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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY FESTIVAL & SUSTAINABILITY FORUM
There are 2 strands to the WED event: celebration and information.
The celebration strand included music (The Blissmongers Collective, Loren), circus, children's workshop and walk, great food and environmentally sound products for sale, including discounted native trees and compost bins.
To inform people further and to encourage and facilitate pathways toward sustainable living, a Sustainability Forum was held, focusing on Sustainable Agriculture, Localisation of Food, Organic Growing, Wise Water Use, Sustainable Households, Composting, and Global Warming Action Now.
Global warming and resource depletion are the result of non-sustainable living. Living sustainably, immediately, is the pathway to survival.
Local, organic food production is healthier and
more sustainable. It does not import chemicals into our food chain, and masively
cuts food miles. Chemicals in our food chain have done irrefutable large scale
damage both to both humankind and to our planetary life support system (the
ecology). "Food miles" is a way of calculating how far food has travelled, and
the damage done getting there.
Agriculture and food supply in Australia is highly oil-dependent and prompt far-reaching change is required.
Organic local food production and the sustainability of our households were discussed in practical terms with the focus on the impending changes required as a result of climate change and peak oil.
Agriculture and food supply in Australia is highly oil-dependent and prompt far-reaching change is required.
Organic local food production and the sustainability of our households were discussed in practical terms with the focus on the impending changes required as a result of climate change and peak oil.