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Bulk Junk Collection

8/4/2014

From October 13, 2014.
This year the Bulk pick up will happen over 2 weeks, starting with the older part of Banksia Grove (the Mariginiup side) happening from Oct 13, and the other part from Oct 20.

Check the City of Wanneroo website for more info. www.wanneroo.wa.gov.au

GREEN WASTE COLLECTION

2/17/2014

Green Waste Collection date for 2014 is the week commencing
Monday 12 May.
So try to have your Green Waste out on the verge in 1m lengths by then.

Cheers Environment review

8/7/2013

At Cheers Neighbours Network in Banksia Grove, we do care a lot about the natural environment, but just like every other “Joe and Joanne Citizen” out there, we feel powerless to do much about it. When it comes to sustainability, we are profoundly concerned about water, peak fossil-fuels, oceanic titration and over-trawling, economic un-sustainability, Gospel justice and stewardship, as well as environmental limits.

It seems that the Law is too micro-focussed to help, Business & Economics are too cannibalistic to help, and Politics just isn’t focussed enough to help. So I am a pessimist about humans’ ability to change before it is too late.

But even so, here’s what we do as a matter of integrity.

We enlist doubters of climate change (rather than argue) on the common grounds of conservation. Some may disagree that the climate is warming, but they agree that we can’t keep consuming fossil fuels at this rate. After this point, the rest is detail.
Theologically (Cheers works from a Christian base) we suspect this earth (of time and space) may yet also be part of the new heaven and earth, or at least play a part in God’s plans for quite some time beyond its apparent use-by date.
We advocate:
- We verbally explain the importance of using this current energy frenzy to invent and roll-out sustainable energy infrastructure. We promote solutions when we see them, across our neighborhood e-network, (Like www.wancrew.org, camp topics like natural wonders, the electric car, energy efficient housing.) We showed An Inconvenient Truth, and Who killed the Electric Car, Storyofstuff.com, Copenhagen 15
- We call on business leaders to get with Dick Smith and figure out how to do the economy sustainably.
- Politically, we know personally our Federal, State, and Local representatives, and we encourage them to work for legislation and infrastructure: a green economy; waste management; alternative energy research-development-promotion-installation; fossil fuel dependancy; ocean care; justice for the most vulnerable in all this.
  - We are fully aware that it will cost us dollars and a lowering of our inflated “standard of living.”
  - We consider that we must have serious legislation with serious sanctions, rather than leave the future to “economic forces” which are essentially cannibalistic.
We harangued our local property developers to install mandatory caveats for energy-efficient building plans. We introduced them to the experts in energy efficient design. They did at least make their builders supply cheap energy-efficient house-plan options for prospective buyers.
We built our house along solar/energy efficient lines, and did it without paying more.
We installed 13 solar panels that pretty much run our house.
We dream of getting an air car or electric car for our own travel, but they are not yet available. We would pay a premium for them, as we did for the solar panels. It actually makes economic sense in the long run. Meanwhile…
We buy LPG and low-consumption cars.
We travel less by using Skype where possible, meeting locally rather than further afield, and using public transport when we can.
We support our local government’s initiatives to recycle waste.
We wash dishes, and recycle rubbish, rather than waste.
We volunteer through the local residents association, and one of us runs the environmental portfolio.
We plant trees on Tree Day, and pick up rubbish on Clean Up Australia Day in May
We learn about, and plant, indigenous medicinals and edibles at home and in local bush reserves.
We wear hand-me-down network clothes if we can rather than buying new.
We explain about Jesus to help people become Christians, and
We hope that, if we reach critical mass of trust in God, then God will heal the land.
We grow our own veges and chickens, and plant fruit trees in reach of pedestrians.
We buy local produce with a smaller carbon-footprint

So I’m feeling a bit better anyway, about our overall impact. If something is useful to you, feel free to ask me more about it. Probably our biggest story is our battle for energy efficient housing design.

Clean Up Australia Day in May 19

2/26/2013

We are registered for Clean Up Banksia Grove on Sunday MAY 19 (Not the March national date as it's usually too hot and a long weekend)
http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/bgrainc is where you can pre-register, or you can register on the day.

Meet at the Banksia Grove Centre from 9.30am to collect your bags and register. If you would like to be involved but can't make it on the day I can drop some bags around to you, if we each just did along our own street we could make a massive difference!

