Expressions of interest are sought from people with an appropriate background and range of skills to assist REAG with the project.
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All twenty-one candidates for the upcoming Council elections for South, East, and West wards were invited to give responses to key survey statements and share their vision on sustainability. This is what they wrote. A big thank you to the fourteen candidates who provided responses.
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Thanks to grants from Bank Australia and Central Victoria Greenhouse Alliance/MASH and local leg-work from MRSG’s Sustainable Malmsbury action group the Malmsbury Fire Brigade will no longer have to worry about power outages during the bushfire season.
Read MoreGiven the unprecidented times with Covid restrictions we have come up with some exciting and creative changes for the 2020 festival.
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Many families in the Macedon Ranges depend on farmers’ markets for their livelihood. In the interest of supporting local food producers and farmers and enabling residents to buy food during this critical time, the Woodend Community Farmers’ Market will continue to be held throughout the COVID-19 crisis on the first Saturday of each month, 9am to 1pm, at the corner of High and Forest Streets, Woodend, albeit in a drastically changed format and notwithstanding further advice from government authorities.
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MRSG is on the verge of signing an agreement to take over the running of a project that offers a range of sustainable home improvements to lower income households at no cost to the occupant.
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A number of organisations in the Macedon Ranges, including Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group and XR Macedon Ranges, encourage the residents and ratepayers of Macedon Ranges Shire to request formally that Council declares a Climate Emergency.
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At the Australia Day Awards ceremony in Kyneton Town Hall today (26th January 2020), Lisa Richards, leader of MRSG’s Waste Action Group, was named Macedon Ranges Citizen of the Year for her outstanding volunteer work in educating the local community not only about the problems of waste but also the opportunities that a sensible approach to waste can afford.
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Today, the people of Woodend showed just what kind of community we are by raising around $3,500 for the Bushfire Disaster Appeal at the Woodend Community Farmers’ Market run by the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group (MRSG).
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With the harrowing events in mind of large areas of the Eastern states engulfed by bushfires over the past several weeks, our Woodend CFA will have a very timely presence at the Woodend Community Farmers’ Market this Saturday, 4th January 2020.
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Want to contribute something positive really makes a difference? Want to be involved in a friendly community of people who also share the desire to make the Macedon Ranges a more sustainable place to live? Do you have some spare time and have organisational and planning skills and experience that you want to put to good use? If so, there are presently three openings, one of which may be a perfect fit for you.
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For their short term science project, a small group of year 8 students chose the topic of honeybee biosecurity in Australia, particularly with respect to the varroa mite.
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Minutes from the MRSG Annual General Meeting
Held at Woodend Neighbourhood House on 12th October 2019.
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Please consider completing the online survey or writing a formal submission to highlight these concerns before the 30 September 2019 deadline.
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Over 70 students from the most disadvantaged schools in Victoria will get free places at Doxa’s Malmsbury Camp thanks to a solar gift from the Hepburn Solar Bulk Buy, the sister bulk-buy of MASH.
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Member for Macedon Mary-Anne Thomas visited New Gisborne Primary School on August 27th to discuss their capital project and test their new solar panels, allocated to the school as part of an $83,000 grant.
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The Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group is looking for an experienced communications professional who will be able train and advise MRSG committee members and action group leaders and their representatives in the use of our website, newsletters, and social media.
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On 15th August, MRSG received $6,000 for an Events and Festivals Grant from the Macedon Ranges Shire Council to go towards the costs in running next year's Sustainable Living Festival in Woodend in November 2020.
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Paul and Natasha Holgate have some exciting news to announce: the opportunity for members of the community to buy shares in their business via an equity-based crowd fund to the public. In that way people can invest in solar and in Holgate brewhouse.
Join them at Holgate Brewhouse this Friday 2 August from 5pm for nibbles and $7 pints of Draught Lager and Mt Macedon Pale Ale - and hear their special announcement at 7pm.