In preparation for the People’s Climate March next month, YCAN is having a banner and placard workshop/ working bee this Saturday. Bring your old coreflutes for refurbishment. Paint etc provided.
Lunch provided. Ring Carole on 0418 546 168 for venue.
The position of Urban Agriculture Facilitator has been earmarked for axing again in the 2015-16 City of Yarra Draft Budget. Come and help us overturn this decision TONIGHT at the Fitzroy Town Hall, 6.30.
Members of the public will have the opportunity to speak against what some councillors are calling “middle-class welfare”.
To support the Livewell “Decarb Your Life” program, our next meeting will be a special event hosted by award-winning sustainable architect Ande Bunbury to discuss reducing our carbon footprint in practical ways. We’re asking all those interested to bring along their household bills to the meeting. 7pm, Wednesday 13 May Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (20 Princes St, Carlton) Please RSVP to Kerry – echberg@netspace.net.au If you can’t join us on the night, you can still sign up to be involved in one of the 10 decarb groups in Yarra.
The 2014-15 City of Yarra Budget was passed last night. 80 submissions were received from residents, but the only item that was changed in the budget, was the reinstatement of funding for the Urban Agriculture Facilitator. This is great news. The submissions written by YCAN and other community members committed to urban ag did the trick!
Congratulations to Seaspray which on Sunday 28h July joined a growing league of Australian communities and declared itself to be Coal Seam Gas Free.
Seaspray is a beautiful little community in Gippsland regional Victoria. A few of us from YCAN made a day trip of it and delighted in the pleasure of sharing another community’s victory against the coal industry’s plans to destroy our agricultural lands.
The Victorian ALP Opposition has announced a clear position against the fundamentally flawed East West Tollway debacle.
YCAN delegates met with acting Shadow Transport Minister, Richard Wynne on July 18.
This was part of the combined actions that the community has taken to promote public transport and prevent a flawed tollway project. YCAN is proud to be part of a great coalition that is getting traction on the issue of tollways vs public transport. YCAN has been on the ground and working with the Trains Not Toll Roads campaign from the beginning.
We call on the Victorian Government to fund much needed public transport and to abandon this unjustified step back to the 1950s and deliver the trains the public wants.