A Sustainable Suburb In the Making
Sustainable Chippendale is a community initiative setup to support the Sustainable Streets and Community Plan in Chippendale. If you are passionate about sustainability we'd love you to join us in getting behind this ground breaking project to establish a practical model for sustainable inner city living in Sydney.
Our local Dulux store gave Sustainable Chippo the yellow paint for our new raised bed gardens.
We painted recycled timber boxes that we picked up at Mascot which otherwise go to landfill!!
A big thank you to Garry, the manager at Dulux Chippendale for the very generous donation, which helped us make our streets even more beautiful!
So lovely people if you need paint, remember to head to
Dulux Chippendale
at 232 - 236 Cleveland St, Chippendale
The installation 'Second Life' is created to reflect the following characteristics of Myrtle St & Sustainable Chippendale:
1. Sustainability - created with organic and recycled materials collected from the streets
2. Our street as our living room - creation of a living room scene on the street
3. Edible / vegetable garden - planted with exotic microgreens, specially selected for variety of organic colours and textures. Rocket emeralds on the chair, amaranth red garnets on the hessian shawl, mung bean and peas in the planter basket
4. Multicultural heritage of the local residents- featuring a photo of Tayrona Park, Colombia by Maria Prada resident of 8 Myrtle St.
The installation is part of my entry requirement to Master of Fine Arts degree in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany http://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/start/
Internationally, the Bauhaus is known as one of the most influential currents in modernism with a profound influence in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.
Artist CV
Ratih Luhur graduated as BSc (Arch) from the University of Sydney in 1990. She completed Master of Visual Arts (Multi Media) with honours from Sydney College of the Arts in 2000 achieving High Distinction in all subjects. Ratih's design and artistic flare was awarded 2 of the 9 awards in William Van Alen Memorial Prize international competition by NIAE New York. Internationally, Ratih is also known as a spiritual healing practitioner and mentor. http://www.ratihluhur.com
Her work reflects her refined artistic style with sensitive spiritual and cultural awareness.
Second Life
The installation is created to reflect the following characteristics of Myrtle St & Sustainable Chippendale:
1. Sustainability - created with organic and recycled materials collected from the streets
2. Our street as our living room - creation of a living room scene on the street
3. Edible / vegetable garden - planted with exotic microgreens, specially selected for variety of organic colours and textures. Rocket emeralds on the chair, amaranth red garnets on the hessian shawl, mung bean and peas in the planter basket
4. Multicultural heritage of the local residents- featuring a photo of Tayrona Park, Colombia by Maria Prada resident of 8 Myrtle St.
The installation is part of my entry requirement to Master of Fine Arts degree in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany http://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/start/
Internationally, the Bauhaus is known as one of the most influential currents in modernism with a profound influence in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.
Artist CV
Ratih Luhur graduated as BSc (Arch) from the University of Sydney in 1990. She completed Master of Visual Arts (Multi Media) with honours from Sydney College of the Arts in 2000 achieving High Distinction in all subjects. Ratih's design and artistic flare was awarded 2 of the 9 awards in William Van Alen Memorial Prize international competition by NIAE New York. Internationally, Ratih is also known as a spiritual healing practitioner and mentor. http://www.ratihluhur.com
Her work reflects her refined artistic style with sensitive spiritual and cultural awareness.
Some great pics from Maria @ www.mariapradaphotography.com of Ratih's organic Art in front of her house. Big thanks Ratih for making the street even more lovely.
This Saturday 17th October at 3 pm we’re putting up a couple of raised bed gardens in Myrtle street.
Join us at 58 Myrtle if you’d like to plant something, get your hands dirty, have some fun and a chat. We’ll also work on the beds this Sunday around 1130.
The bed frames are from bedurveg - made of recycled timber - and you can see how stylish they are in the photos and how to build info here.
Our awesome Sean Foley bought a new tumbler compost bin of 300 litres and put it in place on Shepherd St on Saturday 23 May.
It has four screws so will probably stop vandals putting in bottles and rubbish.
It needs a couple of signs that Alexis made to go on it but it's about a quarter full and we have sealed off the other compost bin nearby so it should fill up soon. We'll remove the other compost bins and mover over to the tumbler bins as they are more vandal proof and easier to manage.
Thank you so much Sean!
