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See Items From Now Through To 4th December 2025!
6th February 2026
Film - 8 Billion Angels
UK Government Announces Climate Armegeddon by 2030 - No Word From Albanese
TED Talk - Systems Thinking For Regenerative Agriculture & Fast Fashion
23rd January 2026
Building a Johnson-Su Bioreactor In your Rubbish Bin!
See this video from committee member Chris White on building your own J-Su Bioreactor in a plastic rubbish bin!
22nd January 2026
More Useful Information On The Wood Wide Web and how it works
21st January 2026
Excellent Video On Growing Climate Impacts and The Benefits of Mycorrhizzal Fungi From Chris White Our Committee Member In Melbourne
With serious climate events increasing due to polar winds from the South Pole being pushed north, the time left to address this the cause of this problem is running out. NB OSGM is using a similar soil biostimulant to the one mentioned in Chris' video, from "TM Agriculture" see: bestfarmigmingsystems.com.au/tm-agricultural-biostimulant/.
See also:-
18th January 2026
This Great Graphic Shows What A Zero Waste To Zero Emissions Transition Looks Like
Zero Emissions and Waste are a very important part of bringing pollution and emissions under control, then there are the other actions required to restore urban and rural landscapes through planting and restoring carbon in the soil.
International Treaty To Protect Our Oceans
This highly important treaty requires that nations collaborate to protect our oceans from overfishing and deep sea mining. The author of the article Luke McMillan, is a tireless campaigner for the protection of our oceans as the largest sequester of carbon, and one that is still not well understood.
14th January 2026
Excellent Video About One Planet Living
See this excellent video about One Planet Living, a framework that is used worldwide, including by Our Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree
13th January 2026
Climate Emergency Impacts On National Security
9th January 2026
The Crucial Role Of Tree-Bark In Climate Mitigation - Article from the Conversation
8th January 2026
Potential Solution to Waste Recycling That Does NOT Involve Burning It!!
With the so called Waste To Energy solution back on the the table for Tarago, this looks to be a much better solution!
6th January 2026
Climate Impact Mitigation For New Urban Developments
Below is an a link to an ABC news item on planting in a new Melbourne suburb to mitigate urban heat.
Tree by tree, this new suburb is dodging baking heat in summer
Thousands of young trees dot the streets and front gardens of this outer Melbourne suburb as part of a neighbourhood-wide push to create more shade and curb the urban heat island effect. Read the full story
This is what needs to be happening at Marys Mount.
Climate Council - Greg Mullins Warns Of Fire Risk
An important part of OSGM's work is flood and fire mitigation and is part of what has already been started at Marys Mount with the tree planting and will extend into the suburb itself:- Flood and Fire Mitigation
Advice from the Climate Council - Invest heavily in disaster preparation and community resilience at all levels of government so we’re as prepared as possible for the worsening fire risks we already face. The report covers fire risk and not other climate mitigation such as urban and broad-acre landscape regeneration. A such carbon reduction is covered but not sequestration.
4th January 2026
Measure YOUR Carbon Footprint
3rd January 2026
Marys Mount Sustainable Pilot Home Mindmap - Carbon Reduction (draft)
See this link
Climate Water Project 2025 Review
Report - a list of the great articles published in 2025 including the must read article: "The Forest-Water Connection" by Douglas Sheil
30th December
Project Management for Community Projects
Authorising Change as a Shared Act
This is a further article on emerging project management practice for community projects that promote the direct involvement of those affected by the project, so that they are fully involved rather than recipients of assistance. The WiWa ( Wisconsin - West Africa) Project is approaching a deliberate transition from exploratory design into structured planning, understood in the PM4NGOs DPro sense rather than as a conventional project “plan.”
Carbon Literacy
A defintion of carbon literacy
28th December 2025
The Small and The Big: Life's Fundamental Energetic Dichotomy
The Small and the Big: Life's Fundamental Energetic Dichotomy
This is a very thought provoking article on how the consumption of fossil fuels have thrown the earth's energy balance out of wack with the only practical solution being to adopt the principals of sutainability, as the retrievable amounts of raw materials continue to run-down. Adequate mineral resources need to be left for 3rd world nations to achieve a resonable standard of living.
