Sustainable Visions for Gawler Community: A Film Night of Ideas

1. Visions / Ideas from Film Night – Feb 2013 • All comments stuck up on the carpet walls have been recorded here • We apologise for any mis-interpretations and incorrect spelling

2. Transport • Celebrate walking trails in Gawler • Bike lanes • Bike parks outside shopping centres • More kids riding bikes to school • More bike lanes and encouragement for people to ride • Organise a family ‘fun cycle’ around Gawler cycle track – • Raise public awareness – promote use of bikes • Bike lanes cut out and then re-start later down the road • Introduce smaller (21 seat) buses – not massive empty ones • Smaller green buses in the town • Car share schemes • Car pooling • Transport networks for schools – no school runs • Biodiesel • Electric cars

3. Waste • Repurposing e.g. sharing skills, sewing and lots of other things • Hard rubbish good for recycling • Check out the Humanure website • An op-shop trail • E-waste centre • Education eg composting, permaculture • Reed bed toilets/bathrooms • Invite quilters/textile groups and gain promotion/publicity and new members from this • Pity about Willaston Dump – dump shops are great • Get school to look at their waste

4. Local Economy • use Gawler station shop front to advertise Transition • Get L.E.T.S or simliar up and running in Gawler • Local currency • Raise awareness of the benefits of localising the Gawler economy • Local economy shopping guide • Create a ‘Hemp’ industry in Gawler from growing to processing and manufacturing clothing and other products. • Increase in cycling may increase local business opportunities • Local sales from local producers (cut out the middle man)

5. Arts and Culture • Live music venue for Gawler musicians • Chill out local live music wine bar in Gawler • Womad’ Gawler style • Using Nursing Homes and their skills to show how things used to be done: cooking sewing, gardening etc • Interview and record ‘Gawler’s Elders’ and their stories about Gawler • MORSBAGS (google it!) • Celebrate local talent • Musicians among the Transition members to form a band called the Transition Band (or similar) to perform at meetings and increase public awareness • Recycling of stuff • Create art out of junk • Teach our children old/lost crafts • Community ‘events’ such as the bag making on the video but with themes life ‘Basic Clothes Repairing’. Repurposing clothes etc • Revive Gawler's Humbug club

6. Food • Better markets for local produce and crafts • Produce a flyer listing what locally grown food is sold at which outlet • Share farming involving members of Transition Gawler and local farmers combined • Awarding local food sellers for using local products • Main street markets • Renew school based projects such as local gardens • Community garden on Goose Island as a suggestion • Community House are trying to develop community gardens for ‘food production’ • Fruit trees for street trees • More local produce and manufacturing less from overseas • School kitchen garden program • Working bees to convert backyards to practical gardens – veg, fruit and natives

7. Food • Community garden • Even a chance for local business to grow their own product • School garden project • Neighbours sharing food • Produce exchange • Local brewing group • Council tree planting – include fruit trees for community use • 50km food festival • Community garden with Australian native foods • Baking group “Knead and natter” • Food festival of local produce • Local seed banks • Serve local/organic brew at pubs in Gawler

8. Energy • wind turbines, solar, sun/mirror harnessing • Bulk buy solar hot water systems • Get local businesses to join the cause and give their support with energy saving methods • Incentives for sustainable energy, rain water tanks etc • Good solar dryers, community wood ovens to reduce power and introduce community • Solar oven workshops • Community solar ownership • Encourage sporting clubs to go solar • Transition Gawler to provide an energy efficiency support to households

9. Other • Become guest speakers at service clubs eg lions, kiwanis, Apex, rotary light, rotary. Hand out flyers. • Get Food Forest/Gawler Horticultural and Agricultural Society involved. Courses on ‘how to’. Talks/planning sessions • Built environment education program for kids • Learning groups to share gardening skills • School visits • Working with local schools to involve kids • Use an empty shop front to present a display (video loop) promoting your next meeting and what your group trying to achieve • Gold Star day for public transport commuters