Celebrate Sustainable Neighbourhoods

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon at the Landcare Resource Centre with our Sustainable Neighbours in November.
Gab shared her experience as part of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership program, we heard some of the key points from the Alliance's new Strategy and Implementation Plan and we discussed a number of ideas to progress our network.

Waste to Art

• How can we leverage the success of current and previous exhibitions?
• Something similar to sculptures by the sea / track / lake
• Engage directly with local schools to participate and clean marine debris
  
• Encourage schools to attend exhibition as an excursion
  
• Travelling exhibition at shopping centres, Launchpad sites, Art Gallery foyer, other places?

Marketing and promotions

• Pop up promotion like the purple bikes in Warners Bay that appeared from nowhere
  
• Pair events and projects with existing days and promotions (eg Earth Hour)
  

Coordinating events our events and projects

• Local swap (produce, plants, +?) events. Could advertise through Lake Mac Grows
• Clean up activities, eg Clean Up the Lake
• Citizen science projects eg monitoring microplastics, frog calls
• Catalogue / junk mail campaign is currently on Alliance's agenda. Could organise a letter-writing campaign to target distributors
• Repair Cafes - would be great to have a 2-page guide about how they are run to help other SN groups get started.
  
• More regular SN network get togethers to help with planning and coordination
  

Engaging more with young people

• Recognised difficulty in engaging with schools - teachers are busy!
• Empower young people to decide their own priorities vs presenting pre-determined program to them
• Rathmines group successfully completed survey with local young people to determine their priorities
  

Pursuing local projects

• Share advice and advocacy about how best to pursue local projects
  

Find out about other upcoming Sustainable Neighbourhood events and activities.