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Clean Up Australia Day – 2013

Posted on February 21, 2013 | Leave a comment

Building on the success of previous years, Transition Town Guildford and the Guildford Association will be hosting a Clean Up Australia day site around the Guildford Primary school (125 Helena street).

Come join us to clean up and hang around for morning tea. Children welcome, but must be supervised by parents.

When: Sunday 3rd March

Time: 8:30-10:30 am

Bring: Bring gloves, water, hat, enclosed shoes and a friend!

Sign up on the CUAD website or see you on the day.

E-Waste and Recyclable Goods Days

The East Metropolitan Regional Council are running computer and television recycling days across the member councils (Bayswater, Belmont, Bassendean Kalamunda, Mundaring, Swan).

Bring your e-waste along this weekend (23 and 24 February) to one of the Tech Collect locations to have it recycled for free. All computer equipment and accessories, cables, printers, scanners and TVs accepted.

City of Swan Location – Jack Williamson Oval, Eveline Road, Middle Swan.
When: 9 am to 4 pm all weekend. More info here, all locations here.

And on the 9th of March the City of Swan are having another Recyclable goods drop off day. See the Upcoming Events page for details.

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Welcome our sister group – Transition Bay St. Margarets, Canada

Posted on February 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

Each Transition Initiative is a local group dealing with resilience issues in their area, but the Transition Movement as a whole is world-wide in scope. As an illustration of this wide scope,  Transition Town Guildford has informally twinned with a sister-transition group: Transition Bay St. Margarets, located near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Our two transition initiatives are very nearly on the opposite sides of the earth from each other!

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The Family of one of our steering group are part of the steering group of Transition Bay St. Margarets and joined us for our Christmas celebration at the end of the year. Check out the inspiring projects below, and take a look at what our sister group is doing on the other side of the earth (http://www.transitionbay.ca/). It helps us all to appreciate that while the details may be different, the overall goals are remarkably similar. Visit your sister often and say hello!

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Posted on January 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

Would you like to see Guildford, Bassendean and Midland go bottled water free?

Jaap Timmer's avatarCulture Matters

by Jennifer Anayo (Graduate of the Master of Applied Anthropology program at Macquarie University) 
 

Plastic is ‘highly visible’ in food packaging, plastic carry bags at the check-out and the many applications of plastic in the food and beverage service. Due to these consumer experiences, plastic is often linked with notions of disposability, convenience, and low financial cost. Our interactions with them are for short periods of time, and often taken for granted. Similarly, since plastic has found its place in every-day consumer products, and the banal and mundane functions of daily life, plastic often fades into the background, ‘invisible’ until attention is brought to it.

Commonly, we understand the things we buy, use or get given as ‘objects’. Dichter points out that the objects we own reveal a great deal about ourselves, and that studying objects is a useful way to find out about people and gain insight into…

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