Earthsharing Workshop

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Workshop Info Pack (PDF 46KB)

What Is The Earthsharing Challenge?

* An opportunity for an interactive workshop on land and natural resource use in your school
* Ultimately – a challenge to students to be selected to attend a free environmental camp, with a hands on role in the production of a video on sustainability

Outline Of The Challenge

Starting with Earthsharing Workshops in Your School

Two members of the Earthsharing team will come out to your school and take your students (Years 8 – 11) through a 45 minute interactive environmental learning experience. The workshop is based around Earthsharing Australia’s philosophy of land and natural resources as part of the Global Commons. More specifically we will explore current environmental issues, eco footprints and opportunities for further student involvement.

The Challenge

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Earthsharing Challenge Camp Event Details

Participate, Educate, Create!

The way society is, we rarely step outside our comfort zones. The Challenge we are offering you is to put yourself in a different environment and see how you adapt. Some could say the Earthsharing Challenge will be a “Reality Tour” where students examine their “Ecological Footprint” in everything they do.

Participate:

We will be staying at Opoeia in Angahook State Forest over the weekend of Friday October 6-8th. This is just near the seaside town of Anglesea where local leaders have adopted the Ecological Footprint as an environmental objective. “Reduce our impact on the environment for the benefit of all” they say.

I Want to Live Here Report released

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Land Supply Strangled by Speculators Earthsharing Australia has released the first ‘I Want to Live Here’ Report, demonstrating the extent to which speculative vacancies are the hidden issue in the housing affordability debate. The ‘I Want to Live Here’ report found that 1058 people could live on vacant sites within the Bluestone Ward (City of Maribyrnong). This Google Earth photo … Read More

Why the “Sixties” did a 180 Degree Turn (or How the Aquarian Age Could Do a U-turn, from a Georgist Perspective)

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By Karl Williams

– ” Whatever happened to the revolution? ”
– ” We all got stoned and drifted away”

Well, there might actually be quite a bit of truth in these Skyhooks lyrics – dope was firstly the gift and later the curse of all those starry-eyed ideals that we held back in the late ’60s through the ’70s.

These ideals were tied in with a movement which appeared to be irresistibly sweeping the whole world. It was seen as the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, or simply “The Sixties”. Its leaders were folk and protest singers, peace activists, political revolutionaries and Indian gurus. Its followers were flower children, dropouts, a whole generation of university students, hippies of various shades of grime, and even some ordinary Mums and Dads. If it had any “headquarters” to begin with, it was mythically located on the corner of Haight & Ashbury Streets in San Francisco.