Fwd: The Final Run! Carbon Neutral School

[Luke Reade]

Hi Guys

Thanks for those who have already given. With a little over a week to go, we're on the home stretch!

Please help us get Queenslands first Carbon Neutral school!  There are some great rewards - if you're outside of Brisbane, I'm happy to discuss what we can give you near your home!

Luko

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From: Energetic Communities <energeticc...@gmail.com>
Date: 8 October 2014 13:00
Subject: The Final Run! Carbon Neutral School
To: Luke <luke.a...@gmail.com>

Carbon Neutral School Crowd Funding Campaign - Just 8 days to go! View this email in your browser Beasts and Gardens in the City Update Halfway there! Crowd Funding Project A zero carbon school growing it's own food? Students learning sustainability with dirty hands? One anonymous donor has given us $1000! We're almost at 50%! Can you join our other 60 supporters and donate $25, $50, $500, $5000 or an amount that suits you DONATE NOW What donors and supporters have said: "Great to see my old school working on such a great project." (Alexandra McCallum) "Keep up the good work. I was a preschool teacher for years, and my kids loved to garden. This project sounds awesome and I hope it is the first of many." (Elizabeth Cowie) "Awesome work Luke! Also super excited to get my Formidable album!" (Andrew Tovey) "Looks like great work going on - glad to be apart of it!" (Lizz Hills) The Project  (see full project here): Energetic Communities is embarking on an ambitious plan to help Corinda State High School go carbon neutral. As part of this, we are inviting you to donate to our Crowd Funding Project to help build a community garden. We'll likely be running a Permablitz to really get this happening, like the one at Paradise Community Garden. NEW REWARDS   FREE PERMACULTURE DESIGN CONSULATION We're just $5 off 50%! So in addition to the rewards listed below, we'll give away two free 2-hour permaculture design consultations (at your home), randomly selected by anyone from the Brisbane area who donates in the next 24 hours (before 5pm Oct 9th).   PERMAFEST One hell of a way to get us over 50% - We are offering to send just two people who donate over $400 to Permafest (just 2 weekends away!): http://permafest.net.au/ There are only two of these available, so join others who have already donated and we'll pay for you to join the regions network of permaculturalists and some of our local bands! (All bands and facilitators are contributing financially to this event) Permafest is a collaborative fusion of Permaculture designers, food growers, musicians, healers, artists, cooks, weavers, builders and artisans – sharing skills and inspiration in a spirit of joyous celebration. We offer practical, creative workshops to empower participants with skills that support the reintegration of human culture into the cycles and rhythms of our natural environment. The Permafest Vision is to celebrate life and conscious culture in a spirit of participatory gratitude to the elements of nature and the land which we gather – to leave a positive contribution to the people, the natural environment, as well as the food, fibre and fuel producing capacity of the space that hosts us. Permafest is for you, our family / community / creatives and we look forward to bringing it together for the first time this year at Paradise One. HELP THE CAUSE Queensland's first zero carbon school? Beasts and Gardens in the City project! DONATE NOW F O L L O W our C A M P A I G N REWARDS We think this is an opportunity to help the students. If y0u help us help the students by donating to our campaign, we'll give you the option to select one of the following rewards (more to come!): CD's: Hannaka or Formidable Vegetable Sound System WORKSHOPS: Seed Saving, Growing Vegies, Building Compost, Worm Farming, Bush Permaculture and more! BEE KEEPING WORKSHOP PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE FOOD CONNECT BOXES PERMAFEST GARDEN PACKS FARM TOURS This is about the students, so feel free to donate without the rewards!  Click here to find out more and donate   Thank you to those who have given already - Tim, Jessie, Daniel, Richard, Hayli, Elizabeth, Joan, Sue, Natalie  and several anonymous donors. We are Grateful!.   Click here to find out more and donate  FORWARD TO FRIEND   THE PROJECT (see full project here):   We think a community garden and a carbon neutral school offer students an amazing possibility! Energetic Communities want your assistance to help Corinda State High School build an outdoor classroom and create a vibrant urban community farm on the school's existing agricultural farm.   We will teach students how to be self sufficient, to grow their food from seed to plate (or banana leaf)! Students will be much more engaged in practical activities and team building.    The gardens would provide students with positive skills including creativity, critical thinking, responsibility, cooperation and autonomy, as well as self-esteem and physical activity, benefitting the sustainability of our communities, cultures, and local economies. Our goal is to build an outdoor classroom, permaculture gardens, community allotments, community composting facility, and to redesign the school grounds to grow local food using permaculture, potentially making it Australia’s first school based certified organic community farm and eco-centre.    Click here to find out more and donate FORWARD TO FRIEND    Reward Preview: Northey Street City Farm   Dig it! - Garden Packs Donations of $50 (Brisbane only)  will receive a garden pack of their choice, including one option of a kiddies toy set. Get your garden going! Start with making healthy soil You get to choose: Soil Starter Pack - Compost, Enactivate, Perlite, Permiculite, Soil pH tester Kit, Punnets Seed Raising Start - Compost, Potting mix, Perlite, Permiculite, Punnets Kiddies Tool Set - Hand trowel, Fork, Squirt Bottle, Gloves, Bindi Weeder Workshops on Permaculture and Sustainable Living   Donations of $100 or $200 (Brisbane only) will receive a half day or full day workshop of their choice. In addition to their Permaculture Design Course, NSCF offers an exciting range of smaller sustainable living workshops, often on Saturdays.   Get passionate about establishing your own nutritious food garden, using sustainable building products, saving money, developing new skills and discovering old ones. New workshops are frequently being added, so keep an eye on their offering by ‘Liking’ us on Facebook or signing up to our monthly eNews. Apart from our regular workshop offering, we also offer the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Series of workshops. These workshops are stand-alone modules offered from the currently running Permaculture Design Certificate. If you don’t have the time (or money) to complete a full PDC, these workshops provide a wonderful opportunity to learn the skills of a permaculture designer at your own pace. You will be buddied up with a PDC student and become a part of our learning community. Spaces fill up fast for these popular, informative and fun workshops. Design It! - Permaculture Design Course   Donations of $3000 (Brisbane only, but happy to support others around Australia interested in other PDCs, so talk to us if you're interstate) - we will reward you with a permaculture design course Join thousands around the world in understanding permaculture! These programs give you knowledge and skills for designing productive gardens and properties, growing your own food, applying appropriate technologies, using resources wisely, designing animal and plant systems to minimise your workload, rebuilding community values, and generally reducing your impact on our precious environment.     Copyright © 2014 Energetic Communities, All rights reserved. Hi This is the general update list for Energetic Communities Our mailing address is: Energetic Communities Hampson St Kelvin Grove, Ql 4059 Australia Add us to your address book unsubscribe - Get me outa here!

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BooCrew

Mahatma Gandhi's seven deadly sins:
wealth without work;
pleasure without conscience;
science without humanity;
knowledge without character;
politics without principle;
commerce without morality;
worship without sacrifice.