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Schools & Youth

In these days of approaching climate, energy, lifestyle and business challenges, we hope that the schools, teachers and students of the Scenic Rim Region will find this section of our website really useful. After all, school is a place where hopefully lots of learning and…

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Business

Human civilization has been trading and exchanging goods, services, ideas and innovation for tens of thousands of years. We’ve been in business one way or another for a long, long time. Business, enterprise and industry now has a major role to play in both reducing…

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Households

The heart of sustainability lives in our homes...the places where we raise our kids, restore ourselves, grow relationships and families, garden, create, dream, care for pets, play, cook, eat, sleep, shower and so much more. Sustainability in the home is about both eco-efficiency – behaviours…

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Community

The Scenic Rim is a region of villages. We are so fortunate to be based within a living landscape of forests, mountains, big blue sky, and rivers and creeks because each day we can see what underpins our lives, families and communities: clean air, clean water, good…

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“The Story of Stuff” is an entertaining online and DVD resource that in 20 minutes explains how the current global industrial economic system operates and how it causes such ecological and social destruction. It also presents lots of alternatives including Local Living Economy, Zero Waste and so on. The Story of Stuff is highly recommended for schools, workplace training as well as community education. www.storyofstuff.com

 

The 7 minute “Story of Bottled Water” is now out too and is a terrific expose of the bottled water industry. www.storyofstuff.org/bottledwater

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    I’ve used “The Story of Stuff” for many business, school and community workshops and it’s the best resource I’ve ever come across for explaining sustainability. It’s entertaining, succinct and incredibly thought-provoking.

    Wednesday, 28 April 2010

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