When: 25 February, 10am – 1pm (followed by free BBQ)
Where: Coburg Town Hall
Cost: Free!
Bookings required: book now.
Help spread the word: Invite your friends on facebook or download a poster.
What we'll do
The event will start with a 2 Minute Market, in which each group will have 2 minutes to outline what it does. Once we have picture of what’s already going on around Moreland, we will facilitate an open space forum for participants to initiate discussions around topics of their choosing around a broad theme of “what are the most pressing needs for a more sustainable Moreland, and how can we work together to make this happen?” Open space - based on the idea that the best conversations at a conference happen in the tea breaks - allows participants to network and self-organise into groups to discuss topics they are drawn towards. Participants will be encouraged to actively develop steps for working together towards our visions for the municipality.
MEFL staff will also be present at the forum to offer sustainability advice, electric bicycle test rides, and help with carbon footprint calculations during breaks.
Then keep the conversations going after the forum with a free BBQ lunch!
Greening Moreland Forum is satellite event of the Sustainable Living Festival. It aims to bring groups and individuals together to showcase what's happening across the municipality, explore potential for collaboration, identify gaps in the movement for a more sustainable and resilient Moreland, and create space for people to discuss ways to work together to fill those gaps. We hope that coordinating this forum will help catalyse ongoing relationships and collaboration.
Who's coming?
So far, we've had registrations from:
- Adopt a Tree in Moreland
- CERES
- Climate Action Moreland
- Coburg Community Gardening
- Doing It Ourselves
- Friends of Brunswick Station
- Friends of Coburg Lake and Surrounds
- Friends of Merri Creek
- Green Renters
- High School for Coburg
- Merri Community Health Services
- Merri Corner Community Garden
- Merri Creek Management Committee
- Moreland Bicycle Users Group
- Moreland City Council
- Moreland Energy Foundation
- Moreland Food Gardens Network
- Neighbourhood houses
- Peppertree Place
- Sharing Abundance
- Sustainable Fawkner
- The Sharehood
- Transition Coburg
- a whole lot of community leaders and residents
...and there are more and more registrations coming in everyday!
Discuss online
The conversation is already open in the ZCM Social forum. You can share your ideas or tell us what your group's up to right now. Then, after the forum we can continue the conversation online.
