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May 3, 2010 - 10:41 — OteshaOffice

So much news to tell!! Where do we start? The best news is of course the 8 strong cycle tour crew have successfully completed the East Coast cycle from Melbourne to Sydney!! Woohoo!! The crew cycled an amazing 1600km in total and along their cycle route performed at 16 schools and community groups to a total of 1138 students!   WOW – HOW INSPIRATIONAL!   Read more about the end of tour welcome to Sydney and fundraising party below! And if that hasn’t wet your whistle – we also have some news about some other inspiring groups - one that will cycling around THE WORLD and looking for crew and volunteers! The other, one of Othesha's partner organisations, who are lobbying the Federal Government to make sustainability a key school curriculum topic! Go Youth Power!!   Tour Fundraising finale party Our new home for at Loophole Bike the Earth- looking for support in riding, everything! AYCC Greening Our Curriculum   Tour A big heartfelt cuddle filled congratulations goes out to our 2010 tour crew - Rachael, Tim, Matt, Tony, Marieke, Anja, Alice, and Kellie! You made it! YAY!   Yes, that’s right! Our funky East Coast Tour Crew made its sustainable human powered way across forested mountain ranges and along beautiful sparkling coastlines, all the way to hip and happening Sydney!   We met them at the biggest landmark we could think of for a picnic lunch welcome party on the shores of the magnificent Sydney harbour overlooking the Opera House and Harbour Bridge! It was great to see their happy smiling faces again after 8 weeks on the road and gee did they have some stories to tell! You can catch up on all the happenings that happened by going to their tour blog and reading all their wonderful stories and adventures had along the way! It’s well worth the read! http://www.otesha.org.au/biketours/2010/southcoasttour/blog   Fundraising Finale Party To celebrate in style Otesha, with the wonderful help of Ollie Cashman and the Workshop Crew, organized a fun filled Recycled Fashionista’s Party at The Red Rattler! There were some amazing performances by Dave Carr and Dave Bova, Matt Ellis from The Dark Ales, Doc Jones and the Lechery Orchestra, Kate from Zinnia Blue as well as a spectacularly entertaining performance from the crew themselves! They wrote and performed some amazing songs whilst on tour and we now have the beginnings of an Otesha Tour Album! (Watch this space!) We raised a total of $760.80 to go toward organizing the next tour!! Well done guys! What an amazing effort!     Big thank-you’s go out to all the volunteers and helpers on the night and leading up to the event as well as the many businesses that donated items for our raffles including -  

And the biggest hugs go to Naomi, Dylan, Ollie and The Warehouse for just being amazing and generous and did we mention amazing?!! We love you guys!   Our new home at Loophole Our new office space, come and see us. Loophole Community Centre is generously allowing us to use their space as we had to move out of the Melbourne office.   Loophole is a collectively run, autonomous community centre where you can get involved in the Food Not Bombs Street Kitchen, explore the library for sustainability focused books, or join an inspired and creative group. They also have community events and free bike workshops! Awesome! And not to mention - you can come and see us! Loophole is located at 670 High St Thornbury. We will be here on Mondays and Wednesdays. Come past and say hi!   http://www.loopholecommunitycentre.org/   Bike the Earth- looking for support in riding, everything! So if you thought Otesha was the only group of inspired cyclists – you would be amazed to hear about Bike the Earth – a project that will be cycling around the entire globe, starting in New Zealand at the beginning of June 2010 and will cross four continents over three years, through Asia, Europe and the US, ending in Brazil in December 2012!!   Traversing the globe, six cyclists will (amongst other things like cycling thousands of kms!) be drawing the world's attention to new sustainable solutions and ideas being realised in local communities and connect communities with resources, expertise and technology to be able to respond to changes. Go Bike the Earth! Woot woot! If you and or anyone you know is inspired by the ride on any level, for any length of time and the possibility that it presents then please contact them – they are waiting to hear from inspired amazing people like yourselves. http://www.biketheearth.org.uk/Biker the Earth (Facebook)

AYCC Greening Our Curriculum We wanted to tell you a little bit about the Green Our Curriculum Campaign that the AYCC, Kids Teaching Kids and Cool Australia are running in joint partnership. We are in perfect alignment with their values and will be openly supporting the campaign. The main objectives are: 1.      To integrate sustainability into all areas of the National Curriculum.  2.      To include a key learning area in the new curriculum which specifically addresses climate change, our environment and sustainability.   If you would like to sign the petition please check out their website – http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5594/t/5302/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=718     We hope you have had your sustainable fill of Otesha news and are just as inspired as we are by our amazing crew and the other inspired people out there really and truly being the change they want to see in the world!   Peace, smiles and sustainability in action!