Welcome to Pigs Will Fly

The Network For Good has published some key trends they’ve learnt from the Haiti relief giving…info for all types of NonProfits.

About The Network For Good

This organisation, supported by several large American corporations, has created a secure, convenient, online donation system – so it’s like shopping online. It is apparently ’simple and affordable for all NonProfits, of any size, to recruit donors and volunteers via the Internet’.

What Has Been Learnt From Haiti

“In the wake of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, donors relied on the Internet to channel funds quickly to first-responder organizations who mobilized after humanitarian disasters. Network for Good processed $5.3 million in donations to more than 140 U.S. public charities providing emergency response

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The Kinglake Action Network & Development Organisation, KANDO – PWF can relate to this acronym! – is running a water Expo this weekend at trhe Kinglake Temporary Village Community Centre. It’s FREE.

RSVP Please

Everyone is welcome but could you either ring or email Mary, 0402 181 513 – info@murrindindiclimatenetwork.org.au

What’s On Saturday 13 March

CLOSE TO HOME
Another Sustainable Building Workshop run by the Murrindindi Climate Network and the Moreland Energy Foundation with support from Sustainability Victoria. Click here for presentations.

What’s On Sunday 13 March

THE BIG PICTURE
Groundwater Management in the Kinglake Ranges. There is a large pool of experience here and those leading the Panel Discussion are:
Simon Cowan – Manager of Groundwater & Unregulated Systems Goulburn …

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A Brisbane-based company Spaceout.com.au, is giving seniors and retirees a new revenue stream – from their own backyards!

Seniors who own their home can now make use of new online services to help them rent out unused space to people seeking storage space. They can earn a steady passive income to help supplement their superannuation or pensions whilst they enjoy their retirement.

Spaceout Managing Director, Damon Russell, says

“We have been inundated with enquiries from Aussie Seniors nationwide looking to rent out their spare space. “Grey Nomads” (seniors that travel in Caravans or Motorhomes) have been particularly active on the site. They are either offering their spare or vacant space for people to store their possessions or are looking for short

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Elizabeth is a ‘grey nomad widow’. She’s in good shape – no illnesses! – and she lives in Frankston, Victoria.

Elizabeth is writing a novel and planning lots of travelling. She has recently returned from India which she thoroughly enjoyed. She’s also planning an African safari trip at the end of this year.

Elizabeth and her husband had a ‘fifth wheeler’ which, when he died, she traded in for her Winnebago motorhome. Elizabeth drove it up to Kyogle last year with her two little Tonkinese cats, Mia and Silky, who are well behaved and travel well. She has a bicycle that she can put on the back of the vehicle and on this trip she stayed mostly …

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If you’re in Melbourne on the weekend of March 20-21, 2010, Transition Town Maroondah invites you to attend a workshop about creating a local sustainable community beyond oil dependency.

Transition Town Maroondah (TTM) is a grassroots initiative working to make the transition from a fossil-fuel based community to a low carbon one that is more self reliant.

Transition Town Workshop Details

You are invited to come and explore together how life in our communities can be healthier, more connected, more satisfying, and more fun, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and becoming less dependent on our diminishing oil supplies.

You will:

• see the official Transition Town movie
• find out what action can be taken
• learn useful skills
• meet others
• share ideas

Venue East Ringwood Community hall, behind Railway Ave …

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