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Stories 15/09/2006 - The next SomerVille Sunday will be on Sunday 1st October starting at 10am. We will celebrate committing to purchase lots! Feedback on the draft Building Guidelines, draft By-Laws and draft Governance is also invited. 24/08/2006 - A Perth Urban Ecovillage survey has been released by Greenedge Projects to gauge the amount of interest in such a project. So have your say by completing the survey! 24/08/2006 - The August edition of "SomerVille Scoop" is now available for you to view or download. 16/08/2006 - Brendan McKeague will facilitate "The Art and Heart of Creative Conflict" workshop again on Wednesday 27th September 2006 from 9am – 4.30pm at "A Place to Just Be", 4a Preston Point Rd, East Fremantle. The cost is $165 (inc GST) or pay what you can afford. This is the same workshop Brendan facilitated at SomerVille on the 25th June 2006 and it is highly recommended. Register by September 15th with Brendan on (08) 9244 8090 or mobile 0429 448 090 or email Brendan. 16/08/2006 - The next SomerVille Sunday will be a SomerVille Saturday on September 2nd 2006. Come and rejoice in each others company and celebrate our wins. Join us at 1pm for a 1.30pm start for an afternoon of celebration followed by an Asian theme dinner. Wear your best Bali sarong or shirt or any Asian outfit you have hidden in the back of your wardrobe and bring your favourite Asian dish to share for dinner (Thai, Indian, Japanese, Chinese etc). The labyrinth will be finished so part of the celebration will take place there. Paul M will also have a bonfire going to keep us warm! 07/08/2006 - A Building Guidelines Feedback Day has been scheduled on Saturday 19th August from 10am. The current status and feedback received so far will be presented and there will be time to discuss any areas of contention. If you intend to participate, please download and read the Draft Building Guidelines and email me if you will be attending on the day. 05/08/2006 - A Young Adults meeting and barbecue will take place on Saturday the 12 August 2006 from 2:30pm to about 8:30pm at Charcoal Cottage at SomerVille . The meeting will focus on 18 to 35 year olds interested in moving to SomerVille Ecovillage™ . An agenda and background reading from the recent brainstorming night are available. Please bring a plate of food / barbecue supplies drinks etc to share for dinner. 01/08/2006 - Background reading in preparation for the August SomerVille Sunday and the Agenda are now available on the website. 28/07/2006 - The July edition of "SomerVille Scoop" is now available for you to view or download. 24/07/2006 - The Next SomerVille Sunday is on the 6th August 2006 at 10am. Project updates will take place in the morning, the draft Building Guidelines should be available and the findings from the June SomerVille Sunday (“What will happen when we are there?”) will also be shared. It is now 6 months since we had our first Sociocratic election of Elders so it is time to repeat the process. Come and hear a report from our inaugural Elders regarding the last 6 months and participate in this truly inspiring process. 28/06/2006 - The June edition of "SomerVille Scoop" is now available for you to view or download. 23/06/2006 - On Wednesday 28th June 2006 at 7pm, there will be a free information night for entrepreneurs passionate about evolving businesses at SomerVille . The venue is Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den in The Brisbane Hotel Perth. Please register for the information night or download a detailed information pack. Contact Bart Curnow on 0419 334 049 for more information. 20/06/2006 - The Next SomerVille Sunday is on the 2nd July 2006 at 10am. There will be a presentation by John Talbott about Findhorn, Ecovillage updates from the Core Groups, a tree planting ceremony in the centre of the labyrinth and an activity for the children. 08/06/2006 - For parties interested in the proposed Health and Wellbeing Centre at SomerVille , there will be a free opportunity to share and network on Saturday 17th June at the Yellow Shed from 1pm to 5pm. Please register by 13th June if you are planning to attend. 