20 years of sustainability action, means 20 AGMs and lots to reflect on.

Best we bring in a professional to help manage this...

Don't Panic! An evening with Ian McBurney and MASG AGM promises to keep the officialness brief, a personal intro to PM Thishouldeasy and a new guidebook to rival Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

When: 6:45pm for a 7pm start, Thursday 12th November 2026

Where: Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine

What: A very brief, but celebratory AGM, followed by Ian McBurney speaking about Don't Panic and book signing opportunity.

"Don't Panic - Live the good life for planet, people and place", by Ian McBurney, published September 2026.

Feeling overwhelmed about the state of the planet and society? Feeling powerless to help? It's a heck of a time to be alive.

Don’t Panic! You’ve got this! This 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! We’ve got this! Together we can change the world around us. Find out how to influence and work effectively with others. And in an Australian first, Prime Minister Thishouldbeasy will tell you what we can agitate for.

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.

Ian 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’s a speaker, author, MC, entrepreneur and an educator. He performed the famous Vox Bandicoot environmental theatre, helped to shape the Sustainability Street Approach, ran his consulting business Live ecoLogical and cofounded the Bendigo Sustainability Group, Synergize Co-working Hub, bHive sharing economy Cooperative and the Greater Bendigo Climate Collaboration.

Attendance is free, please register to attend via this event booking.

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