LIFESAVING ENERGY - SWIM FOR SOLAR
4.30pm on Friday 27th November at Queanbeyan Pool, 121 Crawford Street, Clean Energy for Eternity (CEFE) will launch the first of many swims in swimming pools to fundraise for solar energy. You can register online and download a sponsorship form. Payments can also be made online. Swim For Solar is raising funds to install renewable energy products at local pools. Excess funds raised by this series of Swims for Solar will go to other community assets, starting with Emergency Services and moving onto libraries and hospitals. The aim is reduce our carbon footprint and to live more sustainably by integrating renewable energy into our lives rather than relying on polluting gas and coal-fired electricity. LifeSaving Energy Swim for Solar will go all summer from 27 November 2009 until 1st March 2010.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate and get fit at the same time. Don't wait for others to fund and organise solar energy enterprises. Help us help ourselves. There has never been a better time to start a solar energy revolution! Please register your interest and participation online. Alternatively you may contact by phone and email Sponsorship forms will be available at the launch on Friday 27th November at Queanbeyan Pool. There will light refreshments and an opportunity to meet with like-minded people who care about the environment and our need to meet our energy needs through renewable energy. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE. THANK YOU in ADVANCE! People energy for life-saving energy! SWIM FOR SOLAR! LifeSaving Energy Swim for Solar series is raising funds for solar installations on local pools and community buildings. CEFE calls all enthusiastic swimmers to join in and help our communities make the transition to a renewable energy low carbon future.
Participating Pools include (ask your local pool to participate!): - Queanbeyan Pool
- CISAC Belconnen
- Dickson Pool
- Manuka Pool
- Civic Pool
Swim Solo or Join a Team. Swim relays – Swim laps in your own time.
Get fit in your lunch break while you raise $$$ for solar! Challenge your workplace colleagues to beat your tally.
Contact Karen Dahl kada@netspeed.com.au for information on how you can help.
Next week (from 22nd Nov) this page will have sponsorship forms and how to register for the swims.
NB LifeSaving Energy Big Swims have already raised over $60,000 for solar panels & wind turbines on surf clubs, fire stations and heritage-listed St John’s Church Bega on the coast and mountains.
By Tanya Davies
CityNews 17-24 September 2009
Former Canberra resident Philippa Rowland is passing on her environmental expertise while she visits home. Previously an agricultural scientist in Canberra, she is now a mother and inspiring community member.
In Bega where she lives, she has spent the past three years helping Clean Energy for Eternity become a successful not-for-profit organisation making positive changes to communities up and down the coast.
Now she’s assisting Karen Dahl, a volunteer member of ANZSES and SEE-Change, to replicate the Clean Energy for Eternity model in Canberra with support from local groups.
Conceived three years ago, Clean Energy for Eternity was founded by orthopaedic surgeon Matthew Nott. While reading “The Weathermakers” on the beach, on a day some degrees hotter than usual, he began to think about ways to make changes.
As a volunteer surf lifesaver, his ties to the beach and beach community are evident. In May 2006 he organised 3000 volunteers to create a human sign on Tathra beach spelling out Clean Energy for Eternity. Since then they’ve written more than 40 human signs.
They’ve also raised thousands of dollars. The LifeSaving Energy Project raised $60,000 and donated soar panels to six surf lifesaving clubs. Of significant importance to CEFE are those of the front line, saving lives affected by climate change. This year, they will begin working with rural fire services, providing solar panels for stations and diverting make back into resources.
Their aim is to reduce our energy consumption by 50% and switch to 50% renewable energy by 2020. With Philippa’s assistance, Karen hopes to organise a series of LifeSaving Energy SOS Swims (Swim for Solar), encouraging local community members to seek sponsorship for swimming long distances in Canberra polls over the summer months.
Speaking from the Switch to Green Conference, she said: “We’ve already had some schools come through who are keen to get involved. We want children involved because it is their issue”.
The profits will be used to supply solar panels to the swimming pools, large consumer of energy.
For more information about renewable energy and the Swim for Solar project, visit the CEFE website at www.cleanenergyforeternity.net.au 
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