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Events in August 2020
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All about the Bokashi Composting System
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All about the Bokashi Composting System
Environment House125 King William StBayswater,Learn all about Bokashi from a Bayswater local who makes the bulk Bokashi mix for Environment House. Taeko's enthusiasm for Effective Microbes and using them to compost your waste into a high value product is infectious. Taeko has identified the most effective way to operate a Bokashi Composting System and will also explain how to make your own Bokashi mix, injecting the micro-organisms you need in this anaerobic composting system. Environment House volunteers have already done this workshop and everyone took a lot away from it, even those of us who have used a Bokashi system for many years.
$69 Bokashi Bin Special
On the day workshop participants will be eligible to purchase a Bokashi Bin for the discounted price of $69 (usually $89). Valid on the day of the workshop only.
Tickets $15
Principles of Solar Passive House Design–
Principles of Solar Passive House Design
OnlineDuring this session we will cover the basics of good solar house design using an easy to understand model house. We will cover orientation, ventilation, thermal mass, insulation, window furnishings . . . . and more!
You will then have the opportunity to apply that knowledge to evaluate how solar passive your current home is, and what you can do about it. You will be able to evaluate house plans and maybe make some of your own.
You will leave this session with a list of some simple changes you can make (even many that will cost you next to nothing) to make your home more sustainableThis workshop will be run online using zoom meetings. Once you have enrolled you will receive a link to join us in the days before the workshop - you do not need to have joined zoom to join in!
This workshop is not a webinar, so we will be seeing and interacting with each other. Make sure your audio and video are both working.
The $5 fee reserves your place in this workshop. After the workshop please pay what you feel/ can between $20 and $50.
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Water Harvesting and ReUse
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Water Harvesting and ReUse
OnlineDo you worry about water availability into the future? Would you like to learn more about saving water in your home?
The workshop will cover rainwater and greywater systems, what you need to know to install a bore, and how to install drip irrigation.
Plus of course many easy water saving tips you can apply in your home.
You will see four water systems in action at Ecoburbia.This workshop will be run online using zoom meetings. Once you have enrolled you will receive a link to join us in the days before the workshop - you do not need to have joined zoom to join in!
This workshop is not a webinar, so we will be seeing and interacting with each other. Make sure your audio and video are both working.
The $5 fee reserves your place in this workshop. After the workshop please pay what you feel/ can between $20 and $50.
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Choose to Reuse- The Case of Reusable Coffee Cups webinar
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Choose to Reuse- The Case of Reusable Coffee Cups webinar
OnlineJoin this free online event to learn about current research into promoting the use of reusable coffee cups.
Are you a habitual coffee drinker? Interested in sustainability? Looking to encourage pro-environmental behaviour change? Each year in Australia around 1 billion paper coffee cups are being used to have coffee on-the-go, and 90% of those end up in landfill and oceans. We can significantly reduce the waste from our coffee consumption by choosing to use a reusable coffee cup. However, how many of us own a reusable cup? How often do we forget to bring it? In my research, I am trying to understand how people can use reusable cups more often through forming strong habits, and evolve from a habitual coffee drinker to a habitual reusable cup user.
This free event will be hosted on Zoom and led by Lisa Novoradovskaya (PhD student at Curtin University).
The talk will start at 7pm, however we encourage attendees to log into Zoom between 6.30-6.50pm so that everyone has time for troubleshooting prior to starting. Places are limited, please register for a ticket in order to receive further details on joining this talk.
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East Rockingham Waste to Energy Facility
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East Rockingham Waste to Energy Facility
The Public House263 Adelaide TcePerth,Jason Pugh presents an overview of the technology, history and future opportunities for this energy from waste project.
Jason Pugh has spent the past 10 of his 25-year career in the waste to energy sector. He achieved Australia’s first EPA approval for a large-scale waste to energy project in 2012 and was CEO of New Energy, one of the three developers of the East Rockingham project. In February 2020 he moved into the role of General Manager – Commercial for East Rockingham Waste to Energy.
The $511 million East Rockingham WTE project is a 300,000 (plus 30,000 biosolids) tonne-per-annum energy from waste facility under construction in the Rockingham Industry Zone, south of Perth. On completion, the facility will deliver a cost-effective waste treatment solution and a vital source of dispatchable renewable energy, whilst achieving a 96% diversion of residual waste from landfill.
CIBSE WA are pleased to invite attendees to stay for a drink and networking after the event.
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Beeswax food wraps. Ditch the single use plastic film covering your food
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Beeswax food wraps. Ditch the single use plastic film covering your food
133 Gladstone DveSerpentine,Plastic film (Cling wrap) can no longer be recycled and is clogging up landfill. I regularly find 100-150 pieces of cling wrap in a days waste audit in schools in WA
Beeswax is anti bacterial and waterproof so it makes a perfect wrap to cover food.and a viable, cost effective way to replace plastic film.
Come along to my property, make and take home:
Sandwich Wrap or cover for a roll up wrap
Bowl cover
Beeswax food wraps are so easy to make you can show your friends and DITCH THE PLASTIC!Tickets $15