening. transport planning, metropolitan rail services, SAT 19 FEB | 10 AM – 11 AM TUES 15 & 22 FEB | 9 AM – 10 AM and high-speed rail. BULLEEN ART & GARDEN, GARDEN AT YARRAGON MEDICAL CENTRE, WED 16 FEB | 4.45 PM – 7 PM 6 MANNINGHAM RD, WEST BULLEEN 1 CAMPBELL ST, YARRAGON SWANSTON HALL, LEVEL 1, MELBOURNE www.bbsn.org.au TOWN HALL, SWANSTON ST, MELBOURNE URBAN REFORESTATION GARDEN BOOKINGS BY 14 FEB “the Docklands best kept secret” The Age, LIFE CYCLE THINKING & EMAIL: [email protected] 2010. Enjoy a vegetarian BBQ, explore the SUSTAINABLE DECISION-MAKING garden and get a snapshot of the Urban A workshop exploring the life cycle based HOME BIKE MECHANICS Reforestation workshops. impacts of products. Ideal for designers, THE HUMAN POWERED WAY SAT 19 FEB | 12 PM – 3 PM architects, business, marketing and Brush up on basic bike maintenance URBAN REFORESTATION GARDEN, NORTH sustainability experts. Speakers include: & learn about tyres, technique and chains. WHARF, VICTORIA HARBOUR, DOCKLANDS Tim Grant Life Cycle Assessment Expert & Bring your bike, old clothes and a notepad. Leyla Acaroglu Director Of Eco Innovators. WED 16 FEB | 6.15 PM – 8.30 PM CRACK THE SHELL, LIVELIHOODS TUE 15 FEB | 10 AM – 1 PM HUMAN POWERED CYCLES, & LIFESTYLE DONKEY WHEEL HOUSE, 562 HIGH ST, THORNBURY As a group or community, learn how to 673 BOURKE ST, MELBOURNE COST $55 | PREPAYMENT REQUIRED address modern sustainable lifestyle issues COST $60 EMPLOYED/$30 STUDENT BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL together. www.eventbrite.com/event/979572929 EMAIL [email protected] SAT 19 FEB | 12.30 PM – 3 PM PHONE 03 9029 6504 GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY ECOCENTRE, BRISBANE ZERO CARBON AUSTRALIA www.humanpowered.com.au COST DONATION How can Australia use proven technologies RSVP [email protected] to transition to renewable energy by 2020? HOME PERMACULTURE www.envirobusiness.org/public/ Find out how with Beyond Zero Emissions! GARDEN & RETROFIT TUE 15 FEB | 6.30 PM – 7.30 PM An opportunity to tour a permaculture ARTIST TALK ‘COROLLARY’ ENVIRONMENT RESOURCE CENTRE, garden and energy efficient house. Learn Jeweller Elfrun Lach discusses her current ALTONA LIBRARY, about energy and water efficiency, plus exhibition and raises the question of ethical 123 QUEEN ST, ALTONA growing your own food. supply and usage of red coral. BOOK ONLINE FRI 18 FEB & SAT 19 FEB | 10 AM – 4 PM SAT 19 FEB | 2 pm 03 9932 1330 OR 16 CURRAJONG ST, NORTH DANDENONG CRAFT VICTORIA, 31 FLINDERS LANE, www.zerocarbon.eventbrite.com www.beinggreen.net.au MELBOURNE www.craftvic.org.au NATURAL GOAT & POULTRY CARE TASTING TUBBUT COMMUNITY LUNCH Keeping goats and poultry is increasingly Are you a Tubbut, Deddick, Bonang, popular for backyard production. This is the Goongerah local? Guests to lunch bring common sense approach to caring for goats a dish to highlight local ingredients and poultry. Speaker: Pat Coleby – Author they’ve produced. & Expert On Animal Care. FRI 18 FEB | 12 PM – 3 PM TUBBUT HALL, TUBBUT, EAST GIPPSLAND WED 16 FEB | 11 AM – 12 PM @ DAYLESFORD LIBRARY, RSVP BY 16 FEB tubbutnh bigpond.com CNR BRIDPORT & ALBERT STS, DAYLESFORD BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL PHONE (03) 5348 2800 39 Museum Victoria presents Melbourne Bike Polo Club presents Leadbeater’s SMALL HARDCOURT Possum FOOTPRINT BIKE POLO Our state emblem under fire TOUR AT GAMES The Leadbeater’s Possum is featured in a SOUTH IMPROVE YOUR URBAN RIDING new temporary display in the foyer of the SKILLS OR PUT THEM TO THE TEST! Melbourne Museum that highlights the MELBOURNE plight of this critically endangered animal. MARKET Come early to learn some bike Almost half of the existing Leadbeater’s polo skills as a beginner and find out habitat was destroyed on Black Saturday. Tour the market to learn the how to make your own mallet. Watch Celebrate the tiny Leadbeater’s Possum and of in-season foods and how they’re produced. some of the well practised players battle learn about efforts to ensure its survival. it out on the hardcourt from 1 pm! Food samples, bag and apron provided. SAT 26 FEB Exhibition 10 AM – 12 PM SUN 20 FEB D LG KITCHEN, SOUTH MELBOURNE Until aily, 1 pm – 13 Apr MARKET, CECIL ST, SOUTH MELBOURNE Cn sunset 10 AM – 5 PM r Pate Mel COST $50 Ar rson an bou nold S d Mu rne EMAIL BOOKINGS C ts, Nth seum arlton, VI Free e [email protected] Free C vent OR 03 9209 6880 Event on Campbell o Pe t e r Ma s t Pho

