Subtropical Cities 2008 Conference - Speakers - by Iceberg Events: "Stephen Zannakis
Principal Designer/Construction Coordinator/Trainer
SPIRAL Community Hub
SPIRAL is a community development cooperative with a diverse agenda and as the principal designer, construction coordinator and trainer I work on sustainable design projects, coordinating council and construction documentation, estimating construction costs, training disengaged long term unemployed youth in construction skills as well as sustainable design principles.
Projects to date have been two rebuilding the SPIRAL office in a sustainable manner in West End; a public shaded picnic area in one of the community gardens SPIRAL manages; retaining walls and seating area for children at West End State Primary School; the design and fitout of a commercial kitchen and restaurant for a group of Eritrean refugee Women in Moorooka called Mu'ooz; redesigning the remainder of the SPIRAL premises to achieve more office space, a dedicated meeting room, a community cafe, space for our fair trade store and a biological wastewater recycling system including a reed bed and roof garden."
Saturday, July 31, 2010
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Gabba Renewal Precinct Future Looks Good -Have your say
The Woolloongabba Draft Structure Plan is available for public comment from 19 to 30 July and can be viewed on the ULDA website at http://www.ulda.qld.gov.au/
A community information session is being held Saturday 24 July 10am - 2pm at The German Club, 416 Vulture Street, Woolloongabba. Community members will be able to talk to planners one-on-one about what is intended for the UDA and provide feedback.
Responses from the community regarding the Draft Structure Plan will be considered during the preparation of the Woolloongabba UDA Proposed Development Scheme.
See more at Gabba Renewal Precinct Future Looks Good
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Connecting SEQ 2031: An Integrated Regional Transport Plan for South East Queensland
Connecting SEQ 2031: An Integrated Regional Transport Plan for South East Queensland
The final Connecting SEQ 2031 plan will deliver:
•a master plan to address the critical issue of transport for the region’s ongoing success
•the department's response to the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 framework for growth within the region
•a central document that consolidates the transport related actions from many of the Queensland Government’s studies and policies
•a basis for prioritising funding to support the numerous transport and land use plans that have been developed within government.
Consultation
Given the significance of this project, the project team will be working closely with key stakeholders across all levels of government to build on collective knowledge to develop a collaborative plan.
Details of any public consultation activities will be provided on this web page http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/Home/Projects_and_initiatives/Plans/Integrated_transport_plans/Connecting_seq_2031/ closer to the release of the draft plan.
When will the plan be available?
Connecting SEQ 2031 is expected to be released in mid 2010.
Further information Please contact: Principal Manager (Transport Strategy)
Integrated Transport Planning
Transport and Main Roads
GPO Box 213 Brisbane 4001
Email: planning.projects@tmr.qld.gov.au
The final Connecting SEQ 2031 plan will deliver:
•a master plan to address the critical issue of transport for the region’s ongoing success
•the department's response to the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 framework for growth within the region
•a central document that consolidates the transport related actions from many of the Queensland Government’s studies and policies
•a basis for prioritising funding to support the numerous transport and land use plans that have been developed within government.
Consultation
Given the significance of this project, the project team will be working closely with key stakeholders across all levels of government to build on collective knowledge to develop a collaborative plan.
Details of any public consultation activities will be provided on this web page http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/Home/Projects_and_initiatives/Plans/Integrated_transport_plans/Connecting_seq_2031/ closer to the release of the draft plan.
When will the plan be available?
Connecting SEQ 2031 is expected to be released in mid 2010.
Further information Please contact: Principal Manager (Transport Strategy)
Integrated Transport Planning
Transport and Main Roads
GPO Box 213 Brisbane 4001
Email: planning.projects@tmr.qld.gov.au
Friday, July 16, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Yeerongpilly transit oriented development - Department of Infrastructure and Planning
Have your say
Transit Oriented Development and Design
Department of Infrastructure and Planning
Reply paid 15009
CITY EAST QLD 4002
Email: yeerongpillytod@dip.qld.gov.au
Yeerongpilly transit oriented development - Department of Infrastructure and Planning
State government wants community thoughts and ideas about the future of the Yeerongpilly transit oriented development. Complete the online survey by Sunday 15 August or send your completed survey questionnaire ( 55 KB) to:
Transit Oriented Development and Design
Department of Infrastructure and Planning
Reply paid 15009
CITY EAST QLD 4002
Email: yeerongpillytod@dip.qld.gov.au
Yeerongpilly transit oriented development - Department of Infrastructure and Planning
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Hans Rosling on global population growth | Video on TED.com
Watch this explanation by Hans Rosling - and read the transcript - partly reproduced here.
This is great series by some of the world's greatest thinkers.
I still remember the day in school when our teacher told us that the world population had become three billion people. And that was in 1960. And I'm going to talk now about how world population has changed from that year and into the future. But I will not use digital technology as I've done during my first five TEDTalks. Instead, I have progressed. And I am, today, launching a brand new analog teaching technology that I picked up from Ikea: this box.
This box contains contains one billion people. And our teacher told us that the industrialized world, 1960, had one billion people. In the developing [world], she said, they had two billion people. And they lived away then. There was a big gap between the one billion in the industrialized world and the two billion in the developing world. The industrialized world, people were healthy, educated, rich, and they had small families. And their aspiration was to buy a car. And in 1960, all Swedes were saving to try to buy a Volvo like this. This was the economic level at which Sweden was. But in contrast to this, the developing world, far away, the aspiration of the average family there was to have food for the day. And they were saving to be able to buy a pair of shoes. There was an enormous gap in the world when I grew up. And this gap between the West and the rest has created a mindset of the world which we still use linguistically when we talk about "the West" and "the developing world." But the world has changed, and it's overdue to upgrade that mindset and that taxonomy of the world, and to understand it.
And that's what I'm going to show you. Because since 1960, what has happened in the world up to 2010 is that a staggering four billion people have been added to the world population. Just look how many
Protect Tamborine Mountain - YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW!
Landslides have occurred on Tamborine Mountain and now an inappropriate development application promises more to come. Concerned citizens are asking for openness and transparency for citizens when council deals with development applications. However few councils and governments - in our experience have provided that. Rhetoric yes - but in reality no.
There are many issues. Please look at website and exercise your democratic rights by contacting council - especially if you live in the Scenic Rim area.
From one page some issues are -
1 Bowler Geotechnical Pty Ltd refuse to produce report indicating safe habitability below St Bernards.
2 Beaudesert Shire Councils, Development Control Plan (DCP) prohibits development at the site.
3 Part of cliff falls again in 2008 at site of 1974 landslide.
4 Willmott Report clearly states cliffs at site are an active slip zone.
5 Ongoing rockfalls from cliffs in the area.
6 Pictures of 1974 landslide.
7 The links lead to relevant worldwide information.
8 St Bernards landslide destroys the spectacular "Secluded Falls".
9 Recognised landslide risk preconditions.
Protect Tamborine Mountain has more information - including contact details for Scenic Rim Council
Awakening The Dreamer - In Community
The old dream is rooted in separation, telling us it is “every person for themselves,” and we’ve become isolated from each other.
Now there is a resurgence of community, like-minded people banding together to find a voice together as the movement for a new future.
Community – coming together in unity – nourishes each of us in the work we take on ourselves. It also allows us to work together to tackle projects we couldn’t do alone. Together we are a powerful force for change, calling forth from our elected representatives, from our corporations and institutions the responses which build a future worth choosing. We are the voice of this future. Read more at site linked below.
Awakening The Dreamer - In Community
Prosperity Without Growth
'The crisis doesn't only make us free to imagine other models, another future, another world. It obliges us to do so.' .... President Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, September 2009
Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion?
In this explosive book, Tim Jackson - a top sustainability adviser to the UK government - makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations.
No one denies that development is essential for poorer nations. But in the advanced economies there is mounting evidence that ever-increasing consumption adds little to human happiness and may even impede it. More urgently, it is now clear that the ecosystems that sustain our economies are collapsing under the impacts of rising consumption. Unless we can radically lower the environmental impact of economic activity - and there is no evidence to suggest that we can - we will have to devise a path to prosperity that does not rely on continued growth.
Economic heresy? Or an opportunity to improve the sources of well-being, creativity and lasting prosperity that lie outside the realm of the market?
Tim Jackson provides a credible vision of how human society can flourish - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. Fulfilling this vision is simply the most urgent task of our times.
The book is a substantially revised and updated version of Jackson's controversial study for the Sustainable Development Commission, an advisory body to the UK Government. Since the report was published in March 2009, President Sarkozy has asked world leaders to join a revolution in the measurement of economic progress, Sir Nicholas Stern has warned 'at some point we would have to think about whether we want future growth', and John Prescott has called the current economic growth model 'immoral'. Read some more news articles on the growth debate Prosperity Without Growth
Saturday, July 10, 2010
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