desertSMART EcoFair – Alice Springs – 2012

All the best for the coming year everyone! Here’s a good article over at the Nourishing the Planet Blog for those peeps who want to make some new year resolutions.. As we head into 2012, many of us will be resolving to lose those few extra pounds, save more money, or spend a few more [...]

Check out this link to an article on www.econews.com.au that looks at the possibility of Port Augusta leading the take-up of Solar Thermal Technology: http://econews.com.au/news-to-sustain-our-world/port-augusta-may-be-repowered-with-solar-thermal/ Here are some other news links about the story: http://beyondzeroemissions.org/media/newswire/transcript-mark-ogge-radio-interview-abc-port-pririe-111128 http://www.transcontinental.com.au/news/local/news/general/push-for-solar-thermal-plant/2301908.aspx http://yes2renewables.org/2011/11/16/alinta-considers-converting-port-augusta-generators-to-solar-thermal/

There are some exciting possibilies opening up around Solar Thermal Arrays around Australia. Here is a link to a CSIRO project that is putting us at the cutting edge of solar research: See more details about this project at: http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Climate/Reducing-GHG/Solar-Brayton-Cycle.aspx (learn more about Alice Springs’ local solar initiatives at: http://alicesolarcities.com.au and http://www.dkasolarcentre.com.au)

A fun video inspired, in part, by the ideas explored in David Deutsch’s new book, THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY. .. Check it out..

The desertSMART EcoFair is looking to the future.. If you have some good ideas or are interested in getting involved in discussions about the location, format and content of next year’s EcoFair, please get in touch with the organising committee at: info@ecofair.org.au or contact Jimmy on 08 89522497.

Congratulations to Jodie Clarkson for coming up with the winning idea for 2011! [In response to the possible uses of Augmented Reality Technology]: “Bring back Central Australian Megafauna – A 3D replication of an Alcoota fossil collecting site at the Desert Park with bones of diprotodontids, palorchestids, dromornithids, thylacines and thylacoleonids as well as images [...]

Got a few songs up your sleeve that are ready for a public audience? Well, come down to Olive Pink Botanical Gardens on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st of August – there’ll be a relaxed music & performance area set up near the Bean Tree Cafe. Email info@ecofair.org.au or contact Edan on 0402029968 to be [...]

Information about stallholder registration is available here. Information about running a workshop is available here. To be a stall-holder at this year’s EcoFair please get your applications in before 21st July 2011. UPDATE! ## STALL & WORKSHOP REGISTRATIONS HAVE CLOSED## – but there’s still some room left…so get your application in quick.

    Welcome to the new website for the 2011 desertSMART EcoFair. Please follow this link to checkout 2011 Highlights and this link for the 2011 Program. Please visit regularly and stay up-to-date with the exciting range of stalls, forums and other activities we have planned for 2011! You can follow us on Twitter here [...]