08/06/2006 - "The Art and Heart of Creative Conflict" workshop with Brendan McKeague will take place at the Yellow Shed on Sunday 25th June. Please register if you are planning to attend. 30/05/2006 - Ecovillage Economics Three Day Workshops are now being offered in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast in July. 24/05/2006 - The May edition of "SomerVille Scoop" is now available for you to view or download. 22/05/2006 - The next SomerVille Sunday will be on 4th June when we will continue to evolve Governance. 11/05/2006 - Free Ecovillage Economics Evening Seminars are now being offered in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast in May/June. 09/05/2006 - The
latest Project Update is now available. 04/05/2006 - Don't miss the Next SomerVille Sunday on the 7th May 2006! We will be providing updates from the core groups and award winning mortgage broker Linley Morris from Opening Doors will give a presentation on finance options. 04/05/2006 - Lot selections for the second group have been confirmed and the third group (priorities 18 to 26) have until 12th May to make their decision. 28/04/2006 - The April edition of "SomerVille Scoop" is now available for you to view or download. 19/04/2006 - Lot selection information has now been provided in the Ecocom Members only section. The first group (priorities 1 to 8) have until 24th April to make their decision. 29/03/2006 - The March edition of "SomerVille Scoop" is now available for you to view or download. 29/03/2006 - It's official! The Shire of Mundaring at their full Council Meeting on the 28th of March 2006 voted in favour of the SomerVille Ecovillage™ proposal. This confirms we have obtained formal approval by Shire. 21/03/2006 - The Festival of the Trees takes place this Saturday 25th March from 10am to 4pm at St. Barbe Grove, on the corner of Stirling Crescent and Amherst Rd in Hazelmere. SomerVille Ecovillage™ will have a stand so come along and help out or say hello on the day! 20/03/2006 - Come and help us celebrate rezoning permission from the Shire of Mundaring on the 2nd of April. Compose a poem or song about the journey so far! We will also discuss the final lot selections and create a mural to mark this key milestone. Kadjininy Enterprises - Baladong Cultural Tours who provide talks, bush walks, cultural discussions, healing and sharing of bush knowledge will be joining us. 08/03/2006 - The latest project update is now available. Ecocom members can download a printable PDF version.
04/03/2006 - Accommodation in Chidlow
is now available on a short term or long term basis. There are two
rooms, one with two single beds, and one with a double bed (this will
only be available some weekends). The house is only 10 minutes walk from
Lake Leschenaultia and 5 minutes walk from the shops. It is a 2 story, 5
bedroom house with 2 living spaces, a huge kitchen and fantastic balcony
that runs the length of the house. A wireless broadband internet
connection is available. For further information, please
contact me. 11/02/2006 - Congratulations to our newly elected Community Elders, Paul Moes & Mike Fuller who will serve for the next 6 months. We used the Sociocratic Election process on Sunday the 5th February and this was a roaring success. The positions have no agenda, no formal monthly meeting and no defined outcomes. Instead it is a position of guidance and service to those that ask for it. Well done Paul and Mike! 02/02/2006 - The Agenda for this SomerVille Sunday on 5th February is now available for download. Have you done your background reading yet? Please do so to get the best out of our meeting process. See you there! 01/02/2006 - The Background Reading for the first SomerVille Sunday of the year this Sunday the 5th February 2006 is now available for you to download. Please take the time to read it and help us to get the best out of our meeting process. We hope to see you there! 