Toward Sustainable Futures

Sustainability Challenge Conference 21st & 22nd May 2010

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Connecting people throughout the design and building community

PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR SERIES

Do you want to know more about property development? Would you like to hear from those “in the know”? We have an exciting opportunity for you.

In House Group 3 and special guest speakers are presenting a series of 3 sessions in April to enlighten and excite you with current insider information about property development.

· Week 1 Individuals Investing In Property - “buy and hold”

Speakers: Matt Bell, Economist, Australian Property Monitor

Laurence Hedelman, E-Wealth

Peter Ward, Certain Wealth Group
PLUS PANEL of industry professionals

· Week 2 Renovation For Profit

Speakers: Chris Gray ‘Your Empire’, SKY Business Channel

Ted Quinton, Architect Masq architecture

Kade Hancock, Builder, Home Projectz

Plus PANEL of industry professionals

· Week 3 Big Picture of Development
Speakers: Alan Smuskowitz, Architect, Masq Architecture
Lewis Adey, Town Planner, Asquare Town Planning
Joseph Di Girolamo, Director, Next Construction
PLUS PANEL of industry professionals

DATES: 7, 14 and 21 April 2010

LOCATION: Home Ideas Centre, 61-63 O’Riordan Street, Alexandria, 2015

TIME: 6pm to 9pm

COST: $60 per session, $150 for all three.

RSVP: By 3 April 2010
Go to http://www.stickytickets.com.au/ihg3events

Be quick to RSVP as numbers are strictly limited!

Light refreshments are provided.

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SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE COMES TO PITTWATER

The Sustainability Challenge is a revolutionary new training and auditing tool that will assist organisations and communities in the shift to long-term sustainability.

Ian Cleland, from Toward Sustainable Futures is offering businesses the opportunity to take the Sustainability Challenge when they attend the Sustainability Conference in May 21st & 22nd.

Transitioning an organisational culture from short term “take, make, waste” thinking to one of long term sustainability is becoming a survival imperative for organisations operating in a world of increasingly scarce resources. Leveraging the successful Challenge methodology, the Sustainability Challenge will develop essential understanding and capability around complex issues such as emissions reduction, sustainable supply chains and social responsibility whilst auditing business culture’s attitudes towards sustainability.
The Sustainability Challenge conference is aimed at all people in small to medium enterprises who want to find way to make their business more profitable, efficient, effective and sustainable.

The conference will be held in May and will include key-note speakers and presenters from a wide range of disciplines in:

Ann Maree Huxluy MOSS (Models of Success and Sustainability ) Sustainability Challenge

Several Business CEO from SME's who have been engaged in the running a Sustainable busimess for up to ten years

Government representatives from Local, State & Federal government to present what the government is doing for SME's

Bank reprehensive presenting how they are able to provide appropriate financing for making SME's businesses sustainable

Jon Pratlett - Keynote Speaker & leadership facilitator

Bill Downing - environmentalQ integrates environmental thinking into everyday decisions of Australian businesses, helping them adapt to a low-carbon future.

Jerry Argyriou - Power Sense - award winning demand side management how to get the most out of your energy dollar with the right systems.

Ross Fyfe - Project manager - Infrastructure projects for 30 years the process of managing large projects from a small business perspectives. How your business can benefit from better management practices that will affect your bottom line.

This is a first for Pittwater and will be the catalyst for similar conferences around Australia to bring together people who are interested in working towards a more sustainable future.

For more information and booking your seat to the Sustainability Challenge

Send your details by filling out the form to the right.
OR
Ian Cleland,
Mob: 0414 977 209
PO Box 1546 Warriewood NSW 2102

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2010 Sustainability Challenge

The walking man preparing for 2010

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Video Update for event preparation for 2010

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Walk turning into a ride, 2010 to be a boom year

It has become obvious to everyone else that if I am going to do this trek from Melbourne to Brisbane that I should do it in a shorter time frame. With that in mind the journey will now be cycled on an electric cycle .If I was to cycle only every third day for four hours I will do the whole trip in 75 days. So starting at the end April I should be finished by the end of August.I am now in the process setting up all the events from May to September.

I have just had a meeting with Alain Chazelles from InHouse Group 3 this community of highly selected, qualified and like minded building professionals of the building industry (see article in About People newsletter http://www.aboutpeople.com.au/Pdf/ap_No02s.pdf) . Alain and I are working together to bring a number of events this year to the east coast of Australia that will bring SME together and help them formulate strategies that will provide opportunities that will make business more profitable and sustainable.

