Mount Alexander Sustainability Group is celebrating 20 years of climate action in 2026 and invites the community to join them in celebrating the achievements of the last two decades at a number of community events.
The festivities kicked off on October 25 with a film fundraiser screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) at the Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal.
Next Thursday November 12 join MASG for a discussion with local author Ian McBurney about his new book Don’t Panic: Live the good life for planet, people and place at Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine.
McBurney is an ecological sustainability practitioner who has inspired and enabled tens of thousands in business, manufacturing, government, schools and communities to move towards a better future.
He ran consulting business Live ecoLogical and cofounded the Bendigo Sustainability Group, Synergize Co-working Hub, bHive sharing economy Cooperative and the Greater Bendigo Climate Collaboration.
Feeling overwhelmed about the state of the planet and society? Feeling powerless to help? McBurney’s new book is a choose your own adventure guide to living the good life through transport, energy, stuff, nature, food and money. Find out how to take the next best steps at your pace, in your time, with your headspace, to your budget, at your stage of life, with your skills and passions, and in your local place. Don’t Panic! Create a comfy home and a life connected to planet, people and local place. This is living the good life! Get stuck in.
The discussion will follow a brief AGM where you can learn about MASG’s work over the last 12 months and take the opportunity to be involved in its bright future.
The celebrations will be capped off with a massive community gathering to celebrate 20 Years of Climate Action at Lot19 on November 29.
The talk will begin at 7pm. To register for the November 12 event visit www.masg.org.au/20-years/