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Events in March 2021
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Get energy smart at home
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Get energy smart at home
Town of Mosman Park1 Memorial DveMosman Park,Explore tips to help you cut your energy use and save you money. Understand your electricity and water usage better and learn some simple changes that can make a big difference.
Join us in the Councillor lounge at the Town of Mosman Park Administration Building to find out how to identify what’s using the most energy and water in your home.
This free workshop is suitable for adults and children aged 14 and over.
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Waste Watchers Workshop - Create Less Waste
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Waste Watchers Workshop - Create Less Waste
Cambridge Administration Building1 Bold Park DriveFloreat,Let's get clear on what goes in which bin!
This short course is open to all residents who want to reduce their waste ♻️💚🙌.
We'll get clear on waste terminology, what goes in which bin, where waste goes once it's picked up from your verge, how to recycle things that can't go in your household bin, what you can do to drop a bin size and much more!
💰Cost: $5 + Eventbrite Booking Fee
☕ Food and drink provided.This workshop is available for WMRC member and participating council residents of Cambridge, Claremont, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove, and Subiaco as well as non-member council residents.
Places limited, book now!
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Talking Rubbish
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Talking Rubbish
Armadale Library10 Orchard AveAramdale,At this free session presented by Switch Your Thinking, you will discover ways to reduce household waste and have all of your recycling and waste questions answered.
How to sort your waste & recycle right–
How to sort your waste & recycle right
Mirrabooka Library21 Sudbury RdMirrabooka,At this free session presented by the City of Stirling Waste Education Officer, you will discover what happens to your household waste and have all of your recycling and waste questions answered.
This is a practical workshop explaining how the City deals with rubbish collected from your verge. It's designed to teach our residents the correct way to sort waste and how to minimise your carbon footprint.
Fauna Foray at Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary–
Fauna Foray at Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary
Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary4360 Lilydale RdChidlow,Join us for an evening talk & spotlight tour with Australian Wildlife Conservancy ecologists and see the bush come alive with small mammals!
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) is the largest private manager of land for conservation in Australia, protecting endangered wildlife across 4.6 million hectares in iconic regions such as the Kimberley, Cape York, Lake Eyre and the Top End.
The AWC story began here in the Shire of Mundaring, with the purchase of what became Karakamia Sanctuary, where important populations of threatened and declining mammals such as Tammar Wallabies, Woylies and Quenda now thrive.
The fauna forays involve walking in the bush at night on uneven and sometimes rocky trails, please refer to the walk info below to make sure it is suitable for you. Light refreshments will be provided at the start of the evening. Numbers are limited so please register your attendance to avoid missing out!
What to bring: insect repellent, long sleeve top and trousers, sturdy covered shoes for walking and hiking poles if required. Bring a jumper in case it gets cool. Bright spotlights with red filters are carried by the guides to point out animals and light the path. You may wish to bring a small torch of your own to help find your footing along the tracks at night (please no head torches).
Schedule
5.45pm – Arrive and registration
6.00pm – Welcome & presentations, light refreshments
6.30pm – First fauna foray walk begins (approx 2 hours)
6.40pm – Second fauna foray walk begins (approx 2 hours)
6.50pm – Third fauna foray walk begins (approx 1 hour 15 mins)Choose a walk that suits you! More details on each walk will be provided on the night.
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Community Tour: Regional Resource Recovery Centre
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Community Tour: Regional Resource Recovery Centre
Regional Resource Recovery Centre350 Bannister RdCanning Vale,Would you like to learn a bit more about how you can make a difference to the environment by placing your waste in the correct bin?
At the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) in Canning Vale, you can come and see exactly what happens to your waste.
At this free community tour you will visit:
• The Materials Recovery Facility, where recyclables are separated, baled and sold for reuse
• The Green Waste Facility, where garden waste is turned into mulch
• The Waste Composting Facility, so you can learn how the general waste bin was turned into compost and what now happens with our FOGO materials
• The Education Centre, where we have lots more resources to help you to reuse, reduce and recycleOpen to all residents from the Perth metropolitan area and beyond.