SAT 26 FEB 10 AM – 12 PMRNE MELBOU SOUTH T MARKE ENT FULL EV S BELOW DETAIL o Dan H a r ley o Dan 40 t Pho The Ian Potter Centre: 12 FEB – 14 MAR NGV Australia presents NGV a f t ederati sq on STORMY uare Free Ex WEATHER hibition CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

A selection of works from the NGV Collection by photographers including Rosemary Laing, Harry Nankin, David Stephenson, Richard Woldendorp, Nici Cumpston, Anne Ferran and Jill Orr. The work of the contemporary Australian photographers highlighted in this exhibition comes from a profound engagement with the lived landscape around them. The quiet intensity of their work comes from a close and sustained relationship to particular environments. These artists may use their lived observation to reveal the layers of history in a landscape; to provoke ecological concerns; as the place for site specific performances; or to use the specific poetics of light to reveal the beauty of a place.

Stephanie Valentin earthbound (2009) from the earthbound series 2009, ed. 1/6 Purchased with funds donated by Philip Ross and Sophia Pavloski-Ross, 2009 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne © Stephanie Valentin

CLIMARTE: Arts for a Safe Climate in association SAT 26 FEB 2 pm with the National Gallery of Victoria presents t NGV a eration fed e ART & CLIMATE—A squar VENT CATALYST FOR CHANGE FREE E

Guy Abrahams, Director, Art + Environment, SAT 26 FEB argues that the arts can be a catalyst for 2 pm change to a sustainable world with a safe Theatre, Ground Level, climate. National Gallery of Victoria Australia at Fed square, Melbourne $18 Adult/$12 NGV Member $14 Concession/$12 Student Bookings Essential (03) 8662 1555 41 Macedon Ranges Sustainability Sustainable Gardening Group Presents Australia presents YOGA AT MACEDON WERRIBEE THE PARK

RANGES OPEN No previous yoga experience needed. BYO mat. No bookings required. SUSTAINABLE RANGE ZOO Weather permitting. SUN 13, 20 & 27 FEB LIVING WORKSHOPS 10 AM – 11 AM EDINBURGH GARDENS, FITZROY FESTIVAL Special gardening workshops at Werribee NORTH, VIA ALFRED CRES. MEET LIVE A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE Plains designed to encourage participants NEAR QUEEN VICTORIA PLINTH IN REGIONAL VICTORIA to become more sustainable in their back COST $15 ADULT $12 CONCESSION yard and local community. www.yogaatthepark.com.au Learn the latest about how to live a more SUN 13 FEB – Garden sustainable lifestyle. Organic fruit and Plants for Werribee Plains vegetable gardening, enhance wellbeing, SUN 20 FEB – Creating plus yummy organic food and fun activities Habitat Gardens for the kids! SUN 27 FEB – Gardening SUN 13, SAT 12 FEB 2011 in Low Rainfall areas 20 & 27 FEB 10 am – 12 pm – 11 am 10 am – 4 pm 10 am $12 Werribee Plains Zoo, K RD, $15 and Woodend Neighbourhood Hub ssion Gardens, 47 Forest St, Woodend. Werribee, VIC conce $8.00 family/$5.00 single, free to $10 Book online at members & people with a Vline www.sgaonline.cart.net.au/ train ticket store/learn/ www.woodendweb.org/mrsg/

