When: Tuesday 10th November

Time: 7.30pm

Where: Enfield Community Centre, 540 Regency Road, Enfield.

Entry fee: Gold coin donation to assist with hall hire.

Read the minutes from the October meeting here and the agenda for the November meeting here.

Program
Steve Poole: Eco Villages. Steve is a consultant and tutor in land use, landscape designe and permaculture. He’s also an eco-village consultant who has been involved with establishing villages in WA and SA since 1990, including landscaping the highly successful Aldinga Arts Eco Village and co-founding the Kooringa CoHousing Coop at Burra. Steve will describe his experiences in planning and designing eco villages, explain their aims and philosophy and advise where to find some good examples.

There’s also a segment called Who Can Help Me which is a chance to pose questions such as: Where can I buy it? How do I do it? Does anybody know about…?
Now we have more time available, if you have anything of interest to show and tell or an event to report during this segment, bring it along.Forthcoming meetings
December 8th: Dr Monica Oliphant, President of the International Solar Energy Society and a member of ANZSES will present her experiences of Solar Cities all over the world. These cities and locations are working towards 100% renewable power and Moinca will cover activities in the Canary Isles, Iceland, Flinders Island (Bass Strait), Helsinki and Dezhou (China). She’ll describe district heating and cooling system in Helsinki using heat pumps and an evacuated tube solar water heater factory in China. This will be a joint meeting with the ANZ Solar Energy Society and will be the ATA SA Branch annual meeting including election of officers for 2010.

Election of ATA Branch Officers for 2010
Nominations are invited for the positions of SA Branch Convenor and Treasurer for the session beginning on Feb 2010. Elections will held at our annual meeting on December 8th.Review of October’s meeting: Designers’ Forum
Over 105 people attended the designers’ forum – the largest for any ATA SA branch meeting. The night was a resounding success with the four panel members, Jack Metcalf, Andrew Tidswell, Allan Johanson and Ian Dolman – occasionally assisted by Emilis Prelgauskas – answering questions from the floor and giving short presentations about aspects of design, construction and energy star rating.

Other events and news
Wednesday 11th November, 7.30pm Sustainable Communities NPSP public meeting: ‘All about Soils’ – growing food at home: solving problems and ensuring fertile soil. Learn about soil at a public meeting to be addressed by Australia’s foremost specialist in soils for horticulture, Kevin Handreck, in the Payneham Community Centre, 374 Payneham Road. For information contact Ray Mylius, ph. 8363 2195 or email rmylius@chariot.net.au

Week 9 to 15 November Planet Ark is organising Australia-wide swap parties in which unwanted items can be exchanged for things you want using a token system. Individual events are being hosted by councils so check a location near you via http://recyclingweek.planetark.org/involvement/find-an-event.cfm
I’ve just posted a long article on Shmeco. The title is in the web address: http://www.shmeco.com/shmeco-story/465/Id-like-a-sustainable-home-but-where-do-I-start under the name AStrickland. It’s a response to many queries we receive from people who want to build a sustainable house or modify an existing home. They’re inspired by what they see at Sustainable House Day or hear about through the ATA and want some guidelines about how to go through th eprocess or learning and doing. Several recent queries have been about finding a suitable builder. You might like to give your experiences or make comments. If you know of anyone, especially a woman, who’s been through the process, could you encourage them to add to it? Either make a comment on the site after registering or by emailing me at alanmarg@cobweb.com.au The article needs to be re-formatted which is in progress but may still appear as one continuous block.Regards

Alan Strickland

ATA SA Branch Convenor

alanmarg@cobweb.com.au

ph 0419 813 965

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