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ECOTOURISM

Interested in your community being part of a global eco-tourism network?

A new initiative emerging from GEN Australia is an educational initiative. We want to make our GEN members’ assets available to people to visit, to share, to be part of community and to experience a different way of living.  We are, with GEN International and our network, going to present a wonderful and thrilling GEN eco-tourism experience from a once off trip to a world tour from which you can return and start living differently, in a community or not, but as a member of a different human destiny.

If you are an established community, a full GEN member or Prospective GEN member, then you are eligible to enter an EOI.  This is your chance to add your community based asset to the register.  Contact us and we will keep you updated on this local and global initiative.

MELBOURNE FORUM – POSITIVE LEGACY DEVELOPMENTS

Monday 21st May 2018

If we are to thrive into the future, humanity must address the social and ecological problems it has created. We need to find a way to live in the world so as to increase its capacity, not diminish it. The Melbourne Forum speakers all approach this idea from their own perspectives.

• Bill Reed is a long-term practitioner of regenerative development, a process that has resulted in projects that have increased the vitality, viability and resilience of the larger ecosystems in which they exist.
• Lucinda Hartley has been working with communities to empower them to connect to their places and have ownership and love for them, resulting in more viable communities.
• David Holmgren is a globally renowned author and educator in permaculture, which balances food production and ecological potential.  His recent book RetroSuburbia brings these ideas into the suburban household and neighbourhood context.

Date: Monday, May 21.
Time: 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Presentations will finish at approximately 7.30pm, followed by networking drinks and finger food until 8.30pm.
Venue: The Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza, 1 Macarthur St, East Melbourne

For more info and tickets go HERE

ENLIGHTENED DEVELOPMENT – INAUGURAL AUSTRALIAN SYMPOSIUM – THE PLACE MAKING REVOLUTION

Monday 21st May 2018 – Melbourne

Hear from a superb line up of speakers about a new development story for creating  places in a more sustainable and regenerative way.. Hear from leaders in property development, planning, architects and designers about new ideas and approaches to place based development, which can create resilient and  thriving communities, provide for sustainable livelihoods and the regeneration of our environment.

For more information, program and link to book a ticket for this event please go HERE