What can be done at the household and industry level to move towards zero waste?

Modern consumer society produces huge amounts of non-recyclable, non-renewable waste. However, with a few simple adjustments your lifestyle, it is possible to significantly reduce your ecological footprint. This exciting talk will encourage you take a journey towards a waste free existence.

Panel Facilitated by Margaret Steadman.

Panel Members:

• Oberon Carter - Oberon works in threatened species conservation by day. He and his family have been living close to waste-free for over a year. He is also president of Permaculture Tasmania and a budding actor. 

• Thomas Crawford - Thomas recently completed his honours on food waste at UTAS and is now starting a food waste composting pilot project with Source Community Wholefoods Cooperative and Hobart City Farm. Thomas is a super passionate, young zero waster.

• Lissa Villeneuve - Lissa is passionate about waste reduction.  She runs numerous events (including our own Sustainable Living Festival), all with minimal footprint.  Lissa will share her strategies for only putting your bins out 1-2 times a year. 

• Alban Johnson - Alban, owner of Eumarrah, is passionate about reducing the amount of single use packaging in food production and retail and will share his tips for how to reduce your own reliance on food packaging. 

• Alderman Bill Harvey - Bill is an Alderman on the Hobart City Council and current board member of Resource Work Cooperative. Bill is especially interested in strategies to eliminate plastic pollution and achieving the council target of zero waste to landfill by 2030.

Tasmanians will be well acquainted with the delightfully talented Sands Family Circus.  Also performing at 12.30pm Saturday.

From the smallest to the tallest, these kids and their parents have some amazing tricks, flips and flops to share at the Festival.

Mud, mud, glorious mud...there's nothing quite like it for keeping the kids entertained.

You can explore natural building techniques with Galen and Stefan, while the others play with clay.

Strong leadership is essential for implementing change. We will explore what makes a good leaders and the importance of supporters in creating those leaders.

• Rodney Croome is a long time advocate for LGBTI equality and was named Tasmanian Australian of the Year in 2015.

• Kym Goodes' (TASCOSS) focus is on working towards a fairer and more equitable Tasmania through collaboration and partnerships between the social services sector, business, communities and government. Her major focus is on ensuring all Tasmanians have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of life, economic, social and political.

• Greg Irons (Director, Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary) lives to protect Tasmania’s unique wildlife. He firmly believes small changes make a big difference, and inspires others to make change happen.

• Damian Richmond (Bank Australia) works with a variety of social, community and environmental customers within Bank Australia. With a current focus on assisting environmental groups and the banks growth within the environmental sector.

• Simon Fishwick (University of Tasmania) had more than 20 years professional experience as a HR professional, manager and consultant prior to commencing a full-time academic role at the University of Tasmania in 2001. His expertise is in strategic Human Resourcing and leadership with a particular interest in effective implementation. 

Tasmanian based jazz and blues musician Mangus brings his growling vocals and boisterous National Guitar back to SLF2016, joined by special guest the soulful American Jazz vocalist Katy Raucher.

Indigenous foods have always been a part of our cultural diet.  

Now we have interest in our foods from all over the word. True sustainable food growing and gathering has to be managed by the understanding of the source of this food.

Margaret is synonymous with Simple Sourdough around Hobart. Over the years she has taught hundreds of people to bake delicious bread.

Bring a clean jar along to take some of her famed “fern tree” starter home.

Learn how to make simple, nutritious & delicious ferments in your own home!

We’ve designed this practical, hands-on learning experience just for you, showing you how to make:

• Tempeh (soybeans inoculated and fermented with rhizopus spores),
• Sauerkraut and kim chi (both wild ferments based on salt and cabbage),
• Pickles (with vegetables),
• Country wine (using seasonal fruits),
• Sourdough bread, and
• Yoghurt.

Read all course info and register today here: http://goodlifepermaculture.com.au/event/fermentation-fest-2/

The Tassievore Challenge turns 5 this year, and we're handing over the reins to you!! 

In exchange for a delicious free lunch, we'd love to borrow your brains for an hour and hear about what you want from the Tassievore Eat Local Challenge in 2017. This will help us to plan for next year - your wish is our command!

If you can join us, from midday on Thursday December 15th, please RSVP to [email protected] so that we can know how much to cook :-)

If you can't attend in person, but would like to be involved, please email us with your phone number and we'll call you in the coming fortnight to get your ideas and input. We'll even post you a tasty little gift to say thanks!! 

We hope to see you there!!

the Tassievore team