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42 Oh Nina! Mini Music Melbourne Op Shop Tours presents Festival presents MELBOURNE CARROTMOB GREEN OP SHOP TOUR [VOTE BEATS ENJOY SHOPPING SUSTAINABLY BONANZA] AT GRUMPY’S GREEN FOR SECOND HAND CLOTHES HOW ORGANISED AND SAVE MONEY TOO CONSUMER PURCHASING This is what you get when you CAN CHANGE BUSINESS combine awesome independent music Presenting the most stylish and sustainable with environmental sustainability! of adventures through Melbourne’s Join the growing mob of people exercising Featuring eight Melbourne acts across second-hand wonderlands. If you love their consumer power by offering a carrot two stages, this is a free Sunday looking chic, unique homewares, shopping to businesses willing to reduce their afternoon shindig. sustainably and guarding your hip pocket environmental impact. Carrotmob will ask then this tour is for you. www.myspace.com/ Melbourne bars and restaurant businesses: ohninaparty Expert Tour guides will show you the best who will make the biggest change to their Op Shops, second-hand boutiques and business in order to improve the world? vintage stores around and help you style The winner gets a Carrotmob! your finds. Bookings essential. www.carrotmobmelbourne. www.melbourneopshoptours.com.au wordpress.com

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43 Scienceworks presents Design Victoria presents SUPER FOODS NITTY GRITTY TOWARDS DAVID WOLFE AUSTRALIAN TOUR It’s going to be a superfood-fueled explosion SUPER CITY ZERO of Raw Food mania as David Wolfe tours the Australia sharing cutting edge knowledge on EXHIBITION EMISSIONS food, health, longevity, success and everything in-between. This exhibition highlights recycling and DESIGN demonstrates the methods used to sort DESIGN FOR ZERO CARBON materials, featuring footage of the various REDUCTION IN BUSINESS THU 24 FEB stages of the recycling process. Designed Professor Alan Pears and Bill Jones target zero 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm specifically for three to eight year olds. carbon in business. They will cover energy RMIT Storey Hall, Building 16, efficiency, , whole systems 342 Swanston St, Melbourne $50 (tickets online or at door) 12 – 27 FEB thinking and greening the supply chain. Includes networking & light refreshments. www.davidwolfeaustraliantour. 10 am – 4 pm daily com/melbourne Scienceworks, 2 Booker St, Bill Jones Managing Director, Sustainable Spotswood, VIC Living Fabrics $8 adults, free for concessions & children, includes general Alan Pears Co-Director, Sustainable entry to Scienceworks Solutions and Adjunct Professor at RMIT Centre for Design THU 24 FEB 6.30 WED 16 FEB pm – 9.30 5.15 pm – 8 pm RMIT St pm orey H Australian Centre for the Melb all, 12 – 27 FEB daily ourne – 4 pm Moving Image (ACMI), Fed Square, $50 10 am rks, Melbourne Sciencewo d BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL BY FRI 11 FEB potswoo S www.designvic.com/events

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44 SELF-DRIVE GREENIE-HOUSE TOUR, MICHEAL REYNOLDS ZERO CARBON LIVING & NATURAL MANSFIELD PRACTICAL WORKSHOP DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Tour Mansfield to visit homes with a smart Hands-on and intimate time with the Presented by Michael Reynolds, “Garbage building approach. See houses designed ‘Earthship’ man. Help build a sculptural wall. Warrior”. New material directly relating to with passive solar and thermal mass. TUE 22 FEB | 1 PM – 4 PM local issues. Guaranteed to stimulate. SUN 20 FEB | 9 AM YARRA VALLEY ECOSS TUE 22 FEB | 7 PM – 9 PM MEET OUTSIDE MANSFIELD REGIONAL 711 OLD WARBURTON RD, WESBURN UPPER YARRA VALLEY PRODUCE STORE, MANSFIELD BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL COST $15 incl MORNING TEA 03 5967 2416 or 03 5967 2416 or BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL [email protected] [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] Sustainable Urban LIVING & TEACHING SUSTAINABILITY WESTVALE COMMUNITY and Regional Futures Activities and resources for educators GARDEN OPEN DAY RMIT University examines the contemporary to empower young adults with positive, Come and sample our fabulous fresh challenges facing cities in an era of climate practical messages to make a difference produce. Join a garden tour, have a BBQ change. Public Event (presentation and to our environment. lunch, get involved in a gardening workshop. panel discussion). WED 23 FEB | 11.30 AM–1 PM OR 4 PM–5.30 PM SUN 20 FEB | 10 AM – 2 PM 22nd FEB | 5.30 PM – 7 pm GOULD LEAGUE, GENOA ST, MOORABBIN WESTVALE COMMUNITY CENTRE, Storey Hall, 336 – 348 Swanston Street BOOKINGS BY 18 FEB 45 KINGS RD, ST ALBANS For more details visit EMAIL [email protected] www.whatson.rmit.edu.au or PHONE (03) 9555 5565 ROUND SHE GOES PRE-LOVED MARKET www.gould.edu.au 100 stalls of pre-loved women’s vintage and designer fashion. Locally designed REBUILDING GREEN AFTER DISASTERS jewellery, accessories and cool craft. Michael Reynolds, Garbage Warrior and SUN 20 FEB | 10 AM – 3 PM Mara Bun, CEO Green Cross Australia on KINGSTON CITY HALL, post-disaster environments and building 979 NEPEAN HIGHWAY, MOORABBIN sustainable homes. COST $2 ENTRY WED 23 FEB | 7 PM www.roundshegoes.com.au KINGLAKE VILLAGE HALL, KINGLAKE