BG Residents Association Issues

4/3/2012

Here are some local concerns residents are asking about.
If you are likewise concerned, please add your comments / voice.

1. Post Box: A post box for BG residents, somewhere handy near the main flow for both sides of BG - say where the old sales office is? When the old one was removed, we kind of assumed there would be a replacement, so...

2. Toilets: We probably need them near the amphitheater in Discovery Park. (They are not impossible to look after, since we do have public toilets at Peridot oval.)

3. Big Hole at the north end of Viridian Dv. Residents are wondering why they have the Grand Canyon opening up before them, and what the longer term outlook is.

4. BGP support for CREW protecting the Gnangara mound. Can Banksia Grove Partnership (developers) give weight / are they giving weight to this good cause?

5. BG Shopping Center: When will the BG shopping center be built. First Carramar, now Ashby has leapfrogged us with their's going ahead. We need a fuel station (last stop before the country road).

6. CATRA Rumour: An idea has been floated about joining with CATRA (the Carramar Tapping Residents Association.) But there are reasons against this as well as for. Many ideas don't make it. So if this worries or excites you, let us know. This is your association.

Any other matters? Let us know.

CREW progress report

9/6/2010

progress has been made;

The Aboriginal healing site has been saved
The road planned through the conservation wetland is now being diverted
Rural land between Coogee Rd and Neaves will now remain special rural

This has only happened because residents made a stand. We have sent a clear and strong message that we care about the place we live in and we will stand up for our rights.

We still have three objectives to achieve and they are;

Stopping plans to establish the South Pinjar Industrial Estate (planned within the priority one public resource drinking area of the Gnangara Mound)
No urbanization on medium to high risk acid sulphate soils
Functional wildlife corridors be established between the lakes and what is now the pine plantations

Whats now?

Crew has been working solidly collecting signatures and informing the public on the hazard the proposed South Pinjar industrial estate will pose to Perth’s drinking water. This Thursday 9 September at 9.00am we will be presenting Ken Travis MLA with our latest petition of 5500 + signatures. Ken Travis will table this petition and talk in parliament for one hour discussing why this planned industrial estate should not proceed.

National tree-Planting Day: the Pod

6/23/2010

August 1st, 2010
- contact Christine
at bgranews@hotmail.com
or 9405 9939 or 0416 025 578

As part of Planet Ark National Tree Day.
http://treeday.planetark.org/

Gnangara water mound Petition

6/12/2010

Very Important
for more info go to www.wancrew.org
Find out what the State Government is planning for Perth’s drinking water

There is a huge industrial site being proposed for South Pinjar (where the pines have been felled along Neaves Rd), right next to Banksia Grove Wanneroo.

This industrial estate will sit on top of a Priority One Public Drinking Water resource area of the Gnangara Mound, exposing this pure source of drinking water which supplies Perth with 60% of its water to toxic pollution.

You can stop this Valuable Asset of the Perth People being degraded

According to the Government’s own document (the Industrial Land Strategy Perth & Peel 2009) a heavier class of industry than general industry will operate in this site, industry that requiresa one plus kilometer buffer from residential areas. Buffers are required by industry from residential areas whenthe amount of dust and/or, noise and/or odour they emit creates problems for people and/or when their emissions/discharges pose a health risk to the environment and/or residents.

Download the petition below.
www.wancrew.org

2010_05_28_petition_industrial_land_strategy_pinjar_south.doc
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CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY

2/8/2010

I have registered us for clean up day again on May 23 from 9am. We even have a web page http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/Banksia+Grove where you can register as a volunteer.

So mark it in your diaries and we would love to see as many people as possible get together to clean up Banksia Grove.

Even if you can't make it on the day you can still grab a bag and just clean up your street and together we can make a difference. We will put on a lunch again to thank all our fabulous volunteers.

Protest Industrial Development on water mound

2/8/2010

Saturday March 6th at 10am there is a legal rally protesting against the planned industrial development on the corner of Neaves rd and Old Yanchep. Meet at Bert Tongo Park (opposite the Wanneroo Council Chambers).

The comment period for the East Wanneroo Structure plan has finished
however teh Industrial Land Strategy document is open for comment until March 12th. I have a copy of teh book if you would like to read it for yourself or you can download it online - there are links to the document through www.wancrew.org