Food Share in the Garden
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Join a Network watch party .. at home
Click on the image to watch trailer
***DEAR TRANSITIONERS*** this beautifully crafted movie, which was to be simultaneously released globally on THUR 26 MAR has been gazumped by that other rather momentous collective wake-up experience. Watch the trailer, and if you feel moved, rent or buy a digital copy and join the international watch party. Get a group together, in physically distanced space OR in virtual connected space. Just PLEASE join & watch. The Transition Network was a global supporter. Louis Schwartzberg (the Director) poured nearly a decade of his life and art to bring this message about a glorious, real, natural network. A connective tissue that binds us all together in a web of mystery and HOPE. Lets all watch it together.
Mundaring declares Climate Change Emergency
Press release
Mundaring Shire Council has voted to declare a climate emergency.
The vote at the December 10 Council meeting followed strong discussion among councillors, deputations from concerned residents and strong public support.
Mundaring in Transition, a group with more than 300 members, instigated this vote through a proposal put to, and supported unanimously by, the Shire’s Environmental Advisory Committee.
The Mundaring in Transition (MiT) Climate Change Interest Group would like to thank Mundaring Shire’s councillors for their sincere engagement with the issue of climate change and for their honest exchanges with each other in the Council and their recognition of the strong community support that led to this declaration.
For more see Climate Change Interest Group
1st Food Share for 2019
Drop by MJ Morgan Park in Glen Forrest on Sunday morning for an hour of social sharing. Bring any of your surplus garden stuff or something from your kitchen to share. Or just pop by to say Hello with other backyard gardeners and womble across to check out the adjacent Glen Forrest Community Garden. You’ll be most welcome.
Xmas Celebration at the Lake
To all our special supporters and friends, please come & join us for a super, laid back Christmas Celebration at Lake Leschenaultia. BYO drinks, a plate of food to share and something to sit on. Insect repellant highly advisable as well. Follow the MiT signs from the entrance on the day.
Seed Library is LIVE!!
All the hard work and contributions by our community of local seed savers, the Library staff and the Seed Group volunteers has paid off, the Seed Library is open for borrowing. Our embryonic collection is small, so borrowing must initially be limited, but all you’ll need is your usual Library membership. Then you can borrow, grow, save and share. Of course, you also get to eat the produce or enjoy the flowers. Then, we hope you’ll be inspired to save some seed to return. The whole purpose is to steadily increase the collection of open pollinated, locally adapted seeds to share among our community. Stay tuned for Seed Saving Info talks.
If you’d like to join the seed saving conversation on Facebook CLICK HERE
Exciting possibilities for schools
If your school can see the potential benefits of linking plant/food production from soil, to seed, to plate, then on to a perennial social purpose, contact the Seed Group to discuss how we can work together.
Up for the Plastic Free July Challenge?
The Plastic Free July website has some fantastic resources to help you make choices about a range of actions & how they stack up environmentally. http://www.plasticfreejuly.org/
So much to see & hear … so little time!!
We’re in the news!
Woohooooo!! Our little DIVESTMENT success – nearly 2yrs liaising to get the wording changed in the Shire’s Investment policy with the help of the awesome team at 350.org But totally worth it. The photographer didn’t want us to include the signs, but we insisted. After all, lots of people don’t understand what “divestment” means. So we spelled it out. And the really good news: we have an amazing non-fossil fuel- funding bank right here in Mundaring. Mundaring Community Bank Branch has a board of VOLUNTEER Directors, has an ACTUAL OFFICE in town, provides local employment and gives a very significant percentage of its profits back to the community. How many other banks can claim that? Think about it … putting YOUR MONEY where it ALIGNS with YOUR VALUES.
CLICK ON THE PHOTO to link to Sarah Brookes’ great article