27th December 2025
Keeping the LIghts On In Turbulent Times
Sustainable Supply Chain Solutions
Thanks go to Dr Casey LaFrance in the US, via LinkedIn, for this valuable guidance.
If we cast our minds to the height of the COVID pandemic, there were some two days in our Woolworths supermarket where there was very little fresh food in the store and evidence elsewhere in the store of panic buying.
It makes emminent sense that we work now to mitigate such situations, as they will assuredly happen again.
Luckily a member of our management committee is a very experienced project adviser who is already building our project management capabilities to make generally available.
22nd December 2025
Comfrey - The forgotten Plant That Has Amazing Fertiliser Properties
Comfrey
Mandatory Climate Reporting For Business
Whilst mandatory climate reporting is starting with large corporates and therefore to the likes of Bega Cheese, it will work its way down the ladder over a period time. Bega Cheese is a leader in the adoption of sustainable practices through the Bega Circular Valley Co-op.
16th December 2025
Huge Mycorrhizal Fungi Land Regeneration Project in Ethipoia
Ethiopian Landcsape Regeneration Project
11th December 2025
More on sequestration capability of Mycorrhizal Fungi From Chris White
Promoting the Growth of Mycorrhizal Fungi
10th December 2025
Strong Showing of Mycorrhizal Fungi At The Junction Parklands in the Whitehorse LGA Melbourne
The VLOG highlights the very large amount of carbon emissions that mycorrhizal fungi is capable of seuestering. To find out how much you will need to watch Chris White's excellent and most recent video.
7th December 2025
Updated Version of G-M Ecosystem Mindmap that Incorporates An Image of the G-M/SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub
Double click the middle of the plan to bring up an image of the Community Sustainability Hub
6th December 2025
Goulburn Mulwaree LGA Mindmap Published On the (UK) OnePlanet Website
Updated LGA plan includes an addition in regard to boosting youth employment
https://app.oneplanet.com/published
5th December 2025
Brilliant TED Talk On The How Restoring Our Natural World Will Restore Climate Equilibrium (https://go.ted.com/rekC)
We have lost sight that man is an animal and that agriculture, civilisation and industrialisation has taken us to where we are today with resultant environmental destruction that is driving the climate crises. Renewable Energy, unfortunately, will not restore the natural world, but reduced energy consumption through improved energy efficiency will help.
4th December 2025
Federal Government faces uproar over its approach to food policy
Please sign the petition, as per this link:- docs.google.com/document/d/1HtLRe_GDbuaBNTkxk7YN0IkLAwXaMUb9/edit
Initial Discussion With Bega Circular Valley On Collaboration - (https://begacircularvalley.com.au/)
As part of ongoing discussions with BCV on linking our work more closely, a catch-up is scheduled for after Christmas. OSGM's work is complementary to BCV's work, and whilst their's is on a larger scale, boots on the ground is also what is needed.
Helping Cercle To Promote The Use Of Recycable Coffee Cups
For more information on this scheme see the following link:- https://www.boomerangalliance.org.au/
Newsletter Items - From 3rd December
3rd December 2025 - Stop Press!!
(UK) National Emergency Briefing On Climate and Nature
The briefing starts around the 10 minutes mark into the recording and stresses that we have very little time left to take meaningful action.
Stressed was that the priority action is the restoration of NATURE and NOT the adoption of renewable energy. This is likewise OSGM's priority
The first speaker is very hard hitting and the third speaker, minute 29 onwards, stresses that restoring our natural world will deliver the most significant economic benefit. The 4th speaker talks about rebewable ernrrgy. Whilst OSGM has been pursuing that path since its inception, I do not believe that message is widely understood.
