enews Nov 3rd 2006
Posted on 3 November 2006 by e-news
MASG News
* Office drop in hours To assist the smooth running of our office we are open for drop in visits from 3pm to 5pm Monday to Friday. We are happy to make appointments outside of these hours to see you just ring us on 5470 6978
* Website gets a facelift MASG website is updated to be a more interactive public face. Thanks to Anthony Denahy, Bronwen Machin and the other volunteers who have made it so.
* Castlemaine North Primary School After the meeting with MASG on Monday the 30th will decide at their next school council meeting if they will go carbon neutral.
* ABC Local Radio Bendigo MASG had a 20 minute interview with David Lennon and Kirsty Cogdon of the North Central CMA on Friday 3rd discussing the upcoming movie screening.
* Movie Screening heats up MASG has 6 partner organisations for the screening and an invite list that is topping 500 people. Many thanks to the busy volunteers who have beavered away compiling the invitation list, this promises to be a big event for our organisation.
* Open Space Technology Training. Many thanks to Janet Phillips who undertook training on behalf of MASG in this technique which enables communities to elaborate responses to complex, sustainability problems. MASG will be using this technique in an event next year to assist us plan for our future projects. Details to follow.
* Castlemaine State Festival Working Groups convened on Thurs 2nd to discuss progress and share their information. If you would like to be involved in one of the working groups to help make the SF carbon neutral contact Carolyn 5470 6325. After the meeting with MASG on Monday the 30th will decide at their next school council meeting if they will go carbon neutral.* MASG had a 20 minute interview with David Lennon and Kirsty Cogdon of the North Central CMA on Friday 3rd discussing the upcoming movie screening.* MASG has 6 partner organisations for the screening and an invite list that is topping 500 people. Many thanks to the busy volunteers who have beavered away compiling the invitation list, this promises to be a big event for our organisation.* Many thanks to Janet Phillips who undertook training on behalf of MASG in this technique which enables communities to elaborate responses to complex, sustainability problems. MASG will be using this technique in an event next year to assist us plan for our future projects. Details to follow.* Working Groups convened on Thurs 2nd to discuss progress and share their information. If you would like to be involved in one of the working groups to help make the SF carbon neutral contact Carolyn 5470 6325
Upcoming MASG Events
1. Quick and Clean Fridays the next open afternoon is today, Friday 3rd from 5.30 to 6.30pm @ MASG office. Give your confessions to the high priest of sustainability for absolution….
2. Question the Candidates on Climate Change: Wendy French has invited State Election candidates to answer questions on Climate Change to be chaired by Terry White. Nov 13th Maldon Community Centre Supper Room, 7.30pm. Let’s go along and here their answers. For details Tel Wendy 54706978
3. Walk Against Warming Maldon Sat 4th. 2 walks are being held @ 9.30 am leaving from the Servo and 2pm leaving from the Maldon Primary School.
4. Farmers market discussion Carolyn will be discussing MASG projects at the Farmers Market, Sunday 5th
MASG Requests
1. “An Inconvenient Truth”. Thanks to those twelve people who have put up their hands to assist us put on the special screening on Nov 23rd. We still need volunteers to staff a MASG table during other screenings. Ring Dean @ office 5470 6978 or email dc@masg.org.au
2. One paragraph success stories We want some short stories of how you were inspired to do something and what you did to reduce your ecological footprint for our sustainability stories on our funky website. See Just do it! for an example.
3. MASG Media file Are you a regular reader of the local papers and the AGE? We need someone to cut out and collect for us stories about MASG and Climate Change for our files. Ring Dean on 5470 6325
4. Question the Candidates on Climate Change Wendy would like help with note takers and people to help provide some light supper for Nov 13th. Tel Wendy on 5470 6978
5. Maldon Folk Festival. MASG has been offered a small space on a table @ Maldon Primary School Market during the MFF on Saturday Nov 4th. If you can help staff the table contact Dean 54 70 69789 or Wendy 5470 6978
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Please note these events/ websites/ literature are not MASG endorsed and are for member’s information only.
* Coliban Water Education sessions Gardens in dry times Thur 9th Nov @ Buda House, Castlemaine. 2 sessions 1-3pm and 6-8pm. Bendigo Mon 13th Nov 1pm -3pm and 6pm -8pm Tues 14th Nov 9am-11am Bookings essential tel: 1300 304 80
* Ma Lets Trading Days, 3rd Friday of every month: Friday 17th Nov and Friday 15th Dec, Wesley Hall, 5pm -7pm
* International Day of Action on Climate Change: Walk v Warming 4th Nov a nationwide day of action in capital cities, Melbourne – 1pm Town Hall (walk to Birrarung Marr) see: http://www.walkagainstwarming.org/index.html”
* The wicked waste of war machines One of the craziest incongruities in a world facing the peak and decline of cheap oil is the profligate waste of this non-renewable resource by military machines. Here is a snippet from Peter Pae in the LA Times of 15 September:“If you think your fuel bill has skyrocketed, pity the people who operate the eight-engine B-52 bomber.The lumbering aircraft, build in the 1950s when jet fuel cost a quarter a gallon, guzzles 47,000 gallons in a single mission. Today that’s $100,000 a fill-up. Tally in the gas-hogs in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere – fighter jets, bombers and cargo planes – and you can understand why the American taxpayer got a $5-billion fuel bill last year for the Air Force alone.”One day in the not-too-distant future, we are going to be very short of transport fuels. Wasting oil and other non-renewable resources in operations directed at laying waste the infrastructure and support systems of other countries is, in the grand scheme of things, total stupidity! From the CSIRO sustainability network see update 62 E
“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy…I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that…”
Thomas Edison to Henry Ford in 1931
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