This week we got our little road garden library rebuilt by some of our lovely neighbours, including the clever children who started the library! Thanks guys!
This one is bigger and better and it was built using recyled hard wood timber from a timber pallet provided by Toby's Estate. Thanks Toby's!
Here are some pics of Mick, Michael and the kids busy at work!
Where? The Library is at the corner of Pine st and Myrtle st and is for everyone!
Who can use it? Everyone!! This is a community initiative, run by our local children!
How does it work? You put in a book you are finished with and you take out one you would like to read! Simple like that!
Version 01 - 8 May 15
We change it as we learn by doing and work with each other in our community.
We welcome comments and suggestions on this management plan.
www.sustainablechippendale.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sustainable.chippendale/
Our Facebook active gardeners site is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sustainable.chippendale/
Road Garden Plan to turn our food waste into healthy soil and prevent us polluting by putting it into garbage trucks – we compost to clean Earth’s air
Goals:
Achievement of goals:
How we do it:
Caretakers:
Each garden bed has a nominated caretaker, and commitments that go along with it eg buying, transplanting and ensuring plants are watered, pruned and tidied as appropriate, making sure they are kept planted, picking up glass, bottles, food, stuff and generally tidying up after thoughtless people (sigh...).
We rely on ourselves – residents and businesses, not Council:
Generally, we don’t apply to Council for funding due to the unjustifiable amount of time, red tape and delay it takes costing more than the cost to us of just doing and paying for it ourselves. As Council has ceased its practice of giving us gardening gloves, secateurs and plants we make do with our own resources. And we have strong support from many local businesses who have given thousands of dollars for composting, plants and equipment since we began road gardening in 2008.
We tell our story:
When we garden we also put photos on the Sustainable Chippendale Facebook and Sustainable Chippendale websites to keep us all informed of what’s happening and to share the latest doings.
Our road gardens and road gardeners include the folks who are members of our Facebook gardening site: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sustainable.chippendale/
And some gardeners who are responsible for specific gardens include:
1. Raised bed on western side Shepherd St at the intersection with Daniels, and the garden on the south eastern corner of Shepherd & Daniels:
2. Maintenance of the Shepherd raised bed gardens on the eastern side of the street is carried out by one or more of the following:
3. Maintenance of the road gardens in Myrtle St from Pine to City Road is carried out by one or more of the following:
4. Maintenance of road garden, corner Pine and Daniels st:
5. Road garden library:
our little library at the corner of Pine and Myrtle - partly manages itself:
OTHER GARDENERS AND CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:
COMMENTS:
We welcome suggestions if they are well mannered and for the community's benefit. We ignore keyboard warriors, haters and trolls.
[This plan is a work in progress – help us garden, improve the plan and our much-loved suburb of Chippendale]
We have an exciting new bike path coming through Chippendale, but unfortunately our beautiful and healthy Tahitian Lime was on it's way and we had to transplant it, here are some photos of how it went!
Warwick and Eamonn digging out the Tahitian Lime ready for transplanting.
Serena with sledge hammer breaking up rocks to get a good rocky base for the lime and prevent it drowning in water.
Michael, Eamonn, Bianca and Serena working to free up the tree. We pruned it heavily to reduce the trauma for the tree being uprooted and transplanted.
Michael from QMC, the contractors building the bike path, with his machine to lift and move the lime.
Bianca, Serena and Eamonn with the tree in its new place. Fingers crossed the tree survives the trauma of the move
Great work guys! Thank you so much for saving our tree!
As seen on The Fifth Estate on the 2April 2015:
" Sustainability guru Michael Mobbs this week disconnected his terrace house in inner city Chippendale from the electricity grid.
On Tuesday the meters were disconnected. By Wednesday he was holding adrift the wires that connected his house to the grid.
This latest in a line of audacious action from Mobbs almost completes his quest that started in 1996 to become utility independent so he could minimise his impact on the planet.
Mobbs, a frequent contributor to The Fifth Estate, has over the years continued an unending campaign to green his patch of the world and as far afield as he can. There’s been a battery of media missiles – from newspapers articles, websites, television programs, and radio – ABC and shock jock Alan Jones included – not to mention his personal proselytising, group tours through his house, books he’s written, and individual consultancy, in order to change the world and help save the planet.
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We are very proud to have Michael in our neighbourhood!