For more more information on the action being taken by OSGM to address the climate challenge at Marys Mount, can be found on the following link:- is www.facebook.com/share/p/1BZaTYYqUh/
OSGM Appointed A One Planet Living "Systems Connector"
The establishment of a team of "Systems Connectors" by a founder of OnePlanet.com, a sister company of Bioregional (UK), Pooran Desai, has been recently announced on LinkedIn, see:-
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7400206617637490688/.
This appointment of "Systems Connectors" is supportive of the message from the UK climate emergency briefing, to expedite building sustainability, starting with the restoration of Nature.
The Systems Connector role is one that OSGM has been purusing for some years now. Formailising that initiative under the OPL banner, have been doing now for some time, which is to connect up community groups across an LGA and across LGAs. The Community Sustainability Hub is the key building block of sustainable communities. The One Planet Living framework supports the CSH.
Another important support for building sustainable communities is the graduate and diploma course s on Sustainable Living that are run by the University of Tasmania. More soon on a partnering arrangement with UTAS.
Why Plants Need Both Red and Blue Light To Breath (From LinkedIn)
See link above, but in summary. light isn't just energy - its structured information, Photosynthesis is not a single wavelength event. It's a coherent photonic interaction between geometry , frequency and form.
23rd November 2025
See Items From Now Through To 4th December 2025!
6th February 2026
Film - 8 Billion Angels
UK Government Announces Climate Armegeddon by 2030 - No Word From Albanese
TED Talk - Systems Thinking For Regenerative Agriculture & Fast Fashion
23rd January 2026
Building a Johnson-Su Bioreactor In your Rubbish Bin!
See this video from committee member Chris White on building your own J-Su Bioreactor in a plastic rubbish bin!
22nd January 2026
More Useful Information On The Wood Wide Web and how it works
21st January 2026
Excellent Video On Growing Climate Impacts and The Benefits of Mycorrhizzal Fungi From Chris White Our Committee Member In Melbourne
With serious climate events increasing due to polar winds from the South Pole being pushed north, the time left to address this the cause of this problem is running out. NB OSGM is using a similar soil biostimulant to the one mentioned in Chris' video, from "TM Agriculture" see: bestfarmigmingsystems.com.au/tm-agricultural-biostimulant/.
See also:-
- buiding a farm-sized Johnson-Su Biorector on this page.
- how to promote the growth of mycorrhizal fungi on your property on this page
- mycorrhizal fungi project in Uworra Close, Goulburn on this page.
18th January 2026
This Great Graphic Shows What A Zero Waste To Zero Emissions Transition Looks Like
Zero Emissions and Waste are a very important part of bringing pollution and emissions under control, then there are the other actions required to restore urban and rural landscapes through planting and restoring carbon in the soil.
International Treaty To Protect Our Oceans
This highly important treaty requires that nations collaborate to protect our oceans from overfishing and deep sea mining. The author of the article Luke McMillan, is a tireless campaigner for the protection of our oceans as the largest sequester of carbon, and one that is still not well understood.
14th January 2026
Excellent Video About One Planet Living
See this excellent video about One Planet Living, a framework that is used worldwide, including by Our Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree
13th January 2026
Climate Emergency Impacts On National Security
9th January 2026
The Crucial Role Of Tree-Bark In Climate Mitigation - Article from the Conversation
8th January 2026
Potential Solution to Waste Recycling That Does NOT Involve Burning It!!
With the so called Waste To Energy solution back on the the table for Tarago, this looks to be a much better solution!
6th January 2026
Climate Impact Mitigation For New Urban Developments
Below is an a link to an ABC news item on planting in a new Melbourne suburb to mitigate urban heat.
Tree by tree, this new suburb is dodging baking heat in summer
Thousands of young trees dot the streets and front gardens of this outer Melbourne suburb as part of a neighbourhood-wide push to create more shade and curb the urban heat island effect. Read the full story
This is what needs to be happening at Marys Mount.
