More Tours about Buildings and Food (and Environment and Energy)
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Join us and see what is happening design-wise in a small country town.
For less than the cost of the local produce in your lunch, come along and learn more about the changes underway through a walking tour of retrofitted community buildings, solar houses, creek revegetation, community forest and Murrnong permaculture development. Timing suits V-Line timetable.
More Tours about Buildings and Food (and Environment and Energy)
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Saturday 24 July, 2010
Time: 11am – 4pm
Cost: $10 adult, $5 child under 16
Bookings: Pre-register by phoning +61 3 5798 1735 or email rplandvogt@gmail.com
Stops along the walking tour include:
The energy efficiency retrofit of a 1970s Community Complex and the Early Childhood Centre in Violet Town demonstrates a great range of appropriate strategies to improve the way this building works.
HREP is a community powered restoration and design project for the Honeysuckle Creek and environs.
The Violet Town Community Forest, planted in 2006, is designed as an example of analogue forestry, to mimic the structure and functions of natural forest, while giving amenity, habitat, and future wood product yields.
Murrnong is designed as a permaculture community subdivision, with an established tree crop agriculture to provide for residents and local community.
Presented by Violet Town EcoLiving Project, Sponsored by Sustainability Victoria