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Events in June 2022
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Smart Homes Save Dollars!
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Smart Homes Save Dollars!
Online EventShire of Mundaring and Switch Your Thinking invite you to attend this FREE webinar.
If you want to live smarter and learn some simple changes that can make a big difference to your hip pocket, this event is for you!
Energy and water smart homes are not only better for the environment, they can save thousands of dollars on bills and increase the resale value of your home.
A smart home is one that adopts a Goldilocks approach in managing energy and water use in a way that is 'not too much and not too little, just the right amount.'
In this webinar, we'll show you how to identify energy and water guzzlers in your home and the low and high tech solutions that really work.
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Sustainability in the suburbs
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Sustainability in the suburbs
Online EventKeeping animals in our urban setting is a means of reducing organic waste to landfill, providing pest and weed control, fertiliser for the garden whilst bringing you and your family closer to nature. In a well- designed urban garden, you can reduce, reuse and recycle with the help of your animal friends – and don’t forget the worm farm.
Food preserving and seed saving adds another dimension to sustainable living. There is nothing more gratifying that learning about heirloom seed and saving your own seed to use for another season. Of course experiencing the joys of preserving your excess produce or making use of low-cost seasonal food deliciously ‘packed away’ to use for another day!
Learn from an accredited Beekeeper on how to have healthy bees living and working in your garden, best location in your garden, what bees like to feed on, environmental considerations both in Australia and worldwide, techniques for managing bees, regulations both State and Local Government and much more.
This workshop will give you the practical skills; easy to follow recipes and ideas to make you and your family safer and more sustainable with toxic free alternatives. Learn how to make a selection of your own products such as toothpaste, deodorant, hand cleaner and Moroccan lemon preserve!
Get Energy Smart At Home–
Get Energy Smart At Home
Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre555 Leach HwyWinthrop,Learn to better understand your electricity and water usage and some simple changes that can make a big difference.
(Presented by Switch Your Thinking)
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Thinking Green: Rethinking organic waste (Midland)
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Thinking Green: Rethinking organic waste (Midland)
Old Midland Courthouse49 Helena StMidland,During this talk and demonstration, Peg Davies from Lessen with Peg will talk about different composting systems and their maintenance, covering common issues such as pest control, inactivity, smelly composts and more. The session includes practical demonstrations of building and maintaining various systems.
Suitable for all ages.
Please book in as spaces are limited. For all inquiries contact Midland Public Library on (08) 9267 9020.
Grow Your Own Veggies–
Grow Your Own Veggies
Online EventShire of Mundaring and Switch Your Thinking invite you to attend this FREE webinar.
If you want to eat home grown nutritious food, save money and increase food security for your family, this event is for you!
In this webinar, we'll show you how to set up a veggie patch from scratch - from preparing the soil, choosing which veggies to grow (and when), fertilise wisely, deal with pests and much more. By the end of the session you will have all the info you need to get started!
Our presenter Robyn Brown (from Waste is My Resource) has a wealth of gardening experience from a lifetime of following permaculture principles to set up her 5 acre property to grow organic food for her family. Robyn is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others.
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Wooroloo Garden for the Community OPENING & Great Gardens Workshop
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Wooroloo Garden for the Community OPENING & Great Gardens Workshop
Wooroloo HallGovernment RdWooroloo,This FREE workshop is being held to celebrate the OPENING of the Wooroloo Garden for the Community*.
Presented by The Forever Project topics will include:
-firewise home & garden principles
-safe & effective weed control
-garden recovery after fire
-wicking bed gardeningRethinking Organic Waste–
Rethinking Organic Waste
Kulungah-Myah Community Centre136 Le Souef RdKardinya,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!
Find out easy ways to make good compost, and discover how to use meat, fish bones and cheeses in a composting system.
Learn about the ways you can set up and maintain your own worm farm.
Discover bokashi bins, and how they can become part of your home waste management system.
A 3 hour workshop, including afternoon tea run by community educator and sustainability expert Peg Davies. - -
Black Cockatoo Crisis - Fundraising Picnic
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Black Cockatoo Crisis - Fundraising Picnic
Mahara Park85 Aldersyde RdPiesse Brook,SAVE THE DATE: BLACK COCKATOO CRISIS DOCUMENTARY FUNDRAISING PICNIC - SUNDAY JUNE 12th 1-5pm at our beautiful family property MAHARA PARK 85 Aldersyde Rd Piesse Brook.
There will be food and drinks, kids art workshops, real cockatoos, silent auction, live music and more surprises to be announced soon! Stay tuned!
BLACK COCKATOO CRISIS is a documentary being produced and directed by the award winning filmmaker Jane Hammond (Cry of the Forests - A Western Australian Story, A Crude Injustice).
The event is to raise funds to help complete the film as soon as possible. So far they have raised over $55,000 (35%) of the goal of $170,000! Every little bit helps.
Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats. With the loss of the banksia woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain to housing, Carnaby's Black Cockatoos have come to depend on the once vast exotic pine plantations on Perth's northern fringe.
These pine plantations supply up to half of all the food needed to keep the population of Carnaby's alive but these too are disappearing. Within the next two years the remaining 6000ha of pines are slated for clearing leaving the cockatoos facing possible starvation.
