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Change and adaptability
COVID-19 has certainly impacted our lives and the community on every level.
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Action and positive momentum
February might be a short month but this year it was a big month for sustainability action and landmarks
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What we each do matters
The start of this year challenged us all by bringing climate change and its devastating effects front-of-mind for all of us with the ongoing bushfires, as smoke enveloped Melbourne to remind us of what is happening hundreds of kilometres away
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Bringing win after win to Southbank!
It’s amazing what a group of passionate residents can achieve
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Waste and creative ways to reduce it
With recycling still being an issue in Melbourne and the amount of waste we produce being an even bigger issue
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Expanding sustainability beyond Southbank
September was, indeed, a month of sustainability!
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Highs and lows, yet always in action
It’s impressive how many highs and lows a month can pack
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Open House with environmental flair
July 27 marked the start of Boyd Community Hub’s first participation in Open House Melbourne and with that, our group’s first Open House as well!
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Low environmental footprint
On June 29 we hosted a sustainable family stone painting day with the generous help of our volunteers, local families, and Melbourne Men’s Shed
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A community that gets involved
It’s phenomenal and a bit touching seeing the community rally around a communal green space with such passion, interest, curiosity, and appetite for gardening.
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Positive changes in our neighbourhood
With the Southbank community vegie and herb garden finding its permanent home at Boyd’s front yard, our group has been busy caring for our new seedlings, expanding the garden, planning the upcoming orchard and community composting area and getting results through some important sustainability activism.
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Planting the new and maintaining the old
The long-awaited open Southbank Community Garden is finally here! Our group’s core members met with the council and its consultants in March to fine-tune details of the upcoming permanent, open community garden at Boyd.
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Changing the world’s fate takes all of us
From the new community garden opening this month, a result of some passionate Southbankers’ determination, to our individual daily choices, it takes all of us to bring about positive change.
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February: Sustainability Month
2019 started wonderfully by welcoming children and parents back with their home-grown sunflowers from last year’s contest, to see who grew the tallest one.
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Hope and Community
Seeing children finding joy in gardening is a joy doubled for grown-ups.
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Can you grow a sunflower as tall as Eureka Tower?
After a successful couple of talks and a screening of the documentary Anthropocene to help adults be more sustainable, it’s the kiddies’ turn now!
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Sustainability talks and Boyd Park
September and October (so far) have been great educational months for the Southbank Sustainability Group, while we are waiting for the new Boyd park community garden and orchard.
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Zero waste: personal and community
There is a lot of talk around sustainability and reducing waste
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Community’s journey into sustainability
It all started February last year, when as part of City of Melbourne’s Sustainability Month activities, a few Southbankers gathered to plant herbs in Boyd’s new planter boxes, or to watch a movie on food waste
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Once tallest, soon gone
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