March against Mining
Saturday 1 May 2010
11am from Lower Queen Street, Auckland
More information here
Marchers setting off from Grey Lynn can visit The Little Grocer, 311 Richmond Road for free coffee and treats.
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The Wilton Street Community Garden recently completed construction of our new Community Composting Facility. Located in the garden at the top of Wilton Street, the facility consists of three large wooden bins designed to turn local organic waste into usable garden compost.
The bins are easily accessible and designed to be user friendly. Now we would love people to start using them – shops, households, offices, gardeners – anyone who has organic material currently going to ‘waste’. The bins are labelled 1,2 and 3, and only one will have the IN sign on the front at any time. This is the bin to tip your waste into, when this bin is full, the IN sign will be shifted to another bin.
The system is a trial so we would appreciate it if you would support this community facility and spread the word to others. We don’t want to encourage rats or the spread of weeds so please;
WE WELCOME
WE DON’T WANT
Anyone who has questions or requires a plastic bucket to transport scraps please contact Mandy. (Mandy.McMullin@xtra.co.nz)
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BRINGING IT TOGETHER:
What will it take to create a Just, Sustainable, and Fulfilling Future?
“You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world”.
Margaret Mead
The internationally acclaimed symposium “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream” is being presented in Grey Lynn for the first time, in partnership with Grey Lynn 2030.
We’ll look at our biggest challenges and opportunities today:
The Symposium will be led by experienced, local facilitators Carl Chenery, Maya Nova, Crea Land and Peta Joyce.
Details of the Symposium
When: Saturday, 8 May 12.30pm – 5:30pm. Afternoon tea will be provided by GreyLynn 2030.
Venue: Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland.
Cost: A Koha is invited
Registration: To register, please do so online here or email Pippa at Greylynn2030@gmail.com and provide names of those who will attend, email address and contact phone.
Find out more at http://awakeningthedreamer.org/
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| 9 April 2010 In This Issue:
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 There was a delightful mix of local creativity, enterprise, learning and entertainment on offer during the inaugural Grey Lynn 2030 Week. The overwhelming feedback we have received is that the Week should happen again as it was such a good way to highlight all the local happenings that are working towards our vision of a sustainable community. The Week was also a wonderful opportunity to discover new things and to start new initiatives such as the twilight market which we hope will become a regular event. Thank you to everyone who helped make the Week happen.
Will your networks like to know about Grey Lynn 2030 or enjoy reading this month’s community news? Please forward it on. |
| Grey Lynn 2030 Week Here are just some of the events from the Grey Lynn 2030 Week. More photos and updates from each day are on our website. Ooooby Berm Bomb Flashmob Tapped the Movie Grey Lynn 2030 and EcoMatters have been able to make a modest donation to Oxfam from the ticket sale proceeds. However, our supporters may wish to do more especially if you missed World Water Day on 22 March. Please consider making a donation online to the Oxfam Water Appeal or by calling 0800 400 666. The DVD can be rented from EcoMatters. More details about the movie are on our website. Art Studio Tours If you missed out but would like to take a future tour please contact Jan-Claire. Many thanks to all the artists involved. And to Nextbike for making available rental bikes for free. You can see more photos from the tour here. Also if you missed the Introduction to Meditation Classes at the Auckland Buddhist Centre there is the opportunity to join new classes starting in April. Urban Garden Tour Kelmarna Organic City Farm The Week provided an excellent opportunity to visit an urban oasis that has been tucked away on the boarder of Grey Lynn for almost 30 years. Adrian Roche, who shared his extensive knowledge on the tour, extends an invite to drop by anytime – even if the gate is shut (it is amazing how many locals have never been there). Thank you to Adrian and Kelmarna’s bee keeper Carol Downer. You can find Carol and Lynn at the GLFM each week selling their Grey Lynn honey. West Lynn Street Party & Twilight Market “There was a party going on around here last night. What a great evening it was! People were out in force on the streets of West Lynn enjoying the lovely autumn night. The Harvest car parking was taken over and turned into a street lounge. The bunting was up and the shops looked great.
