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Freo Living Smarties - thinking about death with Ava Reyerson
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Freo Living Smarties - thinking about death with Ava ReyersonCome and have a conversation about death - something we rarely talk about
About this Event
Death comes to us all, yet very few of us in Western Society truly know how to have conversations about death and dying that are as natural and normal as conversations about birth and living. The biggest challenge to such conversations is the space and time allowed to share our stories of death and dying, be they sad or joyful, grief-laden or a treasure to remember.Talking about death does not bring it any closer than talking about bees brings a bee sting to your skin! However, sharing our experiences of death does do one miraculous thing...it brings its opposite, life, fully into the here and now.
Talking about death and dying makes life and living all that more precious because we then realise that life is short and we'd better live it now before we die!
Pioneered as Café Mortels by Swiss, Bernard Crettaz in 2009/2010 then, not much later, brought to the UK by Jon Underwood as the Death Café, this is an idea who's time has come! More and more Death Café's are popping up worldwide!
For more information on Death Café's or Jon Underwood please head over to their Facebook Page 'Death Cafe' or their website www.deathcafe.com
You can also find out more about Ava Reyerson of Passionate Life Consulting, the facilitator of this Death Café, by heading over to the Passionate Life Consulting Facebook Page or to the website www.passionatelifeconsulting.com. Ava facilitates other workshops on death, dying, life and living...and where death is her passion!
Contact Ava for more information
0432 996 435
ava@passionatelifeconsulting.com
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Birdata: Become a citizen science superhero
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Birdata: Become a citizen science superhero
Online EventRegardless of whether you have been firmly on the #birdingathome bandwagon or whether the lockdowns and border closures have kickstarted your interest in the birds around your patch, the time you spend out noticing nature is precious. Nobody else sees what you see, so why not put it to use? Your everyday bird sightings are super valuable!
Join this webinar to learn how recording the birds you see (even in your own backyard!) using the Birdata app can help protect and conserve our feathered friends. BirdLife WA's Citizen Science Project Coordinator Dr Tegan Douglas will show what we can discover when we pool our knowledge through citizen science, and how easy it is to get involved!
Join us on zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84293381799
Supported by Lotterywest.Living Soil Exposed - Microbes and Organic Gardening–
Living Soil Exposed - Microbes and Organic Gardening
Roleystone Family Centre19 Wygonda Rd, RoleystoneRoleystone,Soil microbes are essential to healthy soil and healthy soil is essential to healthy plants - this is the International Year of Plant Health. Let's get acquainted with our wonderful living soil in this interactive session.
Ellen Walker and the EarthWhile team, love to share their enthusiasm to develop knowledge about the microbes in soil food webs and their importance in growing good food. Microbes build soil structure, retain moisture, make nutrients available, resist pests and diseases and break down toxins. How? Let’s find out. They will show people how to identify the soil food web microbes when they look at a sample of soil through a microscope (which they will bring along); discuss the conditions and foods the different microbes like, and how we can use that information to influence the types of plants we want to grow. Ellen and the team are keen to pass on this information so people can develop and nurture their own healthy soil.
They do this through onsite consultations, workshops, and presentations to public groups. Ellen has been a guest speaker at numerous garden events, a guest of Sabrina Hahn and Deryn Thorpe on their respective podcasts, and along with the EarthWhile team, was awarded Peel ESTEAM 2019 Champions and named as a finalist in the Science Communicator of the Year. They feel privileged to have their work acknowledged by a range of academics, sustainability 'experts', ecologists and the people who have participated in their presentations and workshops.The meeting is on September 9th at 7:00 pm in the Roleystone Family Centre, 19 Wygonda Rd, Roleystone. Entry $3. Enquiries to Lisa 9399 2312. PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME OF 7pm
Find us on Facebook Roleystone Organic Growers
To be added to email list roleystoneorganicgrowers@gmail.com - -
Living Smart with Ecoburbia - online
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Living Smart with Ecoburbia - online
Ecoburbia16 Livingstone StBeaconsfield,Living Smart is now online and open to everyone!
Have you wondered how you can make your life more sustainable and resilient? Do you want to respond positively to major world issues? Do you want to meet people who care about the earth like you do?Then this Online Living Smart course is for you!
