Melton Sustainable Living Group

This fortnight we have an evening meeting on Thursday, 2nd July, at the Melton Community Hall, meeting room 4, from 7-9pm.  The meeting will start dead on 7.00pm as we have a full programme, so please be a little early.  The hall will be open from 6.30pm onwards.  I have invited the team at ecoMaster to come along and present to us, and they have kindly accepted.  Listed below is what they intend on covering in two presentations; The most effective presentation would be about the Fed. Govt program which starts on 1st July.  Our group will be the first ever group in Australia to be presented with the Home Sustainability Assessments and the Green Loans program. We will cover: LYN: what is a home sustainability assessment and how does that work with a 'green loan' what is the purpose of the green loans scheme potential benefits the 'mechanics' of the scheme  eligibility for the loans e.g. must

If Barack Obama can have a veggie patch, why can't Kevin Rudd! It took a lot of campaigning by many concerned citizens who voiced their opinion at EatTheView.org. They made such an impact that Michelle Obama actually turned over the first sod in the garden herself. Many American families are following suit and have begun to plant ' Recession Gardens '. The First Lady even appeared on Oprah to tout the benefits of growing your own organic vegetables. Now that the President of the USA and family has an organic supply of yummy vegetables in the Whitehouse's yard, there should be no reason why our Kev can't rip up some of the lawn at the Lodge (the official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia), and put in a veggie patch just like the one that Peter Cundall made at the Royal Botanical Garden in Hobart. After all, the upkeep of the Lodge is paid for by Australian taxpayers dollars, so technically it belongs to all Australians. Just look at all that potential ve

This weekends meeting will be held on Saturday, 6th June from 1400-1600.  For prospective members or interested people, please drop me an email at the groups email address listed in the sidebar for the address details. This workshops focus is on how to better utilise rainwater, and how to effectively capture it from your roof.  David Suttie will be giving us the grand tour and explaining how he went about constructing his system. Should be a great afternoon, so come along and see a real working system in action.  Maybe it will even rain for us! Kind Regards, Gavin Webber, President.