30/01/2006 - The January edition of the "SomerVille Scoop" newsletter is now available. Information about contributing to the newsletter is also available. Contributions should be sent to me. 09/01/2006 - The SomerVille School Farm is seeking a wide variety of garden tools including wheel barrows, watering cans, hoes, spades, shovels, troughs, garden forks, hammers, saws, seed trays and so on. The goal of the SomerVille School Farm is to offer a dynamic learning environment where motor skills, social skills, emotional skills and cognitive skills are developed through interaction and emotional engagement with the natural environment. Through hands on work children are given the opportunity to experience the many facets of farming life as well as explore natural cycles. This offers children an insight into the food chain from the stable right through to the table. For more details, phone me on 08 92955581. Jörg Unseld. 01/01/2006 - A Draft Master Plan for the Chidlow Village Green has been developed by the Shire of Mundaring in consultation with local community groups and you are invited to review the plan and provide feedback by Friday 13th January 2006. Copies of the relevant documents are available for your information - Cover Sheet Information, Draft Master Plan, Feedback Form, About the Old Chidlow Hall. For more information, please contact Murielle Bodenham - Community Development Officer - tel. 08 92906705. 16/12/2005 - Come celebrate New Year’s Eve at SomerVille and participate in our Earth, Air, Fire and Water ceremony. Walk the mandala, place a new year’s resolution on the wind, give a thought to the flames, and place a flower on the dam. A charge of $5 per adult applies to cover equipment costs and you can pay on the night. Please bring food to share. Camping is Available. Arrive at 5:30 for 6:30 start. Please register before the 27th December. 9/12/2005 - Paul Moes has been appointed the new Land Care Coordinator and Paul will be the first point of contact for maintenance work, viewing of the land, organising subcontractors, camping bookings, WWOOFers, wood supplies and so on. Paul can be contacted on (08) 9572 1339. 06/12/2005 -
A pre presentation brief on the SomerVille Interim Governance model
has been prepared and you can now
download the document from the website. The document is 731 Kb so
please be patient. 22/11/2005 - Two part time positions, Admin Support Officer and Marketing Co-ordinator, have been identified as being essential in helping us move forward now that the SomerVille Ecovillage™ is gearing up and moving into the next phase. If you are interested in these paid positions, send us your CV and cover letter by 5pm, Wednesday 30th November. 21/11/2005 - The next SomerVille Sunday on 11th December 2005 at 10am will feature Jörg Unseld presenting his Farm School Program for the SomerVille Ecovillage™ and Steven Poole, Permaculture Consultant and Landscape Designer. This is your opportunity to learn from Steven’s experience and expertise first hand. There will also be an Update of current processes and procedures and discussion on the evolution of the SomerVille governance model. 08/11/2005 - We will be bottling part of this years vintage on Saturday the 3rd December 2005 starting at 8.30 am. We will finish up with a celebration and meal to share dinner - with of course SomerVille Red! Please bring food to share. 01/11/2005 - A SomerVille Sunday Community Catch Up will take place on 6th November 2005 at 10am. The day will include an overall project and budget update, core group updates, and presentations by Gina, Malcolm and Paul Moes on Sociocracy Research. 23/10/2005 - A Private Bushland Management Field Day will take place on Friday November 11th 2005. This will be a fantastic opportunity to find out about sustainable forestry management and to ask questions of the experts. The day will start at York (Wandoo) at 9.30am and then continue at SomerVille Ecovillage™ (Jarrah) at 1.30pm. Please let Monica Durcan know if you are planning to attend.
01/10/2005
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The third Annual
Ecocom
General Meeting will be held in the Yellow Shed on Saturday 29
October starting at 4pm. This will be followed by a celebration dinner
and a camp over.
