Monday's meeting

This morning I asked our Manager, Gina Dougall, to tell you all about a very important meeting that is taking place on Monday. So here is what she said without needing to rehearse or prepare, she is such a media animal!



Our next post will analyse the Interim Report released by the Garnaut Climate Change Review, so come back soon to check it out!

Information Session at Sustainability Victoria

Last Tuesday my manager Gina and I attended an information session organised by Sustainability Victoria (www.sustainability.vic.gov.au) and DSE (www.dse.vic.gov.au) for all the successful EcoLiving Centres.

Before the day Gina and I were very excited even and bit anxious about making a good impression, so when we got to the workshop we had already spent quite a lot of time developing our workplan and milestones.

In the end none of that work was really necessary as the workshop turned out to be more about getting to know all the stakeholders involved in the Grants initiative, including all the other successful projects. The presentation about all the different projects was a great display of diversity of organisations and approaches in environmental practice, and it was great to see that other neighbourhood houses (North East NH Network) have been successful with their submission as well.

We also learned a great deal about the great programs carried out by Sustainability Victoria and started to discuss ways in which our centres can convey information about those programs.

One of the best outcomes of the day was the decision to create a network of EcoLiving Centres in Victoria, which will facilitate the flow of communication and the collaboration between the different projects.

We also had a bit of time to visit the Sustainability Victoria building, which has a six star environmental rating.

My feeling is that our project is slowly gaining momentum and that after the workshop we know all the players in the game, so it is time to start working really hard!