The kids loved the Easter Egg hunt at the GL Neighbourhood Law Office Thanks, thanks for those who got involved and made this such a special community event.” Check out the video of the Street Party by Pascal and the official photos taken by Diya on Facebook. |
| Grey Lynn 2030 Monthly Meeting – Community Gardens |
| Wednesday 14th April 7.30pm at the Grey Lynn Community Centre |
We are delighted to have as our guest speaker this month Richard Main, project manager Gardens4Health. Find out about the benefits of community gardens and planting for health. The aim of the Gardens4Health programme is to make growing your own fruit and veg the normal thing to do. The programme is starting with community gardens in places like the Marae, schools, churches, public open spaces etc., so people can re-learn how to grow fresh veg – and enjoy eating cheap veggies. From that it is hoped they will go home and plant a few in their own back-yard We will also be hearing from from our local community gardens at St Columba, Wilton Street and Grey Lynn Presbyterian Church and Kelmarna Organic City Farm. All welcome. Entry by koha. |
| Grey Lynn Farmers Market |
| Sunday 9 – 12.30pm |
| The Grey Lynn Farmers’ Market is on this Sunday, 11th April at the Grey Lynn Community Centre.
Come along and get some fresh autumn produce, sample the market goodies, and treat yourself to some delicious pastries and a steaming cup of coffee. Why not make it a proper picnic while you’re there?
If you have any excess produce from your garden, drop it off at the Ooooby stall and they’ll display it for sale. Remember to bag and label it! See you there! Please bring your shopping bag. |
| Waste Away |
 The Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away group was on hand at the Street Party on 25th March, and, with the kind cooperation of the local businesses, ensured that there were plenty of recycling bins available on the street for party goers to dispose of their glass, plastic, paper and cans. Our stall also had a bokashi bin available for food waste – although we found most people enjoyed the fabulous food on offer so much that there wasn’t much in the way of scraps! There was a lot of interest in the information at our stall on worm farms and the bokashi system as well as our new t-shirts!
The Waste Away group is present at the Farmers Market each Sunday (except the last of the month) with information on worm farms and bokashi and you can also contact us via email for more information or to express interest in joining the group – greylynn2030wasteaway@gmail.com and on now also on Facebook |
| Local Government |
| Feedback on Local Boards |
| We have almost reached submission fatigue for the year but we did manage to get in our feedback on Auckland Transition Authority’s discussion document on Local Boards in the nick of time. You can read our submission here. |
| Wilton Street Community Garden |
| Walking tour of local henhouses |
 30 people met at the Wilton Street Community Garden on Saturday 27th March on the final day of the Grey Lynn 2030 Week for the hen tour led by Mandy from the Community Garden and Susie from Chickens at Home.
Altogether, we visited 5 henhouses – in Stanmore Road, Richmond Road, Browning Street and Sackville Street.
Thanks to the hosts, those who attended and especially the hens for making the event such a great success! You can check out more of the tour photos here. If you missed out and would like to go on any future tours please contact Susie. Grey Lynn Community Garden – find out more details here. ‘Growing Together’ every Sunday afternoon 4pm~6pm in Autumn. |
| Not only but also…. |
| BioBlitz: Finding Nature in the City
BioBlitz is a scientific race against time. It is educational. And it is heaps of fun! Everyone is welcome to participate. BioBlitz is a free event and is a rare opportunity to meet all sorts of scientists and experience the astonishing array of nature living in our city. Saturday 17 April, 10am – midnight
First Tuesday Sustainability Speakers Series Interested in living more sustainably? Then come along to the “First Tuesday” sustainability speakers series and hear from a stunning line-up of experts on environmental sustainability in the urban environment. This series aims to highlight the ways that people in the city can still have a positive impact on the environment. Where: The talks will be held at CCS Disability Action, 14 Erson Avenue, Royal Oak. |
| Roof Top Gardens |
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Hire things We recently found out about a website where you can hire what you need and hire out what you don’t need. A sustainable way to share resources. Plus discounts for community groups. Visit http://www.hirethings.co.nz/ |
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We have received overwhelming feedback that the inaugural Street Party & Twilight Market was a big success and a whole lot of fun. We really enjoyed decorating West Lynn to create a traffic calming people – space for the evening which provided the opportunity to have a great time at our local shopping area with neighbours and friends. The event was made possible with the enthusiastic support of local businesses, community groups and individuals who are all keen to see it happen again.
