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Summer/Autumn 2012

a ... Paul Hawken's recent tour of Oz, left Vox with one resounding ahhh ha! Retrofitting for sustainability is the most cost effective and eco-beneficial contributions that can happen. He spoke eloquently of the one way graph, southward, between Capital Expense and Operating Expense. Mindbogling figures! Which translates inversely with climate and ecology benefit. Based on personal & inspiring experience, Vox recommends ...

Do double glazing, underflooring, draft eliminating ... you name it, save money and save the Earth ... and they're truly fabulous folks to work with ... 'specially Daniel, the brains behind the outfit.

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B ... Other excellent Summer/Autumn news ...

  • The Vox Bandicoot theatre company is planning a special year of our finest show … "A Little Bush Magic" ... the great big celebration of nature for little people ... and the littlies in us all.
C ... Vox Bandicoot's environmental Theatre In Education ... first in Australia, still unique in the world ... has been experienced by hundreds of thousands in schools, communities and full-house seasons at both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival ... ...

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Vox shows will delight your students or local community with optimism, mirth and meaning!   read more

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quote ... the Vox Bandicoot Environmental Managment System training is the most innovative and comprehensive we’ve seen in the world.

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Habitat and Species

The Backbone 2 Bio LInks ... a locally shaped, viral, person 2 person, community education and advocacy initiative ... for native species, habitats & their local people. Together with the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority and our much admired colleagues at Live Ecological, we've created a purpose and process driven education for action and change program known as Cascade ...

Sustainability Street Approach

Three new municipal areas have emerging SSA programs ... City of Monash, Mornington Peninsula Shire and Muswellbrook Shire in the Upper Hunter Valley. These join the hundreds of communities around Australia.

A collaboration with bankmecu will see the new manual ... "The Shortcut to Sustainability Street; DIY" made available to its membership.

Speaking and MC engagments

Frank Ryan has been booked for a number of events throughout Victoria. He was described by the University of Technology Sydney, as the MC on Steroids ... check out a recent MC job in City of Hume ... the folks who put the Hume into human. It was for the launch of their magnificnet transport strategy, put together by our ol' mate, the legendary Janet Rice! http://humeweekly.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Best Little Planet In Town

A solid, up beat and life changing presentation in the Al Gore genre. There is just so much good work and so many exciting possibilities out there. We can just sit around and let the future happen, or we can take steps to shape it, from today.

Environmental Education Shop

During 2012, the best of what Vox Bandicoot has written will be e-published for downlaod by donation. Includes "Planet Water", which was used as the core of the Victorian Government's water education curriculum, "Clockwork", a downloadable theatre script for teachers, park range and interpretation professionals interested in crating love and undersanding for habitats and threatened species … and lastly, the full Vox theatre repetoir will be up there and usable by whomever.

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Workplace Training and Development. SOSee: Sustainable Opportunities & Solutions: economic & environmental. Glossy policies and documents are meaningless without a supportive workplace culture - protecting the environment is everybody’s job - not just the environment deartment’s. Moreover, the rewards are both ecological and economic. Let’s face it, No Ecology - No Economy: No Planet - No Profit!
Community Education & Development. Sustainability Street - It’s A Village Out There … building better relationships with each other and with all other species, are the greatest challenges of human history … Sustainability Street ... a new reason to be neighbours. Over 200 local communities or Sustainability Street Villages have emerged across Australia and overseas.
Sustainability Live: Theatre … theatre is one of humanity’s most resilient means of communication. A profound way to explore meaning. It has served our species well throughout history … to transfer society’s most important stories, ideas, values, norms, objectives and understandings. The amazing new technologies of the information age have their place, however ... the show lives on ...
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Sustainable Streams Programs created by Vox have encouraged locals to become active, passionate protectors of local waterways. Community Streams, Business Streams and StreetWatch provide tools for people to seriously advocate for the clean, green future of our neighbourhood creeks and rivers ... and so … the oceans of the world… Business streams features the Thumbs Up the Platyous Awards!

Strategic Sustainability ... Consulting, Writing/Editing, Solutions and Imagineering - includes our “cut through” advice and consulting service to the media, advertising, communication and marketing industries. “We can not solve the problem using the mindset which created it” - Einstein. Clearly, pays to be “on-message”
Essays, causes, ideas, opinions, articles, resources, links and downloads - topics include No Nukes is Good Nukes, Cool arguments against hot headed Climate Skeptics, The History of the Earth in Two Minutes, Environmental Education: Post the Bushfires ... as well as links, resources and free downloads ... visit Live Ecological, Cool Melbourne or refer to the SustainaClopedia ... and more

 

CarbonOpoly ...

Play Like You Own The Planet

CarbonOpoly is a visceral, real time and deeply instructive and immersive simulation and training tool. It enables preparation and readiness for the imminent ETS. Not only educational but hugely enjoyable. Learn ... and laugh ... and geddit forever more. See the pdf.

“If only we had known about environmental costs sixty years ago when chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were invented. Hazel Henderson estimates that the true cost of one CFC aerosol can – factoring in ozone layer damage, cancer rates, etc – would be about $12,000. That might have given both its designers & consumers pause.”