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Preston Market Celebrates 40th Birthday
Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:23:57
Preston Market, a shopping and social institution in the northern suburbs, is celebrating its 40th birthday this month. Happy Birthday Preston Market!! Preston City records that by 1976 the market had already grown to include 46 greengrocers, 15 delicatessens, four fish shops, four poultry shops, 19 butchers and a variety of smallgoods shops selling everything [...]
Building Resilient and Sustainable Places and Economies in a Transition Decade at HUB Melbourne
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:30:44
A free public event hosted by Hub Melbourne, in collaboration with Village Well on Saturday 30th of October between 3pm and 5pm. Join us at Melbourne’s newest social innovation hub for this rare opportunity to hear three respected global speakers present a new narrative and roadmap for creating resilient places and local economies. Neil McInroy, [...]
Melbourne Place Making Series
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:27:19
This week the Melbourne Place Making Series Conference will be taking place. Gilbert Rochecouste, from Village Well will speak at next week’s Melbourne Place Making Series conference. A huge line up of international and national place making experts has been secured to present and collaborate with. There is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about [...]
Peri-Urban land enhances Place Making!
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:58:06
Peri-urban areas form belts of non-urban land fringing urban centres. They are often neither fully urban or rural. They usually contain important natural resources, remnant biodiversity and significant landscapes. They often remain important for agriculture and recreation and attract diverse populations of people. These areas are under increasing threat from development. There are ways [...]
aMoment in Melbourne
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:42:41
“Sometimes it’s good for life to stop. Smell the forget-me-nots…Swing in a hammock…and all that. This is a gift. Take it. Share it. Life sometimes puts blinkers on you. Don’t let it. xx aMoment” aMoment is a beautiful project that celebrates the simple art of the everyday. They leave small gifts in different areas for [...]
Traffic Light Experiment
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:40:48
“Switch-off” is an experiment where up to 1700 vehicles and 300 pedestrians an hour used the junction were experiencing excessive delays. Now the junction takes over 2000 cars and 300 pedestrians an hour, with no conventional control at all. Congestion is a thing of the past. In the eight months since switch-off there have [...]
Melbourne’s Urban Reforestation Project at Shanghai World Expo
Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:05:24
Urban Reforestation representatives from Melbourne attended the Young Creators for a Better City, Better Life Design Conference at the World Expo in Shanghai. The theme of the World Expo 2010 is Better City, Better Life. The expo stimulates thought and action to promote ecologically responsible lifestyles and sustainable development as 55 per cent of the [...]
Urban Beekeeping – The Buzz at Village Well
Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:06:45
Village Well has just installed a new Bive Hive on our balcony of our Hardware Lane Office in Melbourne, Australia (see photos) This is the first Bee Hive in the city! Urban beekeeping is booming. It is already more than just a hobby for gardening enthusiasts or dedicated apiarists. Fortnum and Mason, a food emporium [...]
Live Local: Experiments in Local Living
Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:04:36
Ministry of positive Change just became a member of the Live Local Blog. It is a wonderful place to share different ways of living sustainably and locally. Live Local is a place to share stories about improving our communities. Use the website to document your neighbourhood experiments – your stories about your experiences and adventures [...]
VILLAGE MADE FROM 900 SHIPPING CONTAINERS
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:49:22
Haitian Canadian musician Luck Meril is leading the charge to help rebuild Haiti with houses made from repurposed shipping containers .Mervil is behind the Montreal organization Vilaj Vilaj, which wants to use 900 shipping containers to build an entirely new village west of Port-au-Prince fit for 5,000 people. The organisation aims to build sustainable and [...]
