[Peakoil] Sustainable housing and communities for Canberrans - 16 August, 7:30pm

[Keith Thomas]

The forum on sustainable housing and communities which I flagged a 
month ago will be held next Wednesday. All welcome.
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Sustainable housing and communities for Canberrans

Nature and Society Forum has organized this evening seminar to open up 
the range of choices, expose some of the pitfalls and help participants 
to bring focus to their own particular quest to move to more 
sustainable living.

Date: Wednesday 16 August,

Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm

Location: The ANU Emeritus Faculty. The meeting is in the Fellows Lane 
Cottage, building 3T on the ANU map available on its website. It is to 
the immediate north of the Law Faculty buildings and east of the South 
Oval. Adequate parking is available.

Five expert speakers will give an overview of the issues they see and a 
possible mix of solutions for people to match against their own 
individual cherished dream.

Planned community options:

Fiona McIlroy will give an overview of community living based on years 
of personal experience from the 1970s and will outline her Human 
Capital Housing proposal to accommodate ‘the ageing of Aquarius’.

Craig Downsborough will describe the Canberra Co-Housing’s proposal and 
the lessons they have learnt over the years of bringing their proposal 
to fruition.

Anni Mather from ACTPLA will introduce the One Planet Living proposal 
which has seen the establishment of large, low-impact communities at 
different sites around the world, and how One Planet Living might be 
implemented in Canberra.

Rural and sustainable living – preparing your mind, not just the site:

Petar Johnson will raise a number of questions the audience members are 
unlikely to have considered before. He’ll talk about how we can venture 
into a sustainable living project, still wearing our unsustainability 
blinkers. He will also question the use of the term sustainability and 
will describe the importance of embodied energy in choosing locations 
and building materials.

Solar orientation, living off grid in Canberra:

Derek Wrigley is author of Making Your Home Sustainable and will get 
right down to practicalities. Derek’s home is on display during the 
Sustainable Homes Days in September. He’ll also cover the traps we can 
fall into when our enthusiasm is taken advantage of by salesmen’s hype. 
Copies of Derek’s book will be on sale.

Urban retrofitting - A handout on urban retrofitting using Permaculture 
principles will be available.

An open forum will follow the presentations. If there is sufficient 
interest, Nature and Society Forum will convene future events to look 
more closely at particular issues arising out of this seminar.

A gold coin donation would be appreciated.
For more information visit the “what’s on” page on the Nature and 
Society Forum website www.natsoc.org.au or phone 6288 0760 (mornings).
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