Closing Circle at SLAH!
Here’s another practice podcast.
Sustainable Living at Home (SLAH)_Closing Comments
Last night I used my JVC Video Recorder to record the closing comments made by participants in this year’s Sustainable Living at Home (aka SLAH) Program in St Kilda, Melbourne. To end the program, participant’s stood in a circle and passed around a talking stick. They shared 1 thing about their experience of SLAH.
Unfortunately we only captured a 1/3 of the comments as the battery in my video recorder died!
The practice part of this podcast was to convert the audio part of the Windows Media File (from the Video Recorder) into an .MP3 format for podcasting. After a 10 second google search I found this free software … 5 minutes later I had my podcasting file 
SLAH Background
Participants attended 5 x 3 hour workshops called SLAHminars. The core of the project is about taking action at home to live more sustainably. The 5 SLAHminar gatherings are Energy, Water, Transport, Waste & Purchasing … staged 3 to 4 weeks apart. We had over 60 households at the final workshop.
Even though SLAH is primarily about “saving the planet” and living with less resources … the biggest outcomes for participants are all about connection with community … relationship building … realising that they are not alone in their quest to live more sustainably!
Viv and I are meeting tomorrow to plan our first, official Winkipod-cast. Stay tuned! This blog will be updated soon with all the trimmings, widgets and background stuff.
Cheers
Geoff Brown
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