FOOD
RECOVER:
- small scale family farms for local produce
- self reliance for local food production (2)
- milking cows
- locally made cheeses
- chooks in every back yard (2)
- good quality tap water
- sharing tasks & specialising (some doing chooks,
others milk etc) (2)
- making own food, clothes & housing sustainably,
as needed
- old preserving techniques (have workshops)
REFUSE:
- GMO food agriculture
CHERISH:
- food - simple, local and delicious (2)
- the Gelato Bar
CREATE:
- all available public space used for publicly available
food (using saved seed)
- herbs/veggies round fruit trees on nature strips, in
planter boxes, green spaces (5)
- edible useful plants in gardens, on verges in town
everywhere (fruit & nuts)(7)
- public bushfood gardens
- community gardens on public & other spaces (3)
- permaculture everywhere – weekly permablitz (2)
- food security organic and safe - locally grown (2)
- community shared agriculture - local foods grown
everywhere
- rice growing
- maize growing - need grain for food security (3) and
polenta
- making farming sexy!
- food retailers donating 5% of output to community
needs
- local nutrious food prepared locally for hospital/
meals on wheels etc (3)
- healthy food for all
- permanent growers market in town linked to community
gardens
- free market every month - coming together to take, give, share -
food,art,talk
- a full organic co-op (with volunteers) in town
ENERGY
RECOVER:
- community owned electricity production (2)
- water tanks, fuel stoves (2)
REFUSE:
- overhead powerlines and other cables (3)
CREATE:
· locally produced and
maintained electricity (2)
· community owned
renewable energy (solar/methane/wind farm etc) (4)
· harness energy from
floods, damless hydro (3)
· shared energy sources
from homes into (shire-wide) standalone community grid (3)
· regional self sufficiency
· frequency-based power
source
· no 'stand-by' on
appliances
HEALTH
RECOVER:
- local hospital at full operational standard
- hospital kitchen open
- hospital growing own fruit and vegetables
- hospital as a more social, friendly part of the
community
- home birth and wholistic birthing centres
- elder generation being ‘doula’ support for 6 weeks
after birth -- cooking, cleaning, emotional support
- celebrating birth not 'managing' it
- preventative health care
- more support for families (broad definition)
- the hospital and friendly environment
- drinking water bubblers in town
- birth known as normal, everyday event, we naturally
have knowledge about (3)
- birth understood as women's business
- respect in wider community for birth 'elders'
- respect and support for the profession of independent
midwifery
REFUSE:
- fluoride in water (2)
- closing our hospital
- cows in the river
- constant legal and legislative challenges to birth
workers
- medical control of midwives practice or birth choices
- having birth taken from us
- unsafe care/laws/rules
- fear based care (2)
- being hoodwinked into thinking we have no power
CHERISH:
- good quality tap water
- our knowledge of how to birth our babies gently to
create a more gentle world
- birth knowledge and power
- bliss and lifelong power women experience from a beautiful
birth
- our rights to birth where and with whom we choose
- keep hospital
- local hospital services
- hospital maintained
CREATE:
- build and own our own hospital/ wholistic medical
centre
- smoke free town (cigarettes)
- water bottle refill stations
- more drinking taps in town = less plastic
- health & well being for aboriginal children (2)
- conception, pregnancy, birth preparation & early
post-natal cherished by everyone
- creating a more gentle world by birthing gently, in a
well-supported atmosphere
- wholistic free health centre
- community run wholistic birth centre -
conception/pregnancy/birth/post & ante-natal, addressing emotional
& spiritual needs as well as physical
- sanctuary space to connect during pregnancy &
birth, alternative to being at home (3)
- every baby, child in Bello cherished/celebrated/ born
into a circle of loving support (3)
- support network for birth workers
- Medicare funding for all births in all settings (3)
- continuity of care in childbirth
- hospital with hospice facilities for dying people
- hospital = healing spiritual retreat with good food
- hospital workers unstressed and healthy
- hospital with many different modalities
- hospital with range of therapies and more 'open' to
kids, pets, ideas
- hospital surrounded by vegie and herb gardens used by
hospital kitchen
- hospital with flowers, sweet smells, soft colours,
art on the walls
- hospital accepting w/o discrimination women in labour
needing transfer from homebirth
- natural healing not hospital
- voluntary teams to support workings of hospital,
schools etc
- more and better aged care -older people being
centrally located and honoured
- excellent standard of care and inclusiveness for ill,
disabled and elderly people
- circles of support throughout the community
GOVERNANCE
REFUSE:
- hierarchical, secretive, exclusive, self serving
processes of managing (2)
- centralised energy, decisions, government
- Council mismanaged
- Council losing ratepayers money in stockmarket
leaving little for infrastructure.
- Council lack of long term vision
CREATE:
- decisions taken slowly, transparently and together
- people's council (2) - collaborative community
decision making
- quieter - happier more practical meetings
- a model for decision making that is efficient and
considers all needs
- use of openspace technology to get things going
- openness in relation to Council (& vice versa),
petitions/participatory decision making
- Council listening to residents and acting on that
- planning control to protect the "vision"
YOUTH
RECOVER:
- children playing safely everywhere
CHERISH:
- nurturing our youth
- groups that engage youth in great ways
- nice kids with sticky fingers and ice cream
CREATE:
·
youth /community centre /space (5)
·
collective church/youth event/venue (rotational)
·
more youth/family controlled spaces(merge CWA,Sen Cits,Red
Cross to free up space)
·
places and services for younger people - sport, film,
theatre - especially at night
·
large friendly space for the youth of Bellingen to
organise their own centre
·
community-owned childrens centre
·
mobile play-bus for children 0-5 & Mobile playgroup
9.30-12pm
·
safely fenced, decent playgrounds, better equipment (3)
·
provision for Bellingen teenage youth (particulary 12-17)
(4)
·
youth involvement
·
activities for teenagers organised by teenagers
·
places to create using young people's interest
TRANSPORT
RECOVER
- safe roads for school buses
- safety on roads ref trucks coming through
- no petrol machines in the town
- less traffic
- low energy transport
- integrated public /community transport (2)
- horses for transport, carriages to outlying areas
- local transport network
REFUSE:
- noisy, smelly traffic in Hyde Street (7)
- bad parking at tourist info centre and library
- parking meters
- logging and large logging trucks (3)
- speeding and bad driving along Waterfall Way
- bad roads & Council not fixing them
- addiction to car use, car centric culture (2)
- lots of car travel, getting everywhere quickly
- driving to Coffs every morning
- oil-fuelled anything
CREATE
·
car free zone in CBD - no cars (2)
·
regular car free days
·
a bypass/ tunnel for through traffic (3)
·
main street one lane, lights at each end
·
more pedestrian crossings - monument, court house, PO to
council park
·
roundabout at PO corner
·
streetscape to reflect sustainability philosophy
·
better parking
·
more disabled parking closer to shopping
·
bridge linking north and south during floods
·
safe, extensive bicycle tracks and safe access everywhere
(7)
·
good pathways to connect the town for walking
·
walking & safe biking paths off road Urunga to Dorrigo
·
life and work travel by bikes & sustainably powered
public transport (3)
·
community-owned electric car/bike fleet: share, pick up,
return points plug in (2)
·
locally made, maintained transport - reliable group
transport systems
·
public transport systems - mini bus shuttles
·
more transport sharing, less private cars in Bellingen
·
workmen’s buses to take and collect from all trade jobs
daily
·
workmen’s equipment collected and delivered by a back-up
truck daily
·
emission-free vehicles
·
car-sharing cooperatives
·
safe hitch-hiking system
·
horses and carts, hitching posts & water troughs in
town (3)
·
travel Armidale to coast - no cars, mixture of electric
bicycles, horses
·
horse tracks and horse parking in town
·
light railway on the highway
·
personal hover vehicles - no need for roads (2)
AMENITIES
RECOVER:
- the hospital and friendly environment
- heritage buildings retaining original features etc
- ACE etc supporting locals, local industry, trade & services, organic
co-op,
- drinking water bubblers in town
- the lolly shop
- water tanks, fuel stoves (2)
- caravan park
- picnic facilities
- clean streets with unblocked drains
- gardens and parks taken care of
- police station fully manned
- community responsibility for local infrastructure
- entire community built of networks
- volunteer groups for maintenance of community assets
verges, parks (rostered)
REFUSE:
- vandalism (4)
- TV & endless hours in front of various screens
(use local library & internet for research)
- litter (on roadside etc)
- gutters broken by old street trees - need to plant new ones to replace these
by 2020
CHERISH
- spaces to walk/talk with locals
- Cemetery Creek, Bellingen Park
- Bellingen Market and Growers Market (3)
- shared meeting places
- swimming in the
river
- community gardens
- community radio
- community support centre (e.g. neighbourhood centre)
- community groups such as Transition Bellingen
- all local services
- our council remaining independent
CREATE:
- youth /community centre /space (5)
- make more use of church buildings
- collective church/youth event/venue (rotational)
- more youth/family controlled spaces(merge CWA,Sen
Cits,Red Cross to free up space)
- places and services for younger people - sport, film,
theatre - especially at night
- night time community gatherings in town (on Telstra
site?)
- late night music venues
- large friendly space for the youth of Bellingen to
organise their own centre
- community-owned childrens centre
- mobile play-bus for children 0-5 & Mobile
playgroup 9.30-12pm
- safely fenced, decent playgrounds, better equipment
(3)
- community maintenance of communal buildings,
infrastructure and homes
HOUSING
RECOVER:
- affordable housing for renting or buying
REFUSE:
- non environmentally sound building practices
- high density housing and housing development
- bog standard urban development
- high-rise buildings
- uncontrolled development
- inadequate housing
- expensive rental accommodation moving us towards a
yuppy Byron for the rich
- unhealthy mouldy environments
- government initiatives that are not wanted by the
majority
CREATE:
- eco village clusters, for young/old (3)
- community housing pods -expand/contract/stage of life
- sustainable design for all houses - living example of
sustainable houses and gardens
- all new development showcasing sustainable and
affordable housing
- community housing
- affordable aesthetic accommodation
- new housing integrated into the environment, more
trees kept in developments
- short term community housing assistance on
farms/communities in return for work
- use of local materials - hemp, timber, earth
- locally made community housing plus shared
micro-local resources
- change laws to establish more communities outside of
town eg Homelands (community title too expensive, multiple occupancy too
small)
- low cost housing with big gardens for veggies
- paint the buildings in the main street
ECONOMY
RECOVER:
- simple, localised, community-focused economy eg local
shops at Gleniffer
- making sustainable local products
- more people living and working on the land
- mutuality -
the co-op
- cooperatives for consumables
- keeping businesses local
REFUSE:
- multinationals in the town - no MacDonalds, Woolies,
Bunnings, MNC (4)
- living as if we had 4 planets, excessive debt, no
regard for future generations
- mortgages
- capitalism
CHERISH:
- simple lifestyle affordable for people with one
income
- organic & sustainable ventures & living -food
supplies/farming
- sustainable farming/gardening (not shed/penned
milking cows)
- small local businesses - no multinationals/
corporations
- Bello Market (best market ever) and Growers Market
CREATE:
- local skill-based economy - bartering of services
- widespread bartering system
- local currency to stop money drain (e.g. LETS)(3)
- move from money-based economy - more sharing, status
not based on wealth
- skill sharing - central database enabling exchange of
skills, produce etc
- sustainable Community Resource Directory giving modes
of availability
- continued
- more jobs for our young people
- sustainable enterprises for youth
- opportunities for people to return to Bellingen
- community food/employment -
gardens/producers/preservers/suppliers
- ally our interests with local businesses and farms
- star rate business based on social/environmental
responsibility
- more variety in shop types
- less reliance on 'big money' commercial products
- local existing trading functional, with beautiful
goods and services
- simplified technology requiring cooperatives for
harvest, building etc
- living totally sustainably, sharing & swapping to
attain that
- shorter working days with the help of trhe community
veggie garden
- develop eco-tourism route
- daily or weekly central local market - Church Street
mall (4)
- permanent growers market in town linked to community
gardens
- free market every month - coming together to take, give, share -
food,art,talk
- a full organic co-op (with volunteers) in town
- localised living economies
VALUES
RECOVER:
·
engagement with feeling and senses - not just thinking
·
respecting responsibility for earth
·
respect for people and resources
·
community values and support for neighbours
·
everyone feeling they have an essential and creative role
in the community
·
valuing older people for their experience/wisdom/skills
·
elderly and disabled socially integrated, not isolated (2)
·
intergenerational interconnectedness - integration
·
same old people still in town - long-staying in community
·
people having time for each other
·
diversity of people
·
chores shared joyously
·
less money more time
·
creating time
·
taking deep breaths
·
craftsmanship
·
genuine laid-back Bello (without pretentiousness)
REFUSE:
- vandals and vandalism (4)
- shaming and intimidation
- loneliness, fear, selfishness
- cynical, judging attitudes
- negative talk, no listening
- defeat
- inequality
- exploitation
- secrets and lies
- pretentiousness
- waiting for someone else to do things (eg Kevin)
- lack of time to talk to people,help,get to know,spend
time with elderly/disabled
- money and clock ruling our lives
- me/mine in the sense of money and materialism
- questionnaires
- super hero myths
- boguns and rednecks
- racism - bad in the past, still here to some extent
- us vs. them - eg old-timers & original settlers
vs newcomers/hippies/tre-changers
- normalisation of heavy marijuana growing/smoking,
creating paranoia, distrust,insularity
- unacceptable behaviour - thuggery, theft, violence
(2)
CHERISH
- community spirit and overall tolerance (7)
- small vibrant community with room for differing
lifestyles
- diversity (2)
- good mix of farm/hippy/city - be what you want
- inclusivity, acceptance
- friendliness (3)
- welcoming, smiling people
- respecting each other (3)
- valuing each others strengths
- feeling of belonging to place
- know thy neighbour, cherishing one another (2)
- local security, even very local eg neighbours
- healthy and healing
- nurturing connectiveness
- extended common unity
- acknowledgement of our spirit
- life based on connection and mutuality, not dollars
- people not valuing cars/material things too much -
great to raise kids here
- experiencing instead of expending
- giving time/energy to one another -connection in
spirit w/animals,earth,food (2)
- value of slowing down - less hurry (2)
- people not working much - time for
community/socialising
- defining family as people in your heart, not
necessarily in your blood
- cultural freedom (2)
- freedom of expression
- passion to make change and embrace it, alternative
ideas, global ideas
- our "greeniness"
- our knowledge of how to birth our babies gently to
create a more gentle world
- birth knowledge and power
- bliss and lifelong power women experience from a
beautiful birth
- our rights to birth where and with whom we choose
- creative permission - individual, contracts between
partners to agree to local risk
(meaning not having lives dictated by insurance companies)
- relating to others with holistic values, for the good
of all, at all times
- slowing down, having more time for each other (2)
- more time to breathe, be with and listen to each
other (4)
- self-awareness, inner balance and wisdom valued
- looking after everyone
- community interest in individual welfare
- teenagers' energy valued
- children having responsibility and hope
- respect for our youth
CULTURE
RECOVER:
- Gumbayngirr names for places
- traditional aboriginal names for hills, creeks etc
- Aboriginal stories including experiences since
european settlement
- Aboriginal knowledge made visible (e.g. at the Info
Centre)
- local Aboriginal history - good and sad stories (of
what we did)
- education by elders
- knowledge of what used to happen in local area when
first settled
- Alma Doepel
- old skills, sharing local knowledge - horses,
woodworking with hand tools (2)
- "neighbourhood watch" in a good trusting
way
- the good old days, village square culture (2)
REFUSE:
- crime
CHERISH
- community music, art, culture (5)
- festivals - jazz, global (4)
- creative, alternative, artistic
- music in Church Street and shady trees
- café culture
- wonderful shops
- historic facades of buildings
- Chrysalis School
- wharf at the river
- our elders (2)
- history
- history of natural birth in the Shire
- rich diversity of our community
- small, close-knit community
- simple lifestyles and alternative lifestyles
CREATE:
- Church Street public event monthly (road closed,
movie, food, shops open)
- end of day celebrations, dancing, stories, laughter
- music jam space
- many celebrations - equinoxes, solstice, full moons
etc
- more multicultural celebrations ie yearly
- sharing music and art and nurturing each other
- more public art/ street art
- Bellingen beacon of art, culture, healing and wisdom
- statue of Adam Gilchrist
ENVIRONMENT
RECOVER:
- soil fertility
- native vegetation and natural habitats
- old growth trees which were used to build the town's
foundations
- knowledge on natural environment - natives,
bushtucker, prior to logging
- deep river system that is healthy to swim in
- drinkable river water (3)
- travelling using the river
- parties on boats on the river (2)
- proper flood mitigation
- clean water
- quiet
- moonlight
REFUSE:
- fluoride in water (2)
- camphor laurels
- cows in the river
- polluted river and degraded banks
- poisoning of weeds
- water restrictions
- mosquitoes
- Indian Myna birds
- plastic bags & other waste packaging, all plastic
(3)
CHERISH:
- Gleniffer river, beaches, rainforests, green valleys
- national parks (4)
- lots of green areas outside the town
- water, vegetation, rugged landscape
- our abundant trees (2)
- our river (3)
- rain water
- clean fresh air (4)
- sun hours
- bushland/native fauna/ natural beauty
- beauty of our countryside, trees, river
- treeplanting - looking after this beautiful place
- birdsong
- peaceful environment (3)
CREATE:
- clean water - river always clean (2)
- river used for drinking, swimming and as a social
centre
- sewage disposal not in river/ water not mixed with
human waste
- dealing with own waste, composting toilets, sewage
disposal - not water based (2)
- more rainwater collection
- neighbourhood water storage
- cycle-friendly town planning
- real protection of threatened species