SHOPPING WITH A CONSCIENCE Center for Design: Tools for A tour to learn how your shopping change: Embedding life cycle list products stack up for the planet. thinking in products and services Tour followed by a light meal. Thu 24 Feb | 5.30 – 7 pm TUE 22 FEB | 5.45 PM – 8.30 PM Storey Hall, 336 – 348 Swanston Street 3rd FLOOR MEETING ROOM 1 www.rmit.edu.au/cfd (JENNY FLORENCE ROOM), ROSS HOUSE, 247 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE FACILITATOR TRAINING FOR COST $5 SHOPPING WITH A CONSCIENCE BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Learn to deliver key content of the Shopping [email protected] OR 0417 114 492 with a Conscience presentation and key motivators that lead to behaviour change. THU 24 FEB | 5:45 PM – 8:30 PM 3rd FLOOR MEETING ROOM 1 (JENNY FLORENCE ROOM), ROSS HOUSE, 247 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE BOOKINGS [email protected] OR 0417 114 492 45 WORLD WELLNESS PROJECT GARDNER’S TALKS CLIMATE POSITIVE GREEN A full two day ‘plenary journey’ created Create a worm farm using recycled materials TEAM CONVENTION to nourish body, mind and spirit. A hands-on demonstration on how to build Share best-practice green team strategies THU 24 – SAT 26 FEB a worm farm and maintain it for improving environmental performance, MELBOURNE CONVENTION & FRI 25 FEB | 10.30 AM engaging management and staff and reducing EXHIBITION CENTRE HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, an organisation’s carbon footprint. www.worldwellnessproject.com 7 TEMPLESTOWE RD, BULLEEN FRI 25 FEB | 3.30 PM – 5 PM with drinks COST $5/$4 FOR HEIDE MEMBERS and & canapés from 5 – 6 PM EARTHSHIP BUILDING WORKSHOP CONCESSION VICSUPER THEATRETTE, LEVEL 6, Michael Reynolds on principles, permits, BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL 90 COLLINS ST, MELBOURNE planning, and practicalities building 03 9850 1500 COST $99 PER PERSON Earthships. For planners, decision makers, (PLUS BOOKING FEE) owner builders, architects and innovators. SUSTAINABILITY AT TRINITY COLLEGE BOOK & PAY VIA THU 24 FEB | 12 NOON – 3 PM A walking tour of sustainability initiatives at http://greenteamconvention. DAYLESFORD VENUE the College. Trinity College has some great eventbrite.com COST $65 – $75 retrofit highlights to be proud of. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FRI 25 FEB | 12.40 PM CRITICAL MASS BIKE RIDE 03 5309 2664 or MAIN COLLEGE OFFICE, TRINITY COLLEGE, Jump on your bike (or hire one) for this [email protected] ROYAL PARADE, PARKVILLE vibrant ride through the streets of Melbourne. www.trinitycollege.vic.edu.au Let’s roll! SUSTAINABILITY IN THE SUBURBS FRI 25 FEB | 5.30 PM A short film, stalls and presentations LIVING IN A PASSIVHAUS CNR SWANSTON & LATROBE STS, on working towards personal and Welcome to the world of the ‘passive house’. MELBOURNE community sustainability solutions. Hear speakers and view a film on this amazing Light refreshments provided. and sensitively designed dwelling. THU 24 FEB | 7 PM – 8 PM FRI 25 FEB | 3 PM CERES, VAN RAAY CENTRE, CNR STEWART LOBBY OF & ROBERTS STS, EAST BRUNSWICK 525 FLINDERS ST, www.thesharehood.org MELBOURNE COST $5 EARTHSHIP BUILDER PUBLIC TALK Working together for a How to build an Earthship with expert and compelling speaker Michael Reynolds. THU 24 FEB | 7 PM – 9 PM DAYLESFORD VENUE COST $10 – $15 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL 03 5309 2664 or [email protected]