Secretary and
Treasurer positions will be vacant and we invite you to send your
nominations to
Karen Moore
by 5pm Friday 21 29/09/2005 - There will be a SomerVille Sunday Community Catch Up on the 2nd October 2005, from 10.30 am at the Yellow Shed. Included will be updates from the core groups and an update on the loans status. 16/09/2005 - Just a quick reminder that the SomerVille Ecovillage™ Spring Festival is this weekend. The Festival kicks off at 10:00 am on Saturday with entertainment continuing on into Saturday evening. Camp over night and enjoy tours and workshops on Sunday. 31/08/2005 - It has been an eventful year for the SomerVille Ecovillage™ . To find out where things are at and what is happening check out the latest SomerVille Ecovillage™ Update. 13/08/2005 - "Hills suburbs are pick of the crop", according to the Western Australian Newspaper on Saturday August 13th. "Chidlow topped the year-on-year results with median house price growth of 58.1% to $284,500." Mount Helena also made it onto the top ten. Providers of loans to the SomerVille Ecovillage™ project can rest assured that their contributions are safe! 31/07/2005 - The next SomerVille Enterprise Day is on Sunday 14th August 2005 at 10am at the Yellow Shed. The updated SomerVille Economic and Enterprise Strategic Plan will be discussed and reviewed. The steps for getting enterprises happening at SomerVille will be outlined. The "Enterprise at SomerVille Information Pack" will be discussed and reviewed. We will hear about where enterprises and business ideas are at - and what is planned. Timings over the next couple of years will be looked at. Background reading will be issued prior to the event. Please register so that we have an idea of numbers for the day. 27/07/2005 - An Information Evening for SomerVille Fence-Sitters will take place on Friday 5th August from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at Home Base Centre - corner Harbourne Street and Salvado Road in Subiaco. As promised, this evening has been tailored to individuals and families who have been following the project but have not yet committed to living at SomerVille . Questions and doubts raised in the recent "Where do you Sit with SomerVille " survey will be answered and addressed. You can still benefit from a 10% to 15% discount off your lot price at SomerVille and be able to peg your own lot around the designated building envelope if you commit financially before 15th August 2005. Please register as there are limited seats for this session. 12/07/2005 - Help organise the SomerVille Spring Festival scheduled for Saturday 17th to Sunday 18th September. This is more than just a fair, this is a festival and a festival of festivals at that! We are planning a weekend of celebrating achievements, enjoying our community, sharing our passions, educating and inspiring others, bringing along friends and attracting new members to the community. But to do this we need your help NOW. I want to help! 12/07/2005 - Access from Ash Road to the SomerVille Ecovillage™ has been temporarily closed due to the amount of water that has soaked into the track. Please come to SomerVille via Coothallie Road. 04/07/2005 - Chidlow Community Church will be doing a presentation for us on Sunday the 17th July from 1 pm to 3 pm at the Yellow Shed. This is a reciprocal opportunity for them to share with us their vision and what they are planning for the future of Chidlow. Come along and learn about one of the most active groups in Chidlow and explore opportunities for working together in the future. Please RSVP if you are planning to come along. 04/07/2005 - A working bee is planned for Sunday 17th July at 10 am to improve facilities for children during the winter. We will move Nick and Annette's shed closer to the Yellow Shed to provide a dry place for children's activities. Please let us know if you are able to help by attending on the day or if you can donate materials such as sand or pavers to help provide a dry floor. 30/06/2005 - Calling all those architecturally inspired by embedded art, feature floors, angles, textures, pattern features, beautifully cut native timber, and stone walls. Meet the challenge of creating a wow factor for the new Community Building without building a cathedral. Email us your images and a sentence, of anything from a small feature to a whole building or landscape, to be included in an online gallery. 30/06/2005 - There will be a Building, Learning and Planning Day on Sunday July 3rd 2005 from 9 am at the Yellow Shed. Make some stilts, mix cement and lay bricks, wire up solar panels and measure their efficiency or restore a recumbent bike. Be informed on the Spring Fair, the Community Building, the Road Show and the CSA scheme. 27/06/2005 - ISTP is proud to present: Ecovillages: a global overview - Reflections on a world tour of 25 ecovillages - by Paul Antonelli - Doctoral student, ISTP, Murdoch University and founder of SomerVille Ecovillage™ , Chidlow. Venue is the Kim Beazley Lecture Theatre, Bush Court, Murdoch University at 5.30pm on Thursday 14th July 2005. RSVP if you wish to attend. Find out more about the world tour. 27/06/2005 - The citrus is back in season again in the orchard. Bring buckets, bring bags, and wear clothes with deep pockets! Take home oranges, mandarins, grapefruits and lemons! 