Meanwhile the Baudin's Black Cockatoos are literally being shot out of the sky in an unequal battle for food with apple and pear growers in Perth's hills. And the Red Tail Forest Black Cockatoos are under threat from the loss of nesting hollows and declining habitat.
Black Cockatoo Crisis looks at the plight of our special cockatoos and what we can do to stop these threatened species disappearing for ever. The clock is ticking on our black cockatoos. Will we save them in time?
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Making Beautiful Soil
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Making Beautiful Soil
Scarborough Community Hub173 Gildercliffe StScarborough,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. Create your own nutrient rich soil for your plants to thrive!
We will also explore ways to make good compost and discover how to use meat, fish bones and dead cheeses in a composting system.
Reuse, reduce recycle ♻️
Making Beautiful Soil–
Making Beautiful Soil
Scarborough Community Hub173 Gildercliffe StScarborough,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. Create your own nutrient rich soil for your plants to thrive!
We will also explore ways to make good compost and discover how to use meat, fish bones and dead cheeses in a composting system.
Reuse, reduce recycle ♻️
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Cutting Kitchen Waste
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Cutting Kitchen Waste
Online EventShire of Mundaring and Switch Your Thinking invite you to attend this FREE webinar.
If you want to learn how to shop smarter, waste less and save money on food, this event is for you!
In Australia, reducing food waste could save the average family up to $3,800 per year. Research by the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre has identified that nearly 300kgs of food is wasted in Australia per person per year, with household food waste making up 2.5 million tonnes, or about 34% of the overall total amount of food wasted.
Approximately 92% of household food waste still goes directly to landfill, where it anaerobically decomposes, expelling methane – a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Knowing how to reduce food waste is not only more sustainable for the environment, but it will also help you be more efficient with your time in the kitchen too. If we all do our bit, we can have a huge impact on the amount of food wasted and create a more sustainable future. There are many ways to combat food wastage in the home and the key is developing good habits.
Switch your Thinking will discuss strategies to help reduce your food waste through things like meal planning, shopping, using leftovers and composting rather than using a landfill and more!
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Red Hill Waste Management Facility Tour - City of Kalamunda departure
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Red Hill Waste Management Facility Tour - City of Kalamunda departure
Red Hill Hill Waste Management Facility1094 Toodyay RdRed Hill WA ,Join the EMRC's Waste Educators for a FREE tour of the Red Hill Waste Management Facility - Bus departing from the City of Kalamunda
PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE 5 TOURS TO THE RED HILL WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY THIS YEAR, EACH DEPARTING AT DIFFERENT DATES AND LOCATIONS. WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU CLOSELY CHECK THE DETAILS ON THIS EVENT TO ENSURE YOU ARE BOOKING YOUR PREFERRED TOUR. FOR OTHER DATES, PLEASE GO TO OUR EVENTBRITE HOMEPAGE.
This tour provides an informative behind-the-scenes look at EMRC's waste diversion programs, the Landfill Gas & Power Station site, the tip face and Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) recovery. After the site tour, participants are invited to visit Red Hill's Environmental Education Centre for a light morning tea and a look at our waste education activities before returning to the City of Kalamunda.
This tour is for residents in the Cities of Bayswater, Kalamunda and Swan, the Town of Bassendean and the Shire of Mundaring. Tours are suitable for both adults and children (aged 6+).
This tour departs from the City of Kalamunda. Full details including the departure location will be provided to you once you are registered.
For more information contact the EMRC's Waste Education team
Tel: (08) 9424 2222
E-mail: WasteEducation@emrc.org.au
Gardening Workshop Series - Composting for beginners–
Gardening Workshop Series - Composting for beginners
Wilkinson Homestead Museum34 Homestead RdGosnells,Compost does incredible things for your garden. Learn the art of making beautiful compost and how to use all your household scraps and garden waste.
Gardening Workshop Series - Composting for beginners–
Gardening Workshop Series - Composting for beginners
Wilkinson Homestead Museum34 Homestead RdGosnells,Compost does incredible things for your garden. Learn the art of making beautiful compost and how to use all your household scraps and garden waste.
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Repair Lab Melville
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Repair Lab Melville
Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre555 Leach HwyWinthrop,Repair Lab is a free community drop in event to help people fix their belongings and save things from going to landfill. Skilled volunteers will help you with repairs of bicycles, computers, electrical appliances, household items and textiles. If you're unsure, bring it down and we'll see what we can do!
Also at this event:
Buy Nothing Market Day presented by the Brentwood Village Town Team. Bring along your unwanted items to gift, or find a treasure to take home with you!
Neighbourhood Watch Melville promoting public safety and crime prevention products
The Rolling Bean will be providing caffeinated goodness . Please remember to bring your Keep Cup! There will be some reusable mugs on site in case you forget.
House Rules:Only one item is repaired at a time - if you have multiple items, you'll need to join the queue again. This ensures everyone gets to be seen at least once by a Repairer.
Please show your gratitude and respect for our Volunteer Repairer by staying with them for the duration of your repair - have a chat, you might learn a thing or two!
We cannot guarantee a successful repair, however our Volunteer Repairers will do their best to help you free of charge with the time, tools and skills they have available. Advice will be provided if your item is unable to be repaired.
We are unable to accommodate dogs at this event, please leave them at home.