Living Smart is a 7-week course that will inspire you to make sustainable changes in your own home with your family, and in your wider community. The course is designed with the needs of participants in mind and includes topic such as Waste, Living Simply, Power, Water, Gardening . . . and more. The actual course content will be determined by the participants so you will get the opportunity to explore what you are interested in. The course is very interactive (even online) - you will be learning from your fellow participants as well as the facilitator.
For more details about Living Smart watch the attached video or check out the website - www.livingsmart.org.au
This course will be facilitated by Shani Graham from Ecoburbia. Go to www.ecoburbia.com.au for more details.
PLEASE NOTE This is a seven week online course (using zoom) that will run on a Monday night from 5.00 until 7.00pm (Perth time) the course starts on September 14th and runs until October 26th. The course is open to anyone, anywhere.
If you have not used zoom before will send out an email with instructions so you are ready to go for the first class - it's easy!
The cost for this course is $100. Payment plans and alternative currency arrangements are possible
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For more information call Shani on 0417 941 991 or email her ecoburbia@gmail.com - -
Composting 101
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Composting 101
Ecoburbia16 Livingstone StBeaconsfield,Come and join us to learn everything compost!
During this session you will learn the magic compost song, find out what ingredients to use in your batch and in what ratios. You will see a real compost in action and find out what to do day by day to get your compost really cranking.
Add those ingredients, work your magic and you could have rich ready compost in six weeks!
You will also have the opportunity to see a hot composting system and even some humanure composting!
This workshop will be held at Ecoburbia
The $5 registration fee enrolls you in this course. After we have finished you will be asked to pay in keeping with your circumstances from $20 - $50.
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Nyit - Britta's Tiny House
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Nyit - Britta's Tiny House
Ecoburbia16 Livingstone StBeaconsfield,Nyit is Noongar for little and we invite you to come and see the Ecoburbia and hear from Britta about it's development
About this Event
Britta is a year 12 student at the Waldorf Steiner School. For her final year major project Britta decided she wanted to look at women in non traditional trades and the barriers they faced in their work.And what better way to do that than to work together on a project?
Nyit was built by female tradies (whenever possible ) in particular the two carpenters Charlotte and Aly, electrician Saf and project manager Emily. (any males on site had to wear a skirt!)
During this talk Britta will outline some research about women in the building trades, share some of the things she learnt "on the job", both in talking to the "ladie tradies" and on the tools, and make some comments about ways forward for women in these industries.
And then - everyone can have a look at the final result - Nyit!
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Growing Your Own Food - the Basics
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Growing Your Own Food - the Basics
Ecoburbia16 Livingstone StBeaconsfield,Are you keen to trying growing veggies in your garden?
Then come and share with Shani Graham from Ecoburbia who has been eating from her garden for more than 15 years.
This workshop will look soil preparation, planting seeds and seedlings, watering options, mulching your garden and what to grow when. It will be hands on - so bring a hat, some gloves and don't wear your best clothes!
You will spend time in a great veggie garden and can ask lots of questions.
You will leave with everything you need to know to enjoy a bumper crop this season.
The $5 registration fee enrolls you in this course. After we have finished you will be asked to pay in keeping with your circumstances from $20 - $50.
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Australian Assoc of Environmental Educators virtual conference
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Australian Assoc of Environmental Educators virtual conference
Online EventInspired by moving local examples, resilience theory, and Mandurah’s relaxed waterside lifestyle, the Australian Association of Environmental Education's WA Chapter brings you Mandjoogoordap: Changing Tides. This one day virtual conference aims to introduce some of the innovative, practical and effective tools to help us “change the tides” of environmental and sustainability education.
Delegates will be immersed in the latest thinking with sustainability professionals and educators from all sectors, including education, government, NGOs and community groups. In lieu of bringing you a full three day conference this year, the Conference Committee is excited to be able to bring you a teaser to the full conference (now planned for September 28 – October 1 in 2021) on Wednesday 30 September, 2020. Learn about the adaptive cycle from Marianne Krasny and hear insights from two citizen science programs helping with bandicoot conservation, amongst other topics. The important youth voice is also heard from through Millennium Kids and their One Thousand Actions for the Planet. Registrations and the full program are now available.