24/06/2005 - A "SomerVille Ecovillage™ in the Media" web page has been created on this web site. If you have any newspaper clippings of SomerVille Ecovillage™ or know of any other media coverage that is not yet listed on the site, please let me know. Contributions will be catalogued, converted to electronic format, included on the web site and stored on CD for future reference. The material will also be displayed during our up and coming Road Show series. Any help is much appreciated. 22/06/2005 - Coothallie Road has recently been graded. Please use Coothallie Road in preference to the Ash Road access which has softened due to the high rainfall in May and June. 10/06/2005 - A Work Opportunities web page has been created for people to offer and find work opportunities. The work could be a task that you might normally find a tradesperson for, or you might be looking for a child minder. The idea is to help find reliable help in and around Chidlow although you could use the page even if you are not in Chidlow. If any additional categories are required, please let me know. 08/06/2005 - Another Enterprise Opportunity Exists For You this Saturday 11th June 2005 in the yellow shed starting at 10am. We have had feedback from many people who have found the feasibility process a bit daunting. So come along on Saturday with what ever your have done or not done, share your challenges, ask your questions, participate in active workgroups, take notes, pick our brains, fine tune your own skills, be supported in this opportunity to evolve your own feasibility study. 06/06/2005 - Where do you sit with SomerVille ? We are entering an new phase for the project and looking at running some information seminars over the next few months. If you have not yet stepped across the SomerVille line - we would love to know where you sit with SomerVille . This way we can better understand how we can support you in the future. Help us help you by taking a couple of minutes to complete the Where do you sit? 2 Minute Survey! 25/05/2005 - The new SomerVille Ecovillage™ Logo is finalised and now appears on the home page of this web site. We would like to thank Mike and Carol Fuller for designing the logo and their prize will be presented shortly. 25/05/2005 - A car share survey has been complied to establish the feasibility of a SomerVille car share business. We would appreciate 5 minutes of your time to complete the survey. Car-sharing is a system of private vehicle rental, with the business owning, maintaining and insuring all the vehicles. It works by members paying an annual membership fee, and then only paying for their vehicle use. It is cheaper than both conventional vehicle rental and private vehicle ownership. In addition members have access to different types of vehicles. Each car-share vehicle can replace between 4 and 8 privately owned vehicles. 25/05/2005 - It’s time for a Celebration at the next SomerVille Sunday on the 5th June 2005 as we now have Permission to Advertise! The day will start at 10am in the Yellow Shed. We will spend the first 2 hours confirming the vision items that have not yet been deemed "givens". This includes the controversial topic of cats and dogs - so come along and have your say. Then we will party! Please bring along your favourite food and drink.
19/05/2005
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Enterprise Workshop Summary Document has been prepared from the
event on 14th May 2005. Survey results and key findings are included
together with information on business feasibility and where we go from
here. The next step is to work out the feasibility of your business idea
for SomerVille using the
provided template. Good luck! Our next enterprise meeting is on
Saturday June 11th at 10 am at the Yellow 18/05/2005 - A CSA Summary Document has been prepared from the event on 7th May. The next step is to put together a CSA Information Pack and get CSA members on board. This process has now begun. We are looking for some support people to help out in various areas. If you have a few hours spare and would like to help in getting the CSA cranked up please let Paul Antonelli know. 09/05/2005 - The Online Enterprise Survey deadline has been extended to Wednesday 11th May. If you are struggling with how to fit a few diverse business ideas into one survey, the tip from Stacey is to complete the survey multiple times (once for each business idea)! Any information (no matter how small) is valuable. Even if all you know is the type of business you might like to conduct, and have no idea about the marketing or financial side of things, then please complete the survey and only answer the questions you are comfortable with. At the Enterprise Workshop this Saturday 14th May at 10 am, the survey results will be analysed and discussed and the feasibility of potential businesses will be assessed. Come along and find out what businesses are planned and also what opportunities will be available for businesses and employees. Please register for this event. 