46 PEDAL-POWERED OUTDOOR CINEMA SOURDOUGH BREAD-MAKING (ZERO CARBON!) WORKSHOP THANK YOU! Spend a summer’s evening watching a film Learn the everyday art of sourdough bread We are humbled by the on the banks of the Yarra. Join the peddlers making. From cultivating wild yeast to feeding to power the event! your starter, kneading and wood-fired baking. generosity and enthusiasm of FRI 25 FEB | GATES OPEN 5 PM for 6 PM SAT 26 FEB | 1.30 PM – 4.30 PM the Festival’s special guests MELBOURNE GIRL’S COLLEGE, VEG OUT COMMUNITY GARDEN, who have each leant their time, YARRA BLVD, RICHMOND CNR SHAKESPEARE GR & CHAUCER ST, COST $12 ADULTS $8 CONCESSION ST KILDA experience and ideas to support DISCOUNTS & PRIZES TO THE PEDDLERS! BOOKINGS VIA WEBSITE a rapid transition to a safe Pre-purchase tickets online www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/ climate future. www.mgc.vic.edu.au community_pulse_latest_information.htm We have been overwhelmed by the positive BYO a rug (no chairs), picnic & drinks. MT ELIZA FARMERS’ MARKET response from all those participating in the MANSFIELD FARMERS’ MARKET Come and get some local, farm fresh food! program and their readiness to support this Enjoy a Mansfield community gathering. This market bursts into life with families, community driven event. Learn more about the food you eat, its food and fun. Special thanks also go out to the exhibitors carbon footprint and how to reduce waste. SUN 27 FEB | 9 AM – 1 PM who make up the vibrant Green Market, SAT 26 FEB | 8.30 AM – 1 PM THE VILLAGE MT ELIZA, CNR MT ELIZA WAY showcasing unique and creative sustainable MANSFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL, & CANADIAN BAY RD, MT ELIZA solutions. And to all the individuals and HIGHETT ST ENTRANCE, MANSFIELD community based organisations who opened HOW TO GO CYCLE TOURING their doors to our Festival-goers, taking SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD Cycle touring presents an affordable, healthy initiative to host their own events and HOUSE OPEN DAY and fun holiday alternative. This session demonstrating the commitment needed for A day of practical sustainable living in your will prepare you for your next cycle tour! the transition to a sustainable future. community. Tours every half hour, children’s SUN 27 FEB | 2 PM – 4 PM activities and if you ride your bike…a free COMMUTER CYCLES, 14 PRENTICE ST, A big thank you to the many volunteers who bike check! BRUNSWICK also dedicate hours of work to make the SAT 26 FEB | 11 AM – 3 PM www.commutercycles.com.au festival possible. HOLDEN STREET NEIGHBOURHOOD This is a chance to thank you all publicly. HOUSE, 128 HOLDEN ST, FITZROY NORTH We hope the Festival has been a rewarding SURFIN’ SAFARI BALL experience to all those involved as we certainly PORT PHILLIP SUSTAINABILITY CRAWL THE FESTIVAL AFTER PARTY could not exist with out you. Find the best sustainable veggie gardens, food Yes, it’s back and better than ever, co-ops & rain gardens. Includes entertainment the Friends of The Earth’s annual Ball. Caroline Hughes and a free snack along the way. Bring your flippers and dancing shoes. Festival Program Manager 2011 SAT 26 FEB | 1 PM – 5 PM Featuring FESTIVAL 2012 OPTIONAL MEAL AFTERWARDS Johnnie Johnnie and The Johnnies Get ready for the 2012 Sustainable Living START AT DIG IN, MURPHEYS RESERVE, The Reefers Festival. Applications for events open PORT MELBOURNE OR BETTY DAY CENTRE, Beachy Boys May 30 2011. Email [email protected]. 65–67 ARGYLE ST, ST KILDA Girl Happy and the 2 Clams BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL The Great Gondos email Hula Hooping DESIGN By [email protected] DJ longboard and more or phone 03 9537 7763 or 0405 397 587 Sat 5 Mar | 7.30 PM www.transitiontownportphillip. Collingwood Town Hall. groupsite.com COST $50 FULL/$40 CONCession Bookings essential Call 94174382 47 VOLUNTARY TICKETS for Support the festival pro full detailsgram The festival is run by the Sustainable Living www. Foundation, a not-for-profit community based , visit slf.o organisation. Help sustain the festival. festiv rg.au/ al Voluntary tickets are now available online. transport Walk, Bike, Tram or catch Public Transport to the Festival. Ride to the Festival and park your bike at the Festival’s Bike Valet. general info What to bring EVENTS PLANNER Sponsored by Produced by Reusable water bottle Hat Sunscreen Reusable bag Getting involved Would you like to volunteer at the Festival? The Sustainable Printed using Sustainable Register at Living Festival aims environmentally Living Foundation www.slf.org.au/festival/volunteer to walk the talk with responsible printing Level 6 sustainable event processes on Monza 225 Bourke Street At the Festival practice. For more Recycled. Monza Melbourne Look out for the Festival’s WasteWise information visit is Certified Carbon Victoria, 3000 stations. Help us work towards a www.slf.org.au/ Neutral and contains Phone zero-waste event. 