Bushfire home retrofit… and Permaculture

Our premiere of Permaculture Victoria Speaker Sessions - 4 or more (!) a year!

$15 per session which proceeds go to supporting Permaculture Victoria. 

OR for a full year membership is $36 or $28 concession and FREE ACCESS to all speakers and local permaculture activities.

DO NOT pay membership via this link. Please join up to join in on the Permaculture Victora website. https://www.permaculturevictor...

*** PLEASE ONLY RSVP Here IF YOU ARE ATTENDING IN PERSON at Arribri Community Centre. ***

Are you ready for this summer’s bushfire season? 

Have you often thought about how to increase your home’s bushfire protection?

Then this is the talk for you!

For our November session we welcome Nigel and Sue Bell offering to share their expertise in this field.

Nigel Bell, principal of ECOdesign Architects / Bushfire Architecture, has two decades’ experience with bushfire planning design and construction, becoming a national expert for the Australian Institute of Architects. He represents the AIA on the three ‘bushfire’ Australian Standards and was an expert presenter to the 2020 bushfire Royal Commission. Previously he spent much of 2009 facilitating/leading bushfire recovery at Marysville and Triangle,including a visioning day for a better future, and a community design charette (known as the Phoenix Workshop). More recently he has led Renew/Sanctuary magazine’s ‘Beyond BAL – finding Australia’s most bushfire resilient homes’ and will be featured in the November edition. Nigel’s website: https://www.ecodesignarchitect...

Sue Bell has a lifetime of achievement as an educator and practitioner, garden designer, strategic planner and landscape architect, and has completed a Permaculture Consultant’s Design Certificate with Rosemary Morrow. She has a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Planning. Sue actively participated with Nigel in the 2009 Marysville bushfire recovery events, bringing her place-making, horticulture and broader landscape knowledge to the workshops with cultural sensitivity. Recently retired after more than a decade working as an urban designer in the bushfire-prone Blue Mountains, she continues to integrate her knowledge and understanding of the broader issues whilst delving down into place-making design through writing.

PLEASE ONLY RSVP IF YOU ARE ATTENDING IN PERSON at Arribri Community Centre. 

This is a combined in-person event (eastern suburbs Melbourne) and webinar (Zoom) option for members further afield. There’ll be a Q&A at the end so bring your Qs!
Tea & coffee provided. Please bring afternoon tea food to share if you can.

RSVP by Friday 8 November. Zoom link will be sent to members and paying guests prior to event. 

We look forward to seeing you… Trunk (Permaculture Victoria committee)