Bookings essential! Please complete the booking form and email to tours@smrc.com.au
NOTE: Participants must be minimum 6 years of age and wearing enclosed shoes
DIY Urban Fauna Shelters Workshop–
DIY Urban Fauna Shelters Workshop
Perth City Farm1 City Farm PlaceEast Perth,Learn how to create habitat for native pollinators and pest controllers such as native bees, wasps, skinks and geckoes using recycled and natural materials. After a short presentation about the importance of urban wildlife, let your imagination go wild as you help create shelters to support creatures at City Farm (part of our 'Nature in the City' project) and also make one to take home.
This is a workshop designed for adults, but children over the age of 12 are welcome to buy a ticket and join their parents.
Tickets $10Please bring any small, recycled container such as an old ceramic or plastic pot, a clean can, or small wooden box that you would like to upcycle into a fauna shelter to install in your backyard, and a water bottle.
Waste Watchers Workshop - Create Less Waste–
Waste Watchers Workshop - Create Less Waste
Grove Community Centre1 Leake StPeppermint Grove,Let's get clear on what goes in which bin!
This short course is open to all residents who want to reduce their waste ♻️💚🙌.
We'll get clear on waste terminology, what goes in which bin, where waste goes once it's picked up from your verge, how to recycle things that can't go in your household bin, what you can do to drop a bin size and much more!
💰Cost: $5 + Eventbrite Booking Fee
☕ Food and drink provided.This workshop is available for WMRC member and participating council residents of Cambridge, Claremont, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove, and Subiaco as well as non-member council residents.
Places limited, book now!
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Night Stalk
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Night Stalk
Canning River Eco Education CentreCnr Kent St & Queens Park RdWilson,Join the Canning River Regional Park Volunteers and Kanyana for a Night Stalk in the Regional Park. Spot some creepy crawlies hiding in the bush and maybe see some microbats leaving their roosts.
The Canning River Regional Park Volunteers have been researching bats in the Regional Park, come along to find out what they have discovered. Learn about the other inhabitants of the Park who also venture out after dark.
This free session will include a small talk then a walk in the Park. Please wear closed in shoes and bring a torch.
Suitable for all ages.
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Creating a wildlife-friendly garden
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Creating a wildlife-friendly garden
Stirling Community Centre7A Kitchener StNorth Beach,Your garden is your sanctuary, but it is a sanctuary for wildlife too?
Join gardening expert Lisa Passmore for tips on how to attract and retain wildlife to your garden, including :
- selecting plants which provide food for wildlife all year round
- creating habitat in your garden where critters can live and feel safe
- incorporating water into your garden to attract frogs, beneficial insects and birds
- how to control pests and diseases while avoiding the use of harmful chemicalsWhether you are starting a new garden from scratch or are looking for a few tips on how to tweak your existing garden, this workshop will be of value for anyone who wants to support biodiversity and share their garden with our feathered, furred, scaly and crawly friends.
Wildlife Photography Essentials–
Wildlife Photography Essentials
Team Digital5 Coolgardie TcePerth,If you have a passion for the great outdoors and would like to know how to photograph animals in their natural habitat (or even in the zoo), then this event is for you!
"Wildlife Photography Essentials" will take you on a journey through the mindset of a wildlife photographer. This is a great introduction to the world of wildlife photography: you'll learn the best lenses and equipment you need, how best to use them, the "pro secrets" of taking great images of wild animals and tips for working in a natural environment and becoming familiar with the behaviour of the birds and animals you intend to photograph.
We'll start with an information-packed seminar where wildlife photographer, Craig Franke, will show you how to think and shoot like a wildlife photographer. You'll learn techniques, settings, trouble shooting and strategies for photographing wildlife, including birds.
This is followed by a field trip to a nearby nature reserve where you will have the opportunity to practice what you have learned. Craig will be available to answer your questions or assist you if you ask for help or guidance during the field trip.
Find your wild side (and the wildlife photographer in you) in this workshop! Places in this mini workshop are limited to 16, so book early to avoid missing out.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
-Your interchangeable lens camera or fixed lens superzoom cameras (80x or more magnification eg. Nikon P1000).
-A telephoto lens. We recommend at least a 70-300mm lens, but suggest longer lenses such as 100-400mm or 150-600mm.
-Optional: A monopod.
-Notebook and a penLevel: Beginner-Intermediate
Cost: $120
Maximum participants: 16Course pre-requisites: You need to be familiar with key concepts in photography, including Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and Depth of field. You will also need a telephoto zoom lens - we recommend at least at least a 70-300mm lens, but recommend longer lenses eg. 100-400mm or 150-600mm).