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Supporting partners Alto hotel Raw Wine and Beer Mountain Goat Future Spark MESSAGE FROM THE LORD FEDERAL MEMBER FESTIVAL MAYOR OF MELBOURNE FOR MELBOURNE DIRECTOR ROBERT DOYLE ADAM BANDT LUKE TAYLOR It is my pleasure to once again welcome It is my privilege to be a part of the 2011 It’s a delight to see each year the Festival’s the Sustainable Living Festival to Melbourne. Sustainable Living Festival. national profile thriving as it continues Over the next 16 days you will be treated to Melbourne is proud to host Australia’s largest to present some of Australia’s leaders in an innovative display of what is possible in sustainability focused event. The Festival truly sustainability as well as providing a platform the future. supports Melbourne’s drive to be a for emerging new talent. Leading solutions to the ecological and world leading . This year’s program reflects a demand from social challenges we face will be showcased, The current experience of flooding in hundreds of people and organisations from in addition to updates on contemporary Queensland and Victoria shows we must heed around Australia who want to celebrate technological advances. You will be both the warning of climate scientists about future sustainability loud and proud in their local empowered and inspired. extreme weather events for Australia. communities. In its 12th year, the festival’s message is as The time to cut pollution and step up the On behalf of the Festival, I’d like to thank all compelling as ever. We strive to live more transition to a zero carbon economy is now. the participating presenters, performers and sustainably everyday, but don’t always know exhibitors for their wonderful contribution to the right ways to do so. Through the festival’s The Festival provides a format for business, making the Festival’s program come to life. exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations community and government to be a part of Special thanks to all the independent event you will be exposed to new and exciting ideas the solutions and to shape the future we’re partners who have seen the opportunity to that promote greener lifestyles. creating together. use the Festival’s extended event dates to The festival includes a weekend event at I urge all Victorians to visit the Festival and highlight their wonderful work. Fed Square in Melbourne’s heart. It will see firsthand the climate solutions available. We’d also like to thank all of this year’s celebrate the very best examples of ecological sponsors, particularly the City of Melbourne and through a mix of who has shown leadership in supporting interactive workshops, talks, demonstrations, the events growth. We hope to gain further artwork, exhibits, film and live performances. support from other government levels I encourage you all to participate in this in the future to help educate and inspire celebration, to approach it with an open mind more Australian’s to live sustainably. and embrace the possibilities of sustainable Last but certainly not least, it’s always a great living in the 21st century. delight each year to work with the Festival’s production team. The dedication of these people each year is truly an inspiration. A huge thanks to the crew and to the hundreds of volunteers who have worked tirelessly to put on a great show. Melbourne. Your Eco City.

Whether you live, work, study, shop, or play in Melbourne, the City of Melbourne wants your help to become a zero net emissions city – an Eco City.

Visit our website to find out more about our eco programs, forums, partners, information, news and ideas to help you get involved.

Let’s do this together. www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ecocity