Welcome!Have you:

• Got a name tag and signed in?

• Put a dot on our map of where you live?

We will start with our workshop at 6:30. In the meantime, please:

• check out the displays and help yourself to food, tea and coffee

• introduce yourself to someone you don’t already know:

Tell them what you’ve pledged

What will help you achieve your pledge?

‘Big things happen

when a lot of people do small things

differently’(John Theopold)

Joy EdmondsMorisset Sustainable Neighbourhood Group and

Yunung Community Garden

The Sustainable Neighbourhood

Program, and our workshop

tonight

Sustainable Sustainable NeighbourhoodsNeighbourhoods

Woodrising, Booragul & Marmong

Point

Charlestown East

Swansea

Swansea Heads

Dora Creek

Cooranbong

Morisset

Cardiff NorthEdgeworth

Cameron Park

Redhead

Belmont

ValentineLT Creek

Wards:Wards: NorthNorth,, EastEast,, WestWestSouth Creek

The Morisset Sustainable Neighbourhood area

The basic requirements for a Sustainable Neighbourhood

• Bring together community members

• Participate in an inclusive process with the people who live, work and play here

• Identify how neighbours can tackle issues that are important to the health, safety and enjoyment of the area

• Develop a Neighbourhood Action Plan to work towards a sustainable neighbourhood

The basic requirements for a Sustainable Neighbourhood community building from ‘the inside out’

• Bring together community members

• Participate in an inclusive process with the people who live, work and play here

• Identify how neighbours can tackle issues that are important to the health, safety and enjoyment of the area

• Develop an Action Plan to work towards a sustainable neighbourhood

• Promotions• Invitations• Maintaining an email distribution list• Attending and minuting meetings• Supplying sample Terms of Reference• Conducting Capacity Building Training • Connecting the Group to Council’s vast

network• Supporting community events• Supporting action implementation

How Council supports Sustainable Neighbourhood Groups

Tonight’s aims:1. Get to know each other a bit better

2. Record the skills, experience, and

knowledge that individuals have in

our neighbourhood

3. Brainstorm and prioritise actions

that we’d like to take to make

Morisset more sustainable

• Skills audit activity

• Recap of what we’ve done so far

• Generating and prioritising sustainability

actions for Morisset

Workshop Overview

“When a growing circle of people work

together in a community partnership, they

have the power to address important

problems and achieve their goals.

Strong communities know they need

everyone to give gifts if the community is

to thrive. It is true: there is no one we

don’t need.”

- Mike Green

What skills, experience, knowledge, passions do you bring?

Heade.g. Intellectual skill:

Public speaking

Hearte.g. Something you

are passionate about:

Native Gardening

Handse.g. A skill you can do

with your hands:Cooking

What have we done so far?Initial meeting Nov 09

Workshop 1: Understanding Morisset

Collecting information and Public events

Information stalls:

Morisset Christmas Spectacular

The Morisset Show

Morisset Square

Morisset Community Fair

Events and activities:

• Clean Up Australia Day

• Energy Smart Workshop

• Worm farming workshop

Survey

tonight’s Action Planning Workshop

Morisset Sustainable Neighbourhood Action Plan

• Natural gardening workshop

• Farmers market discussion

• Yunung Community Garden opening

Working together for a sustainable Morisset!

What do we value about Morisset?• Balance of country living and city facilities

Peaceful and quiet surrounds, and country feeling / away from the big city

Accessibility to Morisset town centre, and Sydney, Newcastle,

Central Coast via the F3 and train line

• Facilities and services including shopping centres, library, community events, dance schools, and swimming pool

• Friends, family and community

• Natural features including bushland, wildlife, birdlife, open space, and proximity to the lake and mountains

• Recreational activities like cycling, horse riding, kayaking, fishing, walking, and motorbike riding

Water efficient appliances and fittings

InsulationNative gardening

Vegie gardening

Energy efficient

appliances

What are we good at?

Our assets…too many to list here!

have a look at the poster and add any we’ve missed

What issues do we care most about?

– Survey resultsUrban development and expansion

Litter

Transport – cycle and pedestrian friendly, congestion, public transport

Biodiversity – Bushland, Catchment management, Indian

Mynas,

Air pollution – Greenhouse gases, Motor vehicles, Power stations, Wood fires

What issues do we care most about?

– Survey results

Protecting and improving the natural

environmentMaking the

neighbourhood bike and pedestrian friendly

Minimising health risks from the environment

Reducing energy consumption

Reducing waste

Waste and rubbish reduction Reduce litter in the streetscape Enable and encourage re-use of resources and

household goods eg systems and behaviour change to repair instead of replace

Reduce the amount of household waste Encourage the reuse / utilisation of green waste

and organic waste

Protecting our natural environment

Ensure healthy biodiversity Reinvigorate a Morisset Landcare group Maintain and enhance Morisset’s bushland

atmosphere Reduce the number and impact of Indian Mynas

Utilising public spaces and facilities

Create and utilise public spaces with vibrancy, colour and opportunities to meet, eg cafes, open spaces, ‘village square’, parkland, community spaces.

Create a physical connection between different precincts of Morisset

Establish an environmental and community resource centre or hub to access information, demonstrations, education and resources

Pedestrian and cycle friendly neighbourhood—footpaths, off-road cycle paths, street lighting, curb and gutters, and pleasant, safe walking connections

Encouraging individual and household actions

Encourage households and businesses to use solar power (solar hot water and solar photovoltaic panels)

Encourage households, businesses and industry to use less energy

Encourage households, businesses and industry to utilise rainwater tanks

Encourage sustainable housing design

Encouraging a vibrant, connected, and active community

Increase active citizenship (community participation, education, volunteering and activism), and connect people to each other

What actions can we take to achieve these objectives?

Dot democracy

• Please use your dots to ‘vote’ for the actions you would most like to happen in Morisset

• Of these, what action(s) are you so passionate about that you are willing to contribute some of your time, energy, skills, or assistance towards? Write your name next to that action

Where to from here?

We encourage YOU to:

• Swap contacts with others with similar interests and make a time to meet / call in the next 3 weeks

• Start thinking / talking about / and making these actions happen

We will:

• Collate tonight’s results distribute to participants

• Put results together with other info to develop the Morisset Sustainable Neighbourhood action plan

• Assist to progress the actions we’ve come up with tonight / help organise get-togethers / give suggestions / provide admin support… etc – please ask

• Aim to formally launch / celebrate our action plan in spring

• Start small actions now as part of the plan

 Be the change you want to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi)

A few last things:

• Workshop evaluation form

• Lucky door prizes

• Some coming events

Some other events coming up:

• Free Fluorescent Light Globe and Battery Recycling - From the 1st July 2010 at Morisset Library. All light globes must be clean and unbroken. Only domestic household batteries accepted - no automotive batteries. More info at www.lakemac.nsw.gov.au or 4921 0333

• 4 – 11 July – NAIDOC Week

• Tuesday 13 July, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Morisset Sustainable Neighbourhood Group, Monthly Meeting. Morisset Multipurpose Centre

• Sunday 17 July, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Preserving Fruits and Vegetables Workshop, Presented by the Yunung Community Garden.

• Wednesday 28 July, 5:30 – 7:30 pm, Rainwater Tank Maintenance Workshop, Swansea Centre

• Sunday 1 August – National Tree Day