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Events in September 2020
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“What To Do When The 40 Cent Feed-In Tariff Ends” workshop
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“What To Do When The 40 Cent Feed-In Tariff Ends” workshop
Amherst Village Public Library2 Holmes StSouthern River,The tariff is being phased out this year, does this mean batteries will suddenly become affordable? Come to this workshop and you’ll find out the multiple ways to prepare so you don’t have bill shock.
In this workshop Craig Donohue, from Clean NRG Solar, will explore practical solutions