Friday, 06 February 2009 02:46
SUSTAINABLE SHARING
Sustainable Cities Round Table
A networking and information event presented by SustainableMelbourne.com, a project of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab.
The Sustainable Cities Round Tables are regular events that feature a variety of speakers who provide three-minute glimpses of what they are doing to create a more sustainable Melbourne. This month the theme is Sustainable Sharing and features guest speakers from Herdshare, Growlocal.com, Green Hanger and My Sister’s Wardrobe who will take the stage at the ECO-CITY Exhibition.
It may seem strange that we’ve highlighted sharing as a sustainability issue. Yet as the West has become more industrialised we’ve also grown more individualised producing more products per person. At this Sustainable Cities Round Table we explore how we can learn to share again. Topics include shared spaces, such as composts and co-houses; shared products and materials, such as the renewed retro world of no longer daggy hand-me-downs, and shared services, such as permablitzes and group purchasing power.
For further information visit www.SustainableMelbourne.com