Tag: peak oil

Eastern Transport Coalition – State Candidates Forum at Maroondah

Oct 13, 2010

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Environment, Social Sustainability, Speeches and Presentations, Sustainable Transport, Urban Sustainability

The Eastern Transport Coalition is a council initiated advocacy group, covering Melbourne’s seven outer eastern Councils; Greater Dandenong, Knox, Manningham, Maroondah, Monash Whitehorse and the Shire of Yarra Ranges. As part of its advocacy campaign, the Eastern Transport Coalition is holding a series of candidate forums, throughout each of the member councils. The evening was…
Transition Towns Maroondah Transport Group

Apr 12, 2010

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alex

in Community Engagement, Environment, Urban Sustainability

Transition Towns is a community based movement that aims to empower communities to respond to the challenges of peak oil and climate change. Transition Towns aims to promote thinking globally and acting locally, through localised groups. Maroondah has a transition towns organisation that has established several working groups exploring strategies in developing a future that…
Eastern Transport Coalition – Final Meeting as Maroondah’s delegate

Dec 17, 2009

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Environment, Sustainable Transport, Urban Sustainability

The Eastern Transport Coalition (ETC) is a Council based advocacy group seeking to improve public transport within the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Member councils include the City of Maroondah, the City of Greater Dandenong, City of Knox, City of Manningham, City of Monash, City of Whitehorse and the Shire of Yarra Ranges. Each year…
Maroondah Transition Towns Public Meeting

Nov 10, 2009

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alex

in Community Engagement, Environment, Social Sustainability, Urban Sustainability

Transition Towns is a community-based movement that aims to strengthen local communities and encourage them to meet the challenges faced by climate change and peak oil. While Transition Towns is an international concept, each local community develops its own resources as part of the program. This evening the newly formed Maroondah Transition Towns group convened…
Maroondah Leader: Transport Coalition aims for changes

Feb 17, 2009

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Maroondah City Council, Sustainable Transport, Urban Sustainability

The State Government is undertaking review of bus services across Metropolitan Melbourne with the latest series exploring routes within Maroondah, Knox and the Yarra Ranges. The Maroondah Leader has reported on the upcoming reviews, including the public workshop which will be held this Thursday. Coalition Deputy Chair and Maroondah councillor Alex Makin called for a…
Maroondah Journal: Petrol, housing costs 'hitting eastern suburbs'

Aug 19, 2008

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alex

in Environment, Maroondah City Council, Sustainable Transport, Urban Sustainability

Griffith University academics, Dr Jago Dodson and Dr Neil Sipe recently released Unsettling Suburbia: The new landscape of oil and mortgage vulnerability in Australian cities. The report further explores the VAMPIRE index (Vulnerability Assessment for Mortgage, Petroleum and Inflation Risks and Expenses) whereby the costs borne by rising petrol prices and mortgages are compared across…
Active Communities = Active Advocacy : Communities for Public Transport featured at the Sustainable Living Festival

Jan 23, 2008

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Environment, Social Sustainability, Sustainable Transport, Urban Sustainability

Communities for Public Transport is unique in that it places communities first and foremost in its advocacy efforts. Communities for Public Transport, the public transport advocacy group established to represent and empower local communities, will be featured at Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival on Sunday the 17th of February at 10am. The Sustainable Living Festival, an…
Delegates' report: Peak Oil and Climate Change

Jul 16, 2007

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alex

in Environment, Maroondah City Council, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

On the 27th of June I attended the Peak Oil, Petrol Prices and Climate Change Conference convened by the Victorian Council of Social Services, Environment Victoria and in partnership with the Victorian Government. Peak Oil is the situation that occurs when the supply of oil is unable to meet demand. It was first hypothesised by…
Croydon Conservation Society Film Night: An Inconvenient Truth and the End of Suburbia

Jun 28, 2007

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alex

in Environment, Maroondah City Council, Urban Sustainability

Urban sustainability and the environment have continued to remain at the forefront of the Maroondah community with the Croydon Conservation Society holding a film night, showcasing Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and the End of Suburbia. An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary surrounding former US Vice-President Al Gore’s presentation on climate change. Through the presentation…
Peak Oil, Petrol Prices and Climate Change Conference

Jun 27, 2007

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alex

in Environment, Maroondah City Council, MAV and ALGA, Public Transport Users Association (PTUA), Sustainable Transport, Urban Sustainability

Peak Oil and the impacts of climate change have risen in prominence this week with both the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and a coalition of community groups led by the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) organising conferences on these issues. I attended the Peak Oil, Petrol Prices and Climate Change conference which was organised…