May 2009

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Kate Bedwell
May 21, 2009
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live local officially launches!

  • live local officially launches!
  • live local officially launches!
  • live local officially launches!
  • live local officially launches!

The live local website was launched on Tuesday night at Table for 20, in Surry Hills and was well attended by experts in sustainability, business leaders (including Lucy Turnbull) social media gurus and TV personalities including Guerilla Gardener, Mickie Quick.

live local is a website where users can upload their stories, pictures and videos of living locally. It is free to use and already people are sharing ideas and inspiration. Examples include experiments as simple as #93 ‘A smile doesn’t cost a thing’ to local economic restructure in #99 ‘creating my own money’.

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Kate Bedwell
May 15, 2009
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DE Talks: Ronan Sharkey talks triple j, online and youth

  • DE Talks: Ronan Sharkey talks triple j, online and youth
  • DE Talks: Ronan Sharkey talks triple j, online and youth

Ronan gave us an entertaining and thoughtful insight into being a triple j journalist, the opportunities and limitations as a reporter for the national broadcaster, and the interaction of radio and online media.

Reporting for the Hack program, he would travel to remote towns and city streets.  Hack speaks to a young audience and attempts to hit on issues that young people take to heart – music downloads, cyber-bullying, drugs. Ronan explained that the internet lets the Hack team monitor surges in interest in certain topics and use the email feedback from listeners to feed follow-on stories, be it pornography, working girls or truckies.

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May 8, 2009
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May greenUps

  • May greenUps

The third Sydney greenUps was themed around film and the environment and was another full house.

Nell Schofield introduced us to GRASS.org.au her initiative to promote sustainability in the film industry. Director Maryella Hatfield presented The Future Makers a documentary on Australian innovation in renewable energy, and Mark Forstmann showed a teaser of Monkey Puzzle a new Australian film set in Blue Mountains. Phil Stubbs showed Holland Tunnel by the Neistat Brothers, The Age of Stupid film trailer, and Energy Wasting Day a humorous satirical site.

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