Our thanks go to:
Paul & Mira from Montery Coffee Lounge who provided groovy tunes by DJ Andy with cocktails by Hakanoa Handmade (a locally made ginger beer available at Monterey)
Susan Duckworth & team at Vanilla Ink
Mr H who was kept busy serving up his gourmet sausages from the West Lynn Organic Butcher
Dear Reader bookshop sponsors of the Phineas Phrog story telling
Malt Bar with DJ Ria from Base FM
SBF Hair Artists
Richmond Road Pharmacy
Richmond Road Medical Practice
Savour & Devour who were very generous with their free coffee and dessert samples
Raw Essentials who provided free samples for lucky pets
Monique & Jules at Dalston showed off their new winter range on the night with nibbles and wine (our beautiful bunting is also made with donated Dalston fabric)
The Wine Vault for the free wine tasting
Caravan Clothing the newest boutique in West Lynn
The team at Moa with a special mention to Julie for being one of the first West Lynners to support the idea of a street party
Havest Wholefoods and their suppliers Nature’s Gold chocolate , Pacific Harvest seaweeds, Kohu Road ice-cream, Nutz roasted nuts that were offering samples and tastings. Also Ceres Organics who provided free crackers and Revive free Frooze balls plus thanks to Amber for creating the Park(ing) picnic zone.
West Lynn Superette – their homemade samosas are available from the freezer
428 Richmond Road – mens clothing
The Little Grocer who brought their bbq along
B.E.E cleaning products
Hayjay’s Superette
Rosanna, Mind Body Institute, Zee Sharif Return to Form and all those operating from the villa at 412 Richmond Road
Neal’s superette
Tom’s Roast
Mamata Bakery
City Liquor Centre
Plus thanks to the community groups who supported the event:
Grey Lynn Neighbourhood Law Centre & Litaracy Aotearoa who held a bbq and raffle with proceeds going to the Child Cancer Foundation. Congratulations to Maxine Wooldridge who won the raffle and thanks to our local Countdown (Richmond Rd) for contributing the eggs for the kids Easter Egg hunt.
Living Streets Aotearoa thanks to Vinnie for organising the film of the party
Green Party with a stop mining petition
Wilton Street Community Garden was decorated for the evening
with the Gardeners holding a picnic
Oxfam Wellpark Walkers who raised $256 at the Street Party
Grey Lynn RSC who are keen for new members
Grey Lynn Community Centre - thank you to the Manager Tania Miller who made the tables available for the street stalls
Thanks to the Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away team who ensured that there were plenty of recycling bins available on the street for party goers to dispose of their glass, plastic, paper and cans. They also had a bokashi bin available for food waste – although they found most people enjoyed the fabulous food on offer so much that there wasn’t much in the way of scraps!
The Street Stalls you can also find at the Grey Lynn Farmers Market each Sunday:
Silwoods’s market veges & herbsA big thank you to Paul Dalton, GLFM Manager for coordinating the Twilight Market and single-handedly returning all the tables to the GL Community Centre.
You can check out a vid of Sam Benge who plays with the Longdrops and coordinated the music here.
Thanks to Sam and the musicians who performed:
The Longdrops
French Toast
The Ukeladies.
Thanks to all the volunteers who showed up to decorate West Lynn and help with cleaning up: Katie, Caroline, Barbara, Sharon, Dani, Sam, Olwyn, Amber, Neha, Paul S, Peter Claire, Paul D and the Grey Lynn 2030 Wasters
Diya Welland for taking so many fab photos. More can be seen here
Pascal for his vid of the Street Party
Cat Charm designer of the poster for both the Street Party and the Grey Lynn 2030 Week
Martin Leach from Ponsonby News who supported the event by publishing the Street Party poster for free
Hopefully that’s covers everyone from our lovely commmunity who helped make the West Lynn Street Party & Twilight Market happen but let me know if I’ve missed anyone.
