The next General Meeting of BSFG is on Thursday the 26th of October at 7.30pm in the Meeting room, The Benalla Uniting Church, Carrier Street Benalla, opposite the Coles carpark.

Our guest speaker is Carole Hammond who is the Team Leader Sustainable Development at Strathbogie Shire.  Carole is engaged in building the smart growth of a 21st century economy and environment for the Shire of Strathbogie. This includes programs across native vegetation and biodiversity, regional stewardship projects, working with Landcare, as well as a range of sustainability, and climate change adaptation projects, such as the ‘Bogie Bulk Buy’, that will contribute to a strong, resilient Shire of the future.

Carole is also the creator of Coolth Sustainability, a multidisciplinary sustainability practice. The consultancy offers accredited thermal performance assessments under the National Housing Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS), and specialist input into environmentally sustainable residential design.

We look forward to hearing from Carole who will speak after the business of the meeting.  A light supper will be served at the end of the meeting.

Peter Maddock
Secretary
0418 135 330

The next meeting of Benalla Sustainable Future Group will be held on Thursday 24th August at 7:30pm in the meeting room at the Uniting Church, Carrier Street, Benalla.

The guest speaker will be Michael Staindl from Beyond Zero Emissions whose topic will be ‘Climate Change: the Bad the Good and You.’ Michael, who has degrees in Nuclear Physics, Computing and Biomedical Instrumentation, considers himself a 'tech-head', and when he had his OMG moment about climate change some years ago he initially thought the problem could be solved through exciting new technologies. However he quickly realised that while we had the technical technologies to solve the problem we didn't have the 'soft' technologies - the attitudes and thinking capability.

Michael's presentation will cover the reality of where we are with Climate Change, touch on some of the positive efforts to address it, then introduce concepts such as cognitive dissonance and wicked problems to try to understand why we are not facing this existential crisis.

​Michael now works full time on climate action and is a producer of the Beyond Zero Emissions community radio program. 

The next General Meeting of BSFG will be held on Thursday October 22nd at 7.30 pm at the Uniting Church, Carrier Street Benalla.
After the meeting we are screening a 40 minute documentary from the Lock the Gate Alliance called ‘Fractured Country: an Unconventional Invasion' about the risks to communities from invasive gas fields.
We also have a 4 1/2 minute video animation from the Climate Institute called ‘What the Paris climate negotiations mean’.
And the BSFG website subcommittee will be presenting this new BSFG website.
Anyone interested in the environment welcome to attend.