So much to catch up on! First a quick reminder, tonight is our SustainaBundy general meeting! Get all the details here. We'll talk about all our upcoming events, so we welcome everyone to attend!

In case you missed it, SustainaBundy Movie Night III had a big spread in Saturday's paper! (I'll have the SustainaBundy scrapbook on hand tonight if anyone would like to see it - and all our other articles - in person!) The response to the movie night has been so positive that we're doing it all over again next Monday. Read more about Movie Night IV.

Very excitingly, The 2008 SustainaBundy Directory and Guide: how to live a GREENER life in & around Bundaberg is COMPLETE! I'll be sending the files to the printer today and we'll have the real thing in our hands very soon. This feels like a huge accomplishment, at least to me. Though on the surface this little hundred-page booklet will look pretty basic and simple, many many hours and days and sleepless nights of work have gone into it's making. As I mention in it, "We published this guidebook because it needed to be done, not because we have any expertise in creating slick publications. It isn’t perfect, but it’s important." Next year I hope we can get some more people involved with the guidebook project to make it even better.

Also, did everyone enjoy Australia Day and Chinese New Year? Some people on this list probably know that as passions go, mine are my husband, sustainability and photography (in that order). For some months now I've been posting photos to my Flickr page. Lots are from before we moved to Bundy, several dozen are photos of our dogs Rhythm and Blues, but I also have 60 photos from around Bundy - events, weather, scenery... Including some from Australia Day and Chinese New Year. I think Bundy deserves a lot more attention than it gets and we (as residents and SustainaBundy members) should be proud of it- flickr is a great way to show off that pride! As SustainaBundy continues to pick up new, enthusiastic members and we have more and more events and activities, we'll be able to use flickr as another tool (along with our own site, our MySpace page, our YouTube page and our Facebook page!) to promote a sustainable Bundaberg. It can easily be argued that these networking and marketing tools (and photography and the internet themselves!) aren't sustainable - but they are invaluable in helping us make the transition to sustainability, particularly when it comes to reaching people who haven't yet heard what we have to say.

That's it from me for the moment- feel free to hit "reply" in your email or "add comment" on the website if you have something to say!

Hope to see you all tonight!

Andi Hazelwood
SustainaBundy