The next About People newsletter is starting to come together with a number of contributors from overseas. The next issue will have more inspirational and motivational stories. There will also be more helpful tips for your business and personal development. Each issue has had more content and by the end of this year will be bi-monthly magazine.

From the editor About People

Ian Cleland

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Conference - Sustainability in

business and people

This is for any business that wants to find out how to make their business greener and more sustainable.

The conference will cover the following areas:

What your business needs to do to keep your business plan on track.
What you need to do to keep your business profitable.
What you need to know about additional compliance and reporting requirements.
What are the regulatory requirements in running your business

Learn about other business models and see how you can adopt different ways to make your business more efficient .

How you can market your business and target you clients.
How to better serve your clients.
How to cut your energy bills and carry out energy auditing.
How you can be part of the future of sustainable businesses.
How government departments can help fund plans for changing your business to be part of the future of sustainable business.

Friday 167th April 2010
Venue to be determined April, 2010
Registration 8:30 am for 9:30 am start
The conference will be run over two days with the first morning starting with a keynote speaker address and one session of three hours of sustainability challenge. Find out where your want your business to be with regard to sustainability. Educate, debate and model to define how your your business can be more profitable through being greener and sustainable.
After lunch on the first day there will be workshops running concurrently in which attendees can choose to participate in what is relevant to their business or interests.
Evening function: Dinner and dance. Pre-dinner drinks starting at 7:00pm and dinner from 8.00pm

Sunday 17th April 2010 - Start 9:30 am
One main speaker for all attendees with the rest of the day of various workshops with a break for lunch and the conference finishing at 4:00pm.
Who should be attending?

All people in business.
All who want to find out ways to make your business more profitable, efficient, effective and one that fills your needs as a business owner.
All who want to be with other businesses that have different approaches, which will help you learn new approaches to be successful and profitable.
All businesses who want to find out about future requirements for business and reporting compliance.
All who wish to be in a great place to network with positive motivated people that are like you
All who wish to be in a place of learning that is fun.

There will also be trade displays by companies and individuals involved in the workshops.

For more information contact: Ian Cleland on 0414 977 209 or leave a comment with contact details

The Walking Man

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I have been an advocate of sustainability since the 70’s with the core area of interest in energy efficient building and systems.
Starting in April 2010 I am walking from Melbourne to Brisbane. The objectives of this walk are to:

•Facilitate workshops in every city and town along the journey to gather and share information for the creation of sustainable communities. These workshops will:
•Create a network of local resources that can be shared across the whole society.
•Create dynamic links between major population centers and rural country areas.
•Create trust that develops positive constructive dialogue which is solution focused.
•Develop strategies that work with local industries to develop sustainable businesses and industries.
•To be inclusive of all people who want to be involved in the process.
I will also film the walk and make a documentary , gathering stories about people I meet along the way.

My focus is to facilitate changes that stick and help people to create their own sustainable futures that are aligned with the values of the whole community and create the best solutions to the problems that are facing all of us and move toward sustainable futures.

in reference to: Google Sidewiki (view on Google Sidewiki)

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After consulting with John Eussen (www.eussen.com.au), who is assisting me in the promotion of About People and The Walking Man. The start of the walk from Melbourne to Brisbane has been postponed to 24th April, which is the during the Easter long weekend. This weekend is one the important events in our calendar where one person made the ultimate sacrifice, Jesus. My journey is about how we all can as individuals make a difference and work toward sustainable futures.

Our future is at stake and we all need to find a ways of overcoming the fears we have of the future and work toward a positive future filled with many possibilities.

In the lead up to the start of the walk I will be looking for people who wish to become involved either through sponsorship or become a participant in the walk.

You can be part of the journey by signing up for FREE membership by providing your name and email (in the form to the top right of the screen). Next week About People will be publishing the December issue of Newsletter. The About People Newsletter is about being positive uplifting and solution focused.

Over the next week I will be posting videos of my story and the reasons for making this journey.

I am about waking the talk .

Ian Cleland
The Walking Man

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Future Thinking

Question: do you think we can be sustainable in business?

I asked a group of business owners at a workshop I was facilitating what does sustainability mean to you and your business. All these businesses are associated with products and services associated with energy, energy efficientency and/or the built environment. The majority gave profitable as their main reason for being sustainable over and above the environment.

