6-21 February: free talks and events around transport & cycling at the Sustainable Living Festival, e.g.:
• Sun 14 Feb, 12 – 5pm. Melbourne Hardcourt Bike Polo. Free beginner skills and mallet making workshop, followed by actual bike polo games; hosted by Melbourne Bike Polo.

• Thur 18 Feb, 3 – 4.30pm, Forum: Transport for Sustainable Cities; hosted by the Melbourne Transport Forum.

• Fri 19 Feb, 2 – 2.50pm, How Car Dependence is Turning the Suburban Dream to Nightmare; hosted by the Institute of Sensible Transport.

• Sat 20 Feb, 10 – 10.50am, The Tao of Cycling; hosted by the Austin-Mercy (workplace) BUG and the Banyule BUG.

• Sat 20 Feb, 12 – 12.50pm, CycleWise – Tips for Surviving and Thriving on the Roads; hosted by Bikes@Work.

• Sat 20 Feb, 5 – 5.50pm, Zero Emissions Transport by 2020: How do we get there?; hosted by Beyond Zero Emissions.

• Sun 21 Feb, 3 – 4.30pm, Bringing a Safe Climate Forward; hosted by Alternative Technology Association.

Sunday 21 February: Melbourne Summer Cycle. If you’ve never ridden over the West Gate Bridge, or really had a good look around Melbourne on a bike, this is the ride for you. A fundraiser for the MS Society.

Sunday 21 February: Ballarat Cycle Classic, 4 ride options all starting at Lake Wendouree. Jersey included in price; entire entry fee donated to Ballarat Cancer Research Centre.

7.30pm Thursday 25 February: Whittlesea BUG inaugural public meeting Thomastown Library, 52 Main St, Thomastown. Includes light supper. RSVP by 18 Feb: Kathy Pompetti 9217 2024; ntl@whittlesea.vic.gov.au

Tuesday 2 March: Super Tuesday Bicycle Count 2010. Bicycle Victoria coordinates a morning of bike counting at various locations. The counters can nominate a BUG that they’d like to receive $50. Please consider counting, and please nominate Darebin BUG.

15–20 March ‘Ride Around the River March 2010’: a fully supported 6 day journey exploring the lower Snowy River in East Gippsland; the plateaux, forests and rivers that feed it. www.snowyrivercycling.com.au

Sunday 28 March: MAD Ride, 3 ride options starting and finishing in Woodend. Put on by our friends in the Melbourne Bicycle Touring Club.
NOTICES

Bike Move: house moves by bicycle. Do you live in Darebin? Are you moving house? Get in touch with Transition Darebin and be moved by the power of two wheels!
Friends of the Earth (FOE) have released a Safe Sunscreen Guide. FOE is calling for nano-sunscreens to be removed from sale. Read the latest media release and download the guide.
Yarra BUG Radio can be heard every Monday morning, 10 – 10.30am on 3CR 855 on the AM dial.
Beyond the Yellow Jersey: Cycling’s Everyday Heroes. Be immortalised in a coffee table book designed to raise funds for the Amy Gillett Foundation.

Forwarded from Darebin BUG.