Mount Alexander Sustainability Group
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‘Electrify Loddon Mallee – Power Together’ officially launched
An ambitious new project aimed at encouraging central Victorians to ‘electrify’ their homes was officially launched at Castlemaine Community House on Wednesday. The ‘Electrify Loddon Mallee Project’, backed with $110,000 from the state government, will support Mount Alexander Sustainability Group and Bendigo Sustainability Group to work with councils and groups across the region to accelerate…
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MASG calls for new members
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group Inc is holding a membership drive this month and invites community members to join the fold and help support its sustainability work. MASG members will be visiting the Castlemaine Farmers Market at the Camp Reserve each Wednesday and will hold an information stall at Wesley Hill Market this Saturday June 14.…
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GROW festival exceeds expectations
A crowd of more than 560 people attended the GROW Festival of Regenerative Food and Farming at Kyneton Racecourse last month. The inaugural one-day conference and field day was a community project by Macedon Ranges Regenerative Farmers, part of the not-for-profit Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group. The organisers aim was to bring people together to achieve…
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Helpers wanted
Meet new friends, wash dishes, reduce landfill – a winning combination. Mount Alexander Sustainability Group and the Taradale Mineral Springs Festival will use the Wash Against Waste Trailer to achieve this. The use of this trailer at the festival stops large quantities of takeaway food containers, drink cups and cutlery going to landfill so fewer…
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Healthy Soils seeks farmers
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group’s Healthy Soils team is seeking to assist commercial farmers with soil issues within a 50-60km radius from Castlemaine. The Healthy Soils project offers the opportunity for 20 participating farms to receive free soil constraint assessments and soil testing, as well as assistance with developing a soil health management and monitoring plan.…
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VICTORIAN FIRST FOR WASTE
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group has secured DON Smallgoods in Castlemaine as the development site of a proposed multi-million dollar bioenergy facility. The planned project represents the first community led integrated waste-to-clean-energy initiative of its kind in Victoria.Confirming support, DON Smallgoods signed a term sheet covering energy off-take, waste supply and land to the north of…
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Podcast goes global
Saltgrass, a Castlemaine sustainability podcast proudly supported by Mount Alexander Sustainability Group and MAINfm 94.9, has gone global! The podcast was recently picked up and highlighted by the New York Times when it ran a list of five environment podcasts to listen to on Earth Day. Saltgrass is the brainchild of MASG team member and long-time MAINfm presenter…
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Carbon neutral plan for council
Mount Alexander Shire Council has adopted a detailed plan outlining the path it now intends to follow to achieve zero net carbon emissions for its operations by 2025. Local councillors last week unanimously voted in favour of adopting the new Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality 2020-2025 with Cr John Nieman moving the motion in favour and…
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Rebates slash the cost of solar
Benjamin Franklin famously said that “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. Well, to that, I reckon we can add “electricity bills keep rising”, a point that’s increasingly top of mind as so many of us spend more time at home with the resulting increase in power bills.…
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Bioenergy plant plan for Castlemaine
Hopes to build a Castlemaine bioenergy plant using waste product generated at Don KR, in a bid to drive down greenhouse gas emissions while generating clean power, have received a significant boost with the proposal collecting a national innovation award in recent days. Driving the vision for the past four years, the Mount Alexander Sustainability…