AAAAWAG ACTIVITY
GENERAL NOTES
202404161745: AAAAWAG continues to provide input to https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/royal-park-master-plan-review. The AAAAWAG feedback over the past several months to me as the AAAAWAG mailbox and AAAAWAG-convenor indicates the cohort of special interest groups (SIG) will only make a submission under the headings:
Section 1: Estimate the potential for Royal Park to improve the safety, health, and well-being of the Melbourne urban population, specifically focusing on our ageing society.
Section 2: Evaluate optimal Royal Park planning options and approximations allowing for climate change adaptation.
Section 3: What is the role of Royal Park in maintaining and improving regional ecological biodiversity?
Interested readers in any of the three topics are invited to write to me at oz4lca@gmail.com. The AAAAWAG submission drafting team will chew over the suggestions!
202403011730: AAAAWAG is still providing input to https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/royal-park-master-plan-review. Based on feedback from the Walking Octogenarian Citizen Scientists in AAAAWAG, the concept of Green-Flâneur is of little interest to them. However, the experience of shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of “forest bathing”, does arouse curiosity and warrants consideration in the Review.
202312131800: From now on, the only Participate Melbourne activity AAAAWAG provides input to is https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/royal-park-master-plan-review. Readers sharing AAAAWAG's interests and values are invited to email Horst (Oz) Kayak at oz4lca@gmail.com to cooperate in optimising the AAAAWAG submission’s effectiveness and addressing their specific issues.
202310241800:The https://treasury.gov.au/policy-topics/measuring-what-matters portal states, “Overall, submissions and stakeholder consultations supported the introduction of Measuring What Matters and the prospect of a role for the government in monitoring and advancing progress across a broad range of wellbeing indicators.”.
The meaning of the statement by the Commonwealth Government: “Overall, submissions and stakeholder consultations supported the introduction of Measuring What Matters and the prospect of a role for the government in monitoring and advancing progress across a broad range of well-being indicators” is of some interest to the AAAAWAG octogenarians who correspond with me.
202307281800: AAAAWAG started collecting feedback to submit to Measuring What Matters | Treasury.gov.au
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202307251800: AAAAWAG started to draft a submission covering https://engage.vic.gov.au/victorians-priorities-and-vision-for-the-future-of-our-waterways
202306191800: AAAAWAG circulated the Oxford Dictionary of Geography definition of neighbourhood, seeking comment from TCPA supporters in the community.
202301251800: AAAAWAG started to draft a submission on Barwon Heads Road Upgrade - Stage 2 | Engage Victoria, focusing on providing safe and salubrious walking infrastructure along the route.
202211141400: AAAAWAG registered to participate in 2023 Earth Day activities.
202211051800: AAAAWAG is now the single-access portal. All AAWAG submissions are now archived and may be accessed by contacting oz4lca@gmail.com.
202210290900 Note: AAAAWAG, the Australasian Alliance of Active Aging Walking Activity Groups are participating in the https://www.aitpm.com.au/events/online-conference-series/2022-online-technical-conference-series/welcome-to-the-online-technical-conference-series-2022 on "Active Travel Modelling" in the Live Q&A - AITPM Online Technical Conference Series, Friday, November 18⋅12:30 – 2:00 pm> Abstract
AAAAWAG, the Australasian Alliance of Active Aging Walking Activity Groups, are preparing submissions to Engage Victoria, covering:
Protecting consumers of distributed energy resources (DER) | Engage Victoria. The feedback window closes 5 pm,18 November 2022.
AAAAWAG, the Australasian Alliance of Active Aging Walking Activity Groups, includes several Citizen Science Communities and Special Interest Groups (SIGs), whose interests include participating in, recording and sharing field observations while involved in the walking and sitting activity in Nature. AAAAWAG SIGs share the belief that Nature-based activity, such as walking optimizes health benefit. The health impact modelling of walking in Nature is based on evidence that is the necessary crucial and required data and information for personal and public choice decisions in the allocation of space and time resources.
AAAAWAG shares TCPA values and endorses activities in which “The Town and Country Planning Association supports all levels of Australian governments to undertake explicit steps to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050”
The most recent correspondents to me favour using the concept of zero-sum. There seems to be confusion in the minds of some of what net-zero emissions means when discussing off-sets. A zero-sum equation allows for simpler localized decisions on the action being considered when making personal lifestyle decisions.