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Recycling Facility Tour
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Recycling Facility Tour
Regional Resource Recovery Centre350 Bannister RdCanning Vale,Have you ever wondered what happens at a Recycling Facility 🤷♀️♻️🤷♂️ ?!
Join us and find out on a tour of the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC) Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) for Global Recycling Day ♻️🌏!
On the tour you will get to see:
🗑 The Waste Composting Facility, so you can learn how the general waste bin was turned into compost and what now happens with Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) materials.
🌱 The Green Waste Facility, where garden waste is turned into mulch.
♻️ The Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), where recyclables are separated, baled and sold for reuse.
🍎 The Education Centre, where there are lots more resources to help you to reduce, reuse and recycle.The tour involves spending approximately 30 minutes walking outdoors 🌞 on bush paths around the site. A reasonable level of physical fitness is required. Kids (older than 6 years old) are welcome on the tour, they must be registered for own ticket and be accompanied by an adult. Closed footwear is essential for all. We strongly recommend you wear long pants, a hat, sunscreen and bring a water bottle.
This is a free event ♻️💚🙌. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and a light morning tea will be provided at the end of the tour.
Wear: Fully enclosed footwear 👞, long pants 👖, hat and sunscreen.
This tour is available for WMRC member and participating council residents of Cambridge, Claremont, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove, and Subiaco.
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How to sort your waste & recycle right
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How to sort your waste & recycle right
Inglewood Library895 Beaufort StInglewood,At this free session presented by the City of Stirling Waste Education Officer, you will discover what happens to your household waste and have all of your recycling and waste questions answered.
This is a practical workshop explaining how the City deals with rubbish collected from your verge. It's designed to teach our residents the correct way to sort waste and how to minimise your carbon footprint.
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Dr Dolittle Goes Bush
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Dr Dolittle Goes Bush
Kalamunda,Walk 2km to a typical Bibbulmun Track campsite to meet the friendly native creatures from Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre.
Ideal for kids 5 – 12 yrs. Watch their faces light up as they interact and learn about our native animals.
Return following the Waugal trail markers at dusk.
Max 2 kids per adult. Max two adults per child. 1hr from Perth. Not suitable for pushchairs.
Don't forget your torch!
All children must be accompanied by an adult.Tickets $20/$40 (adults/children)
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Bushcarers Kalamunda Speaker and Annual General Meeting
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Bushcarers Kalamunda Speaker and Annual General Meeting
St Barnabas Church Hall (opposite Kalamunda Hotel)40 Railway RdKalamunda,Please join us for our 2021 Annual General Meeting, followed by our speaker, Tim MacNay of the Environmental Defenders Office, who will help us to understand how our environmental protection laws do and don't work, and what may happen to improve this.
We hope to see you, and please RSVP.
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DIY Bokashi Bucket - Sustainability Workshop
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DIY Bokashi Bucket - Sustainability Workshop
Brockman Community House27 Hull WayBeechboro,A bokashi bin is a small composting bucket designed to transform your food waste into nourishing compost and soil builder.
All attendees will be making a Bokashi bucket to take home.
Creche available (bookings essential)
$7.00 per person
Phone: 9279 1588
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Compost & Worm Farm Workshop
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Compost & Worm Farm Workshop
West Leederville Community Garden78 Cambridge StWest Leederville,Want to manage your food waste at home and nourish your garden at the same time? Learn how to make the most of those food scraps while trimming your bin!
Join WMRC Waste Educators Nabilla Antipas and Laura Monisse and compost guru Peg from Lessen with Peg for this Compost & Worm Farm Workshop. We'll take a tour of West Leedy Community Garden and go through different solutions for managing organic waste at home and show you how to set up low cost system for yourself.
Find out how you can receive $50 toward the purchase of a compost bin, worm farm or Bokashi bin after attending this workshop. This is a limited offer for WMRC Member Councils and Town of Cambridge residents only. Ts & Cs apply.
Bookings are essential for this event! Light morning tea provided following the workshop. Register through Eventbrite.
For ticket purposes, Member Council residents include: Cambridge, Cottesloe, Claremont, Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove and Subiaco. All other council residents please book a non-member council general admission ticket.
Thanks and we'll see you there!