Climate Council - Greg Mullins Warns Of Fire Risk
An important part of OSGM's work is flood and fire mitigation and is part of what has already been started at Marys Mount with the tree planting and will extend into the suburb itself:- Flood and Fire Mitigation
Advice from the Climate Council - Invest heavily in disaster preparation and community resilience at all levels of government so we’re as prepared as possible for the worsening fire risks we already face. The report covers fire risk and not other climate mitigation such as urban and broad-acre landscape regeneration. A such carbon reduction is covered but not sequestration.
4th January 2026
Measure YOUR Carbon Footprint
3rd January 2026
Marys Mount Sustainable Pilot Home Mindmap - Carbon Reduction (draft)
See this link
Climate Water Project 2025 Review
Report - a list of the great articles published in 2025 including the must read article: "The Forest-Water Connection" by Douglas Sheil
30th December
Project Management for Community Projects
Authorising Change as a Shared Act
This is a further article on emerging project management practice for community projects that promote the direct involvement of those affected by the project, so that they are fully involved rather than recipients of assistance. The WiWa ( Wisconsin - West Africa) Project is approaching a deliberate transition from exploratory design into structured planning, understood in the PM4NGOs DPro sense rather than as a conventional project “plan.”
Carbon Literacy
A defintion of carbon literacy
28th December 2025
The Small and The Big: Life's Fundamental Energetic Dichotomy
The Small and the Big: Life's Fundamental Energetic Dichotomy
This is a very thought provoking article on how the consumption of fossil fuels have thrown the earth's energy balance out of wack with the only practical solution being to adopt the principals of sutainability, as the retrievable amounts of raw materials continue to run-down. Adequate mineral resources need to be left for 3rd world nations to achieve a resonable standard of living.
27th December 2025
Keeping the LIghts On In Turbulent Times
Sustainable Supply Chain Solutions
Thanks go to Dr Casey LaFrance in the US, via LinkedIn, for this valuable guidance.
If we cast our minds to the height of the COVID pandemic, there were some two days in our Woolworths supermarket where there was very little fresh food in the store and evidence elsewhere in the store of panic buying.
It makes emminent sense that we work now to mitigate such situations, as they will assuredly happen again.
Luckily a member of our management committee is a very experienced project adviser who is already building our project management capabilities to make generally available.
22nd December 2025
Comfrey - The forgotten Plant That Has Amazing Fertiliser Properties
Comfrey
Mandatory Climate Reporting For Business
Whilst mandatory climate reporting is starting with large corporates and therefore to the likes of Bega Cheese, it will work its way down the ladder over a period time. Bega Cheese is a leader in the adoption of sustainable practices through the Bega Circular Valley Co-op.
16th December 2025
Huge Mycorrhizal Fungi Land Regeneration Project in Ethipoia
Ethiopian Landcsape Regeneration Project
11th December 2025
More on sequestration capability of Mycorrhizal Fungi From Chris White
Promoting the Growth of Mycorrhizal Fungi
10th December 2025
Strong Showing of Mycorrhizal Fungi At The Junction Parklands in the Whitehorse LGA Melbourne
The VLOG highlights the very large amount of carbon emissions that mycorrhizal fungi is capable of seuestering. To find out how much you will need to watch Chris White's excellent and most recent video.
7th December 2025
Updated Version of G-M Ecosystem Mindmap that Incorporates An Image of the G-M/SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub
Double click the middle of the plan to bring up an image of the Community Sustainability Hub
6th December 2025
Goulburn Mulwaree LGA Mindmap Published On the (UK) OnePlanet Website
Updated LGA plan includes an addition in regard to boosting youth employment
https://app.oneplanet.com/published
5th December 2025
Brilliant TED Talk On The How Restoring Our Natural World Will Restore Climate Equilibrium (https://go.ted.com/rekC)
We have lost sight that man is an animal and that agriculture, civilisation and industrialisation has taken us to where we are today with resultant environmental destruction that is driving the climate crises. Renewable Energy, unfortunately, will not restore the natural world, but reduced energy consumption through improved energy efficiency will help.
