National Bird Week 2018 will take place between Monday 22 October and Sunday 28 October 2018.

The celebration of National Bird Week has its origins back in the early 1900s when 28 October was first designated the first ‘Bird Day’. BirdLife Australia organises and promotes Bird Week with the goal of inspiring Australians to take action and get involved in bird conservation efforts.

To recognise and contribute to the work being done by Birdlife Australia towards recovery of endangered bird populations, Alison Green Designs will make double donations from sales of endangered species bird design T-shirts during Bird Week from $3 to $6.
Double donation applies to all T-shirts on the Endangered Species Page of the website and offer expires midnight Sunday Oct 28th.

Happy Bird Week everyone!

Cheers
Alison

… is going plastic bag free.

The fabulous community I now call home – Mallacoota, on Victoria’s wilderness coast – has adopted the plastic bag free campaign and now that I work and live here, I am keen to follow suit.

I am already offering only paper bags when I sell at the local Artisans & Producers Market but I will continue to use up my existing supply of plastic bags for postal orders until they run out.

If you have received your order in a plastic bag, please reuse it as many times as possible before passing it on or recycling (if possible).
Cheers and here’s to a…

The new studio down here in Mallacoota is going ahead in leaps and bounds. Three walls up and will be moving printing & cutting tables in this week. Exciting!

Max wearing the ‘Repeat Perentie’ design T, available now on rust background… View here…and once again on purple as soon as my squeegee hits the ink! Let me know if you want one & I’ll let you know when it’s available.

The big move south went well and we are slowly settling into our new home and planning the creation of a new workspace – exciting!

It is a delight to be relocated at last to a part of the world that we have always treasured. Can’t believe it when we wake up and look out on beautiful Mallacoota Inlet with Croajingalong National Park all around us to explore.

All the hard work of relocation has been worth it and I’m happy to report that the new stockroom is up and running and orders are being posted out as usual.

Cheers … Alison & Max

…in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.  Albert Einstein

A new financial year draws to a close and exciting changes are afoot.  After 24 years printing and creating in my beautiful big red shed here at Wallaby Gully, Alison Green Designs is on the move…to Victoria’s wilderness coast.

Max and I are moving our home and workshop to the little town of Mallacoota, tucked away in the far south east corner of Australia.

Mallacoota is surrounded by Croajingalong National Park with landscapes so spectacular and environmentally significant, UNESCO nominated it a World Biosphere Reserve in 1977.^[6] The park houses impressive biodiversity, including almost 1,000 native plant species and 315 animal species… so I will have endless inspiration and exploration on my new front doorstep!  Exciting!

The endangered Hooded Plover breeds there and there are seal colonies off the coast so seals often find their way into Mallacoota Inlet to feed and haul out. Birdlife is abundant – a birdwatcher’s heaven.

I have built up stock in preparation for the move so there will be no interruption to orders but may not be able to fill special orders for a while until my new workshop is up and running.

I will announce and post pics of new workshop when operational.

Cheers, Alison 🙂

December 12, 2016

I received this lovely update today about the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Wyndham research centre by Save the Gouldian Fund as a base for scientists and volunteers working in the field there. Click HERE to read.

If you have ever purchased a Gouldian Finch T-shirt from me then you are a fellow donor to this wonderful project.  Thank you.

November Endangered Species Month – where together we made double donations to each species’ recovery fund – raised $396!

Orange-bellied Parrot was the most popular – majority of $$ to Moonlit Sanctuary’s captive breeding program to reinforce numbers in the wild. I also donated $55 of the money raised to the OBP crowdfunding campaign set up by TeamSwiftParrot from ANU to move quickly on setting up nest boxes and monitoring for the next 2 years at the OBP breeding ground in Melaleuca, southern Tasmania.

Other funds have been allocated according to sales of each design.

Donations on ENDANGERED SPECIES DESIGNS page now revert back to $3 as usual.

Thank you to everyone who purchased & contributed through November.  I’m now filling orders with Christmas on the horizon, ensuring they get to you as quickly as possible.

Cheers,  Alison

November is Endangered Species Month at Alison Green Designs.

The first ESM in October 2013 was so successful I decided to maintain the donation program for endangered species designs as a permanent part of my business.

Now with 7 endangered designs in the range and more to come, I’ve created a special Endangered Species Designs Page and during November, $6 will be donated from the purchase of any product on that page i.e. we will match your $3 donation with our $3 and give $6 to the relevant recovery program for each species.

1. Orange-bellied Parrot – donations to Moonlit Sanctuary’s OBP breeding program to enable release of captive bred birds to augment (& hopefully save) the dwindling critically endangered wild population. Read more…
2. Hooded Plover – Birdlife Australia’s ‘Beach Nesting Birds’ program
3. Corroboree Frog – http://www.corroboreefrog.org.au
4. Regent Honeyeater – Birdlife Australia’s ‘Woodland Birds for Biodiversity’ program
5. Gouldian Finches – Save the Gouldian Fund
6. Gould’s Petrel – $$ go to National Parks to help fund nesting boxes on Cabbage Tree Island, Port Stephens, NSW.
7. Kangaroo Island‘s endangered Glossy Black-Cockatoo sub-species.

It didn’t come without its problems but I think the new website is going to be wonderful.

As you can imagine, it has been a herculean task to transfer and cross check every product and its options but we think all is as it was on the old site … and hopefully better!

Please peruse and shop ’til you drop and let me know if there’s anything we’ve missed.

Enjoy

Alison

NEW DESIGN 2016

The critically endangered ‘ORANGE-BELLIED PARROT‘ is one of the rarest birds on the planet. It is one of only 2 migratory parrots in the world, breeding in southern Tasmania & flying across Bass Strait to feed in saltmarshes of Vic & SA coastline.
There are currently less than 50 in the wild. A captive-bred population across a number of facilities provides birds for release and may be an insurance against extinction in the wild.
A very special thank you to photographer Justin McManus for permission to work from his lovely image of an OBP coming in to land… http://justinmcmanus.com.au

$3 from the sale of each T-shirt will be donated to the recovery program dedicated to saving the Orange-bellied Parrot from extinction in the wild.

Available on: ADULT’S, LADIES FITTED & CHILDREN’S T-SHIRTS. Or view all our endangered species designs on the new ENDANGERED SPECIES PAGE.
The Adult’s short & long sleeved shirts are the only style featuring a design on the back.