04/05/2005 - The Olive Picking is on again on Sunday 8th May from 9am. Bring your Mum for Mother's Day! Two trees were done on the 30th April and there are eleven trees to go. There will be a nominal charge for the olives on a per kg basis to cover costs and those involved in the process will get a special hands-on rate. For more information, contact Stacey. 27/04/2005 - A significant milestone achievement in the evolution of SomerVille has been achieved. The Hon Alannah MacTiernan has formally advised us that she is willing to allow the rezoning amendment relating to SomerVille to be advertised for public comment. This means that it has passed through the first stage of approval for both the Shire of Mundaring and now the Western Australian Planning Commission. We will now commence the process of carrying out the detailed design and subdivision process in relation to all aspects of the SomerVille Ecovillage™ project. 25/04/2005 - There will be an Olive Harvest on Saturday 30th April from 1pm and then on to a sleepover before the Governance Workshop on the Sunday from 10am-4pm. It’s the time of year at SomerVille to harvest the olives. There are 13 olive trees in the orchard. They are looking healthy and are ready to have their fruit collected. This process would involve probably an afternoon’s work collecting and then sorting out leaves and stalks from the olive itself. There has been an estimate from Good Authority #1 that there may be about 100kg of olives. Please contact Stacey for more details. 21/04/2005 - The topic for the next SomerVille Sunday on the 1st of May is Governance. This will be a thought provoking day as we start to look at how we are going to govern ourselves at SomerVille . We will be looking at what Governance means, and also what we require from our Governance model at SomerVille . As part of the day we will be looking at the various governance models in use and talking about on the ground observations from the Research Trip Undertaken. As usual it will be in the Yellow Shed and bring lunch to share. 21/04/2005 - The next step in the evolution of enterprise at SomerVille is the Online Enterprise Survey. It is recommended that you first read through the entire survey so that you may develop an overall understanding of some of the questions. You may need to do more thinking and further research before you can answer all 55 questions in the survey. The aim is for you to develop more clarity about what you hope to be doing and more importantly why you want to do it. The next Enterprise Workshop will be on Saturday the 14th May 2005 at SomerVille .
21/04/2005
- The Community Supported
Agriculture (CSA) survey information has been collated and you are
invited along to the SomerVille CSA Launch Meeting. This will take
place on Saturday 7th May at 10 am on site in the now famous Yellow
Shed. The purpose of the meeting is to: 17/04/2005 - The Sustainable Energy Development Office (SEDO) is hosting a free community seminar, "Harvesting Renewable Energy for your Home" that will take place on 4th May 2005 from 10:30am to 12:30pm at the Subiaco Sustainable Demonstration Home, 2 Allora Ave, Subiaco. Please register by Monday 2nd May. Phone: 9420 5606 or email: sedo@energy.wa.gov.au or fax: 9420 5699. 16/04/2005 - Submissions for the new SomerVille Ecovillage™ logo have been received. Feedback is welcome and should be directed to Dominic Carlino. 16/04/2005 - The Ecocom Newsletter Issue 3 is available on the Ecocom Members Only site. 15/04/2005 - A free seminar, "Social Enterprise: Partnerships and Sustainability", sponsored by the City of Swan will take place at the Midland Town Hall on Wednesday 20th April 8:45 am to 4:30 pm. For full details, see: http://www.partnerships.org.au/SocialEnterpriseWA.htm. To book a place, please RSVP to Carolyn Groves on 9267 9292 or email Carolyn at groves@swan.wa.gov.au by Monday 18 April, 2005 or register online at: http://www.partnerships.org.au/WARegistration.htm. 13/04/2005 - The current lot layout survey closes tomorrow. If you haven't already done so, you still have time to complete the survey at: http://www.greenedge.org/survey/lots.asp. The survey will take no more than a minute of your time (there are only three questions!) and will help us in reviewing the draft lot layout that was completed last year. 08/04/2005 - Just a quick reminder about the Open Day this Sunday from 10am to 4pm on site in Chidlow. The tours have been scheduled for 11:30 am and 1:30 pm. Remember to bring a friend! Note that Old Northam Road access to Chidlow is currently closed due to the Great Eastern Highway road works. Motorists coming from Perth should turn left at Lion Street and then right at Elliot Road to arrive in Chidlow. I look forward to seeing you on the day.
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