Pippa Coom, Street Party organiser for the Grey Lynn 2030 Steering Committee
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We were very fortunate that EcoMatters Environmental Trust, Oxfam and TAPAC all came on board at late notice to ensure were were able to screen Tapped on World Water Day. As an introduction to the movie, Katherine Mason from Oxfam gave a moving presentation about Rosita and her family in East Timor whose lives have been transformed through the 
introduction of a clean, regular water supply made possible from donations to Oxfam’s Water for survival programme.
Grey Lynn 2030 and EcoMatters have been able to make a modest donation to Oxfam from the ticket sale proceeds. However, our supporters may wish to do more especially if you missed World Water Day on 22 March. Please consider making a donation online to the Oxfam Water Appeal or by calling 0800 400 666.
Tapped the movie was exceedingly thought provoking, resulting in many of the movie goers wondering what we can follow up with locally to get the message across that bottled water is damaging to the environment (from production through to disposal) and individual health, and except in an emergency completely unnecessary. A few facts from the movie that may be of interest:
Tapped can be rented from EcoMatters. Check out the preview here. Find Tapped on Facebook with regular updates from the movie’s director Stephanie Soechtig.
The Story of Bottled Water is also worth sharing around to get the message out that the best thing we can do immediately is to stop buying bottled water.
Grey Lynn 2030 is considering how we are going to act locally to achieve a dream of a bottle water-free NZ starting with our community. For example what about we work to install public water fountains (the village pump!) so that we can refill bottles bought locally? If you are interested in getting involved with the Grey Lynn 2030 water group please email greylynn2030@gmail.com.
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The guerilla gardening event that unofficially kicked off Grey Lynn 2030 Week. A flashmob (ie a group who responded to the call to just turn up) transformed a weedy new section of berm on Richmond Road into a handsome vegetable garden that continues to be tended. A small symbolic act of gardening to raise awareness about land use, local food production and Grey Lynn 2030′s intention to plant local berms with fruit trees and bee friendly flowers. 
We were very fortunate that EcoMatters Environmental Trust, Oxfam and TAPAC all came on board at late notice to ensure were were able to screen Tapped on World Water Day. As an introduction to the movie, Katherine Mason from Oxfam gave a moving presentation about Rosita and her family in East Timor whose lives have been transformed through the introduction of a clean, regular water supply made possible from donations to Oxfam’s Water for survival programme.
What a treat to visit the studios of our many talented local artists on two days during the Week. We were generously invited into their work places to see firsthand an impressive range of creative styles.
Thanks to GLFM supporter and NZ Gardener editor, Lynda Hallinan opening up her urban garden to a large group during the Week we raised $110 koha. This money will be put towards future berm planting and community gardens.
Suzanne posted her thoughts the next day:
Bring along the kids to Phineas Phrogg’s Storytime Show at 10.30am in the Oval Rom. It’s only $3 per child ($2 for members)!
All the owners were very gracious in giving their time and answering our many questions. It was very interesting to see the variety of hens and setups that people had in their backyards. Many were homemade and quite informal, the hens all looked happy and healthy and the owners reported that they had no problems with rats, cats or dogs.
It was lovely walking around the neighbourhood together with people having time to enjoy the day and chat to each other while walking between hen stops..
There’s an innovative new community gardening venture being set up in Auckland. It aims to establish communal gardens on the rooftops of buildings in the central city so that people who live and work there can connect with each other to nurture some green space and grow their own fresh, healthy produce. They’re keen to hear from anyone who is interested in what they’re doing, and especially people with experience in garden design, community gardening and organic gardening. If you’re interested in finding out more about the venture, or if you know of a building that you think would benefit from a rooftop garden, contact Emily Harris at Harris.Emily@yahoo.com.
