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Events in March 2022
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Making beautiful soil from food and garden waste
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Making beautiful soil from food and garden waste
Henderson Environmental CentreGroat StNorth Beach,Register to learn practical and easy ways to compost, worm farm and use a bokashi bucket for all spaces from window sills to big backyards.
You can set up your own worm farm and get enough fat worms to start by receiving a subsidy for other options of your choice.
Come and join us to find out easy ways to make good compost and discover how to use meat, fish bones and dead cheeses in a composting system.
Journey To My Ideal Green Home - Understanding Energy Efficiency–
Journey To My Ideal Green Home - Understanding Energy Efficiency
The Hub 61631 Starling StHamilton Hill,As part of the educational project "The journey to my ideal green home", Timo will investigate how our National Construction Code addresses energy efficiency. By focusing on the residential sector, he will explain how the Code verifies energy efficiency while comparing the outcomes with Solar Passive and Passive House principles. He will touch on the 5 core principles of Passive House, a proven standard for constructing energy efficient buildings, and line out why the building’s “outer skin” is of major importance.
About the event:
- This event is recommended for people who wish to build new or want to retrofit.
- This event is free but must be booked, as the places are limited
- The educational project "The journey to my ideal green home" is a series of 8 events provided by Timo Bleeker to inform, educate and inspire the community to design, build and retrofit a greener, more energy efficient, more comfortable and healthier home considering Passive House standard.
- This event is supported by the City of Cockburn.Repair Cafe - Doubleview–
Repair Cafe - Doubleview
Doubleview HouseCnr of Hancock St and Scarborough Beach RdDoubleview,Broken your favourite table / bike / lamp / dress? Dont throw it out - bring it to the Doubleview Repair Cafe where our team of skilled volunteer repairers will do their best to fix it up and give it a new lease of life. Bookings now required for repairs between 10am and 11am, otherwise turn up between 11am and 11.45am and wait for a repairer to become free.
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Journey to My Ideal Green Home – Part 5 - Quizzing our energy efficiency
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Journey to My Ideal Green Home – Part 5 - Quizzing our energy efficiency
The Hub 61631 Starling StHamilton Hill,While enjoying your breakfast, Timo will look into the energy efficiency around the houses we live in. He will compare widely used construction methods he experienced in his 12 years Perth based work experience with the Passive House principles, a proven standard for constructing energy efficient buildings. He will touch on the 5 core principles of Passive House and line out what to focus on to achieve exceptionally low energy using buildings.
About the event:
- This event is recommended for people who wish to build new or want to retrofit.
- This event must be booked, as the places are limited.
- The educational project "The journey to my ideal green home" is a series of 8 events provided by Timo Bleeker to inform, educate and inspire the community to design, build and retrofit a greener, more energy efficient, more comfortable and healthier home considering Passive House standard.
- This event is supported by the City of Cockburn.Tickets $6
All Electric Home–
All Electric Home
Stirling Community Centre7A Kitchener StNorth Beach,Are you looking to create a zero carbon home? Do you drive an electric vehicle or aspire to? This 'all electric home' event is for you!
The City of Stirling is excited to host this topical information session with four engaging and passionate speakers .
The future is electric. Almost everything we do from this point on in the 21st Century will increasingly be based on batteries. Recyclable batteries. Powered by renewable energy in all our uses, bringing ever falling levels of pollution.
Participants will be empowered to make informed choices about their energy use in these changing times.
Rowan Gallagher, Partnerships and DER Acquisition Manager at Synergy, will talk about the benefits of living in an all electric home.
Craig Donahue, Managing Director at Clean NRG, a local business, will share the latest information on solar rooftop systems and home batteries.
Professor Ray Wills, Managing Director of Future Smart Strategies, will discuss WA's inevitable energy transformation and emission reductions.
Local resident, Dr Steffen Zorn, PhD, will discuss the benefits of investing in electric vehicles.You will have the opportunity to view a range of electric vehicles at the end of the session and speak to their owners about their experience.
This event is timely, given the recent announcement that 5,000 free fast chargers are being installed in capital cities across Australia and the WA government has released a map of 45 new electric vehicle charging sites across the state.
We look forward to seeing you there! Tickets are limited so reserve your place. Tickets $5
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Introduction to Permaculture
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Introduction to Permaculture
Sloan's Cottage10 Harman StLeda,Join KiT and Powderbark Permaculture as we explore ways you can use Permaculture design thinking to maximise productivity in your home and backyard systems. This one day course will cover:
-Permaculture design groundwork (the principals and ethics of permaculture)
-Looking at your space with permaculture eyes (designing for productivity)
-How to amplify the magic ingredient in your veggie patch; your soil biology
-Fostering your permaculture learning (further education, resources, networks and your permaculture community)Tickets $26
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Urban Composting Options Workshop
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Urban Composting Options Workshop
Urban Revolution284 Albany HighwayVictoria Park,Learn how to compost using the various options and choose the best composting system for your unique situation at home, for a school or a business. Ask your site-specific questions.
Learn about the Bokashi system, worm farms, worm towers, how to compost pet waste, hot and cold composting methods and how to run multiple systems together.
Find out why composting is an impactful action that we can all do to put our planet first by reducing our food waste in landfill and instead create nutrient rich soil for a thriving environment.
Workshop Details:* 60 min workshop
* Receive a copy of our comprehensive Urban Composting Guidebook - 32 Page, illustrated, full colour booklet printed on 100% recycled paper with vegetable inks
* Q&A over homemade morning tea where you can ask your individual composting questions
* 10% off your composting, garden and eco products in store on the day$25 per person. Pre booking is essential as places are strictly limited.