Having just said that I am in the process of developing a business plan that is based around sustainability which brings in the core values I have , that is, business needs to be more than just profitable it has be sustainable.

What is the meaning of sustainability to me. Humans can not be sustainable within a natural system, we manipulate and change a system to meet our needs, the only caveat I have is we maintain our natural systems for our survival.

One of the other beliefs I have is that I think humans will leave this planet and colonise other planets/systems, this gives us more choice for survival of the species, but first we need to maintain the system we life on at the moment and survive long enough to do it.

I like to think of futures that are beyond my life and that of my children, that to me is sustainability.

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism

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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism

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http://www.thewalkingman.com.au/index.htm

The Journey

I have been an advocate of sustainability since the 70’s with the core area of interest in energy efficient building and systems.
Starting in March 2010 I am walking from Melbourne to Brisbane via the Bi-centennial National Trail. The objectives of this walk are to:

Facilitate workshops in every city and town along the journey to gather and share information for the creation of sustainable communities. These workshops will:
Create a network of local resources that can be shared across the whole society.
Create dynamic links between major population centers and rural country areas.
Create trust that develops positive constructive dialogue which is solution focused.
Develop strategies that work with local industries to develop sustainable businesses and industries.
To be inclusive of all people who want to be involved in the process.

Film a documentary and gather stories about people I meet along the way to tell their story.

My focus is to facilitate changes that stick because people develop trust and are able to create their own sustainable future that is aligned with the values of the whole community.
This is not about me promoting my own dogma but to find ways that bring all interests to the table to create the best solutions to the problems that are facing all of us and move

Toward Sustainable Futures

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The walking man - the training has started

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When is graffiti art or when is it vandalism - a global problem or just being creative.

This is just not just a local problem, this a national and global issue.

As you can see from the video this is what has happened in the local area on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

As much as we want to stop the vandalism and catch the perpetrators. prosecute to the full extent of the law along with providing more security lighting and camera in and around a community. This is all at considerable cost, being footed by local council, community and business.

You have to ask the question, what is at the root cause of the problem in the first place, because as a lot of us say it was not happening in my day. It was but not so blatantly obvious. We are all willing to complain but few willing to help to find and implement a solution.

I believe in part that there has been a loss of respect for community values and this is just one manifestation of the changes happening in our society.

Do we want to create a community where all take responsibility and ownership for the community that we desire. This is about people and how we life with each other, about finding a solution that creates opportunities for positive change.

It is time for us to look for a better solution and not one which is about point scoring, but to work towards lasting change. This will take time and we have to start somewhere and now seems to be a god as time as any.

Stories About People

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Stories about people

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New story posted on http://www.aboutpeople.com.au/thestories.html . Each week read a new story on people and their life. See how people strive to achieve their goals. Find out what they had to do to overcome their challenges. What makes them who they are today and find out what their passions are in life.

See through other peoples experiences how they can help you achieve what you want out of your life. You can find out what makes you tick and have a better understanding for what you should be doing to have the life you want.

About People is about sharing the exhilaration of being alive and bring like minded people together to help each and have fun living your dreams.

This site can be a great site for promoting who you are what you do, through your story.

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aboutpeople.com.au will be finally up an running on Saturday this week the site content will be stories about people. How people's life evolves on their way to their goals. The trails and tribulations, success and failures, highs and lows of people's jouneys through life.

You can use the site to find out how have people achieved the results they have today. There will be stories that will fit where you are at in your life or you might have a story you would like to share, you might be able to help others with your life's experiences.

The stories will be true account of the individuals experiences and their willingness to share those experiences with others.

There will in time be others content:- poetry, photos and events that relate to peoples lifes. It will be a site of creativity, exploration, fun and uplifting experiences.

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Last Monday I was discussing with a production documentary company the making of the film documentary for the walk. They are interested in the concept and think it has great potential.

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Membership to The walking man
From the 31st July 2009 you will be able to join "The walking man".

What will you receive:

A free e-newsletter called About People. this will have stories about people, tips and tools for every day life and the inside on what is happening with regard to the walk along the bicentennial trail.

The Walking Workshop

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There will be a progressive workshop at all the towns and villages along the length of the walk from Melbourne to Brisbane. The walk will follow the Bicentennial National Trail.

The event will go from the 6th March 2010 to 20th December 2010. A full program of events at each town will be posted closer to start of the event.

The number of openings available for participants at any one time will vary according to where on the trail I am and what the workshop will be about.

All welcome to apply.