4th December 2025
Federal Government faces uproar over its approach to food policy
Please sign the petition, as per this link:- docs.google.com/document/d/1HtLRe_GDbuaBNTkxk7YN0IkLAwXaMUb9/edit
Initial Discussion With Bega Circular Valley On Collaboration - (https://begacircularvalley.com.au/)
As part of ongoing discussions with BCV on linking our work more closely, a catch-up is scheduled for after Christmas. OSGM's work is complementary to BCV's work, and whilst their's is on a larger scale, boots on the ground is also what is needed.
Helping Cercle To Promote The Use Of Recycable Coffee Cups
For more information on this scheme see the following link:- https://www.boomerangalliance.org.au/
Newsletter Items - From 3rd December
3rd December 2025 - Stop Press!!
(UK) National Emergency Briefing On Climate and Nature
The briefing starts around the 10 minutes mark into the recording and stresses that we have very little time left to take meaningful action.
Stressed was that the priority action is the restoration of NATURE and NOT the adoption of renewable energy. This is likewise OSGM's priority
The first speaker is very hard hitting and the third speaker, minute 29 onwards, stresses that restoring our natural world will deliver the most significant economic benefit. The 4th speaker talks about rebewable ernrrgy. Whilst OSGM has been pursuing that path since its inception, I do not believe that message is widely understood.
For more more information on the action being taken by OSGM to address the climate challenge at Marys Mount, can be found on the following link:- is www.facebook.com/share/p/1BZaTYYqUh/
OSGM Appointed A One Planet Living "Systems Connector"
The establishment of a team of "Systems Connectors" by a founder of OnePlanet.com, a sister company of Bioregional (UK), Pooran Desai, has been recently announced on LinkedIn, see:-
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7400206617637490688/.
This appointment of "Systems Connectors" is supportive of the message from the UK climate emergency briefing, to expedite building sustainability, starting with the restoration of Nature.
The Systems Connector role is one that OSGM has been purusing for some years now. Formailising that initiative under the OPL banner, have been doing now for some time, which is to connect up community groups across an LGA and across LGAs. The Community Sustainability Hub is the key building block of sustainable communities. The One Planet Living framework supports the CSH.
Another important support for building sustainable communities is the graduate and diploma course s on Sustainable Living that are run by the University of Tasmania. More soon on a partnering arrangement with UTAS.
Why Plants Need Both Red and Blue Light To Breath (From LinkedIn)
See link above, but in summary. light isn't just energy - its structured information, Photosynthesis is not a single wavelength event. It's a coherent photonic interaction between geometry , frequency and form.
23rd November 2025
Restoring Our Landscapes Through Nature, NOT Technology! - Biotic Regulation and Biotic Pump
BBR&BP! - A very interesting and important article on restoring our landscapes in order to bring the climate back into balance, a recurrant theme that is gaining currency. This is the course that OSGM, as a founder of the SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub, has been launched for six years. The mission includes emissions reduction, flood and drought mitigation and, bringing nature into our suburbs, the latter in particular in new developments, such as Marys Mount in Goulburn-Mulwaree and possibly similar developments in Wingecarribee.
The above task can be assisted in a number of well-established ways, preceded, in some cases, by a large boot up the backside!!! Here are some of those boot-inspired initiatives:-
Stop Press!! Pollution of Waterways In Southern Highlands A Risk to Water Quality In Warragamba Dam
See/listen to this recoding of a presentation delivered by by Dr Ian Wright in WIngecarribee organised by our sister organisation in Wingecarribee comprising: WinZero, Landcare Southern Highlands and Regen Action:- Dr Ian Wright. You can help by submitting an objection to the EPA.
Launch of A New Website Section On Community/Personal Sustainability Opportunities
- mobilising the community, business and individuals to take action
- also on the achievements of our citizens, a good example can be found following Sustainable Property in Run-O-Waters. Join-up and be a part of the ACTION!!
Report On "The Towards A More Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree Event" - 6th November
Whilst attendance was not high there was a lot of useful discussion one such discussion led to OSGM seeking a partnership with the University of Tasmania's faculty of Community Sustainability (no response forthcoming as yet).
Looking for A Career In Sustainable Living Or More Information About Climate Impacts?
Climate Shift & Sustainable Living - University Of Tasmania
The Australian Food Network (AFN) Joins the G-M Community Sustainability Network
OSGM and now the G-M/SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub has a long association with the AFN that is now normalising as an organisation help deliver a very mportant part of the community program. See this link for more information
Marys Mount Tree Planting and Rejuvenation now on permanent hold due to the absence of volunteers.
BBR&BP! - A very interesting and important article on restoring our landscapes in order to bring the climate back into balance, a recurrant theme that is gaining currency. This is the course that OSGM, as a founder of the SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub, has been launched for six years. The mission includes emissions reduction, flood and drought mitigation and, bringing nature into our suburbs, the latter in particular in new developments, such as Marys Mount in Goulburn-Mulwaree and possibly similar developments in Wingecarribee.
The above task can be assisted in a number of well-established ways, preceded, in some cases, by a large boot up the backside!!! Here are some of those boot-inspired initiatives:-
- Building a picture of ecosystems in our LGAs by connecting-up like-minded community groups and commercial entities.
- The UK company that developed the OPL mindmapping/plannng tool, has launched a "Systems Connector" training program attended by a member of the Community Sustainability Hub Committee. The systems connector role is primarily one of facilitation and the first step is to bring like-minded groups together. This has been a challenge in G-M.
- Plans by Bioregional, the developer and owner of the One Planet Living framework, an organisation of some 30 years standing, is planning to invest further in the promotion of One Planet Living in Australia. Bioregional provide training and consulting services in the UK. Given the challenges and obstacles in the adoption of the OPL framework in the G-M LGA, mentioned above, it might be better to find a more progressive LGA in which to invest funds, to avoid unnecessary risk.
Stop Press!! Pollution of Waterways In Southern Highlands A Risk to Water Quality In Warragamba Dam
See/listen to this recoding of a presentation delivered by by Dr Ian Wright in WIngecarribee organised by our sister organisation in Wingecarribee comprising: WinZero, Landcare Southern Highlands and Regen Action:- Dr Ian Wright. You can help by submitting an objection to the EPA.
Launch of A New Website Section On Community/Personal Sustainability Opportunities
- mobilising the community, business and individuals to take action
- also on the achievements of our citizens, a good example can be found following Sustainable Property in Run-O-Waters. Join-up and be a part of the ACTION!!
Report On "The Towards A More Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree Event" - 6th November
Whilst attendance was not high there was a lot of useful discussion one such discussion led to OSGM seeking a partnership with the University of Tasmania's faculty of Community Sustainability (no response forthcoming as yet).
Looking for A Career In Sustainable Living Or More Information About Climate Impacts?
Climate Shift & Sustainable Living - University Of Tasmania
- The Climate Shift: Exploring Science, Empowering Action is a 20-hour, self-paced short course covering environmental, economic, social and technological perspectives on climate change.
The Australian Food Network (AFN) Joins the G-M Community Sustainability Network
OSGM and now the G-M/SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub has a long association with the AFN that is now normalising as an organisation help deliver a very mportant part of the community program. See this link for more information
Marys Mount Tree Planting and Rejuvenation now on permanent hold due to the absence of volunteers.
News and Notices as Of 25th October 2025
TARAGO INCINERATOR INQUIRY - OBJECT To The Waste Incinerator - Closing date is October 31.
2. Marys Mount Tree Planting and Rejuvenation 2nd November -HELP NEEDED!!
3. "Towards A More Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree"
4. From Our Melbourne -based Committee Member Chris White - What is Mycorrhizal Fungi and MF In Action At Junction Road Parklands Melbourne
- Link is HERE Please dont miss this opportunity to "Stand up for the Bush" and for our regional communities. Please see these important notes from Ian Anderson who is leading the charge in Goulburn:-
- "I would also ask you to please make a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry on Waste to Energy - item one! The incinerator technology is still an issue but the big thing for you to think about is, if this incinerator is built and operated in our shire, we will have Sydney's waste coming here indefinitely as there is no incentive to reduce / manage waste. hat means tourism will be down, local businesses will suffer and property prices will be down - not a lot to look forward to for us or our children".
2. Marys Mount Tree Planting and Rejuvenation 2nd November -HELP NEEDED!!
3. "Towards A More Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree"
- On 6th November at The Soldiers Club 6-7.30pm and On Zoom, See:-https://www.facebook.com/share/15EkVXAs4j8/
- Agenda includes a presentation from the GMC Councillor Responsible For the Citizen Sustainability Advisory Group
4. From Our Melbourne -based Committee Member Chris White - What is Mycorrhizal Fungi and MF In Action At Junction Road Parklands Melbourne
5. Extension Of the G-M LGA mindmaps and Much More
The G-M LGA mindmap/plan has been enhanced in two major ways:-
- Through the work of our capable lead on the OPL framework Leonie Martin of the SustainableLedger, on the:-
- Marys Mount mindmap/project plan and by the linking of associated projectsto that plan such as the one for the G-M LGA
- The G-M Ecosystem plan that will is being exteded to include other community groups listed below. NB This is intended to encourage community groups nd members of the public to participate in the building of a more sustainable community through the Community Sustainability Hub:-
- Schools local iniatives that are planned to link in with those of NSW Dept Education
- Community Groups - discussions underway with a number of community to encourage membership
- ports Groups - safeguard playing fields from climate impact
- Opportunitites For Local Schools Include:-
- research into building local sustainability and direct involvement
- generate an income by building Johnson-Su bioreactors and selling the compost to the school community
- Promote joining community groups
- Schools local iniatives that are planned to link in with those of NSW Dept Education
- Opportunities For Community Groups Presented by the G-M CSH Include:-
- attracting new members in order to secure the future of their groups and, hence, the community's future
6. The SustainableLedger - Find Help On Reducing Your Business Costs
7. Capital Joint Region Organisation (CRJO)'s Community Sustainability Strategy Plan
- The CRJO plan, together with the Goulburn Mulwaree Community Strategic Plan, to which OSGM's plans are aligned can both be found here.
8. Website Update Delivers New And Sections That Will Expand Over Time
OSGM will be seeking your story!
- My Sustainable Property & Story
- My Sustainable Neighbourhood
- My Sustainable Business
- My Sustainable School
- My Sustainable Farm
- My Sustainable Community Group
Content Of prior newsletters
UK Equivalent Of G-M/SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub Plan
- Read About Horsham District Council and there emissions reduction plan
One Planet Living Framework Submitted To The UK Government's Cabinet Office For As A National Strategy
Official Climate Outlook For Australia
- If you blinked, you might have missed the recent and much delayed release of Australia's terrifying climate future. We can make a difference at the LGA level and by networking that action across SE NSW. This is what OSGM's work and that of the Community Sustainability Hub is all about. That work is supported by the use of the widely adopted One Planet Living Framework and app. We have five (5) years left to stop the temperature rising to 5 degrees above the benchmark
Federal MP For Eden Monaro. Minister Kristy McBain Joins OSGM 's Fb Group
- OSGM welcomes the Minister's participation in OSGM's activities across G-M and into Eden Monaro in building its social and economic sustainability
Contact Made With The Southern NSW Local Health Department
- Contact is awaited now from Goulburn Base Hospital in respedct of the benefits that OSGM's program delivers
Email From Rotary International On Plantings Advertised in September Newsletter
- From Adrian Polhill of Rotary International
- Yesterday (11th October) , we planted 1000 trees at Charlie Massy's farm near Berridale. A wonderful group of 38 volunteers worked very hard ...including Greg and Heather from Landcare Goulburn and Southern Highlands . Thank you for promoting this event and the one in Crookwell.
- Regards Adrian (Polhill)
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- Looking for help with planting trees on Farm Land, you can contact Adrian Polhill on 0424 478 498
GMC Cycle Path Program
- The Council's cycle path initative, the latest being around Victoria Park is most welcome and can only with eco-tourism. And linking that track up to the riverside walking/cycling track would be useful, in particular if the available shade along that track can be increased, as is already happening over the creek from Warrigal, behind Green Valley Road. Such a program could complement the Rail Trail initiative, but more immediately.
News September 2025
- OSGM's Event "Towards A More Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree"
- On 6th November at The Soldiers Club 6-7.30pm and On Zoom, See:-https://www.facebook.com/share/15EkVXAs4j8/
- Agenda includes presentation from a Councillor
- INCINERATOR INQUIRY - OBJECT To The Waste Incinerator - Link is HERE
Closing date is October 31.
Please dont miss this opportunity to "Stand up for the Bush" and for our regional communities. - Raina's Permaculture Events: Course over 9 Weeks starts 16th October
- Information From Chris White On The Significant Sequestration Potential of Mycorrhizal Fungi
- Draft One Planet Living Mindmap and Project Plan For Goulburn-Mulwaree
- A Cimate First Foreign Policy for Australia - Australian Security Leaders Climate Group
News August 2025
- Rotary Adopt A Tree 're-greening' Spring Events
- September 27 Crookwell, Maia and Phillip Gould (previously planting 2024).
- October 11 Berridale, Charlie and Fiona Massy (previous plantings 2022, 2024).
- Please consider bringing your family and friends, and staying an extra day or two to enjoy some other activities e.g. cycling country roads around Crookwell, or walking in the Kosciusko National Park. For those volunteers coming to the planting at Charlie Massy's property, rooms in a lodge in Jindabyne are available. If anyone has a question contact Adrian Polhill at 0424 478 498
Happy planters can register via
https://rotaryadoptatree.org.au/upcoming-plantings
https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/treeplanting
- Ecologist for Hire
- Dan Florance formerly of ANU Sustainable Farms and now of Woodlands Ecosystems is looking for suitable work in respect of:-
- direct seeding, revegetation design, landscape planning and ecological consultancy
- Contact details are:- 0448 704 189, [email protected], woodlandecosystems.com.au
- NB Dan is a member of the Goulburn Mulwaree/SE NSW Community Sustainability Hub
- Bioregional UK - Developers of One Planet Livings Impressive 30 Year Anniversary Report - www.bioregional.com/news-and-opinion/impact-review-2024-25?
- Latest On Marys Mount House and Garden Sustainaility Pilot
- Latest On Plan for a Sustainable Goulburn Mulwaree (G-M LGA Plan)
CSH Newsletter May 2025
Help Fight The Tarago Waste Incinerator
ABC Lifeline Episode That Includes An Item on Beneficial Soil Bacteria
OSGM Bulletin Re Opposition to Extension of Woodside Project
Water NSW/Mulloon Institute Sydney Water Riverine Restoration Program
Report On Building a Passive House in Tarago NSW
Report On AELA Conference: Ethical Futures For People and The Planet - May 2025
SE NSW Emissions Fact Sheets From ZeroSE - May 2025
Progress Report & Next Planting Event At Marys Mount - May 2025
Mycorrhizal Fungi Planting Project - May 2025
One Planet Living - May 2025
CSH Newsletter February 2025
CSH Newsletter August 2024 V2
CSH Newsletter June 2024
CSH Bulletin Regional NSW Drought Resilience Plan 19-05-24
CSH Newsletter May 2024
CSH Newsletter February 2024 V2
CSH Newsletter 24-12-2023
CSH Newsletter 1-12-2023
CSH Newsletter Tarago Toxic Waste Incinerator Petition 27-10-23
CSH Newsletter 15-10-23
- Mycorrhizal Fungi Features From SPUN In World Renown Magazine Nature
- SPUN - Comprehensive Information on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Where It Occurs
- This an event notice of which I had missed some time back and that it make sense we align with as far as possible. There is no recognition in that event of the work carried out by OSGM already