The Mayor's Column
Mosman’s Sustainable Living Expo will be held on Saturday 4 August, 10am-3pm at the Mosman Art Gallery, Youth Centre and surrounds, adjacent to the Mosman Village Art and Crafts Markets.
We will be celebrating and promoting sustainable living, with a wide range of stalls, workshops, speakers, prizes, fun activities for kids and a free organic BBQ. Signs and entertainers, such as Solar Stan the Energy Man, will show the way.
There will be Indigenous dancing to celebrate our Aboriginal heritage and custodianship of the land for many thousands of years.
Find out how to be a responsible shopper and also buy fair trade products hand made in East Timor, Zimbabwe and Peru. I will be helping children paint canvas bags to take shopping instead of using plastic bags.
Free native plants will enhance your garden and cut water consumption, and there will be plenty of information and ideas on how to reduce our ecological footprint by reducing green house gas emissions, saving water and reducing waste.
Displays from Sydney Wildlife and Taronga Zoo will teach us about animal welfare and conservation.
Sustainable transport will be of great interest. Take up the sustainable transport challenge and ride, walk or take public transport to the Expo on Saturday and enter the draw to win a prize- Public transport options www.131500.info. We are also showing a film, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
Experts in environmental matters will be there to speak and to answer your questions. Come along to the Expo, join in the fun and discover how to live a more sustainable lifestyle that will benefit you and the environment.
Mosman Council has many other strategies underway.
- The Sustainability Advisory Group has met and will continue to discuss our response locally and globally.
- Council is holding a Seminar on ‘How to Create a Water-Wise, Eco-friendly Garden’ at Council Chambers on 14 August, 7-9pm.
- The Master Plumbers association will address a seminar on domestic water tanks.
- Council will be investigating the feasibility of setting up a community environmental education centre.
More information is available on Council’s website or phone Council’s Environment Officer on 9978 4043.
Cr Denise Wilton, Mayor of Mosman
