Ever had a burning science question that felt too silly to say out loud, or that lead you down a Wikipedia hole? CERES Energy Education Coordinator Tom Lang wants to answer it! Send your "how does that work?" question to sciencecorner@ceres.org.au and Tom will put his brains to work to find out. [...]
By Rod Duncan, CERES Board Member and Pro bono planning advisor to CERES in this matter. -- We spent five days at VCAT last week advocating CERES’ concerns about this proposal. The plans had been modified slightly from the plans that were advertised and to which we formally objected, but the significant parameters remain [...]
As we know September and Spring is a time of plenty and promise so while the magpies, living in the Manna Gums above the learning centre at CERES, were busy laying the foundations of this years nest, the site team at CERES were busy creating their own fluid and resilient structural foundation for the [...]
Ever had a burning science question that felt too silly to say out loud, or that lead you down a Wikipedia hole? CERES Energy Education Coordinator Tom Lang wants to answer it! Send your "how does that work?" question to sciencecorner@ceres.org.au and Tom will put his brains to work to find out. Here's Tom: [...]
Despite the cold, cold wet and windy morning with patches of hail those connected to the vision of a new spiritual hub of CERES came together on Saturday the 18th of August for the third instalment of our ongoing working bees. We began by shifting the last of the blue stone rocks left from [...]
It was a clear, crisp morning on Saturday the 4th of August, the silver wattles in full bloom and the resident magpies were building their nests in the trees above the worksite of the Meditation Garden. We milled about and whispered while the Melbourne Zen group practiced their weekly Saturday morning meditation inside the CERES learning [...]
By Lauren Kaszubski It’s a week into August, post my Plastic Free July challenge, and I have begun to reflect on my experience. Overall, I really enjoyed my plastic-free month; although, it wasn't entirely plastic-free – there were some slip-ups, a ski holiday, and visiting guests that brought some plastic into the month of July. I tried not [...]
CERES had a very famous electric vehicle for its use up until recently. Our Citroen Belingo was the first electric car conversion road registered in Australia. In its day it was pioneering technology and enthusiastically built by talented volunteers from the community with backing from like minded organisations (Donkey Wheel, Swinburne University). It's CERES' [...]
Ever had a burning science question that felt too silly to say out loud, or that lead you down a Wikipedia hole? CERES Energy Education Coordinator Tom Lang wants to answer it! Send your "how does that work?" question to sciencecorner@ceres.org.au and Tom will put his brains to work to find out. Here's Tom: [...]
On a sleepy Saturday, 21st of July, folks from the CERES community and many pathways of spirituality gathered at the fire circle (Ngaragee) for the first Meditation Garden working bee. This was the first structure built at CERES and the day was bitter-sweet as we were to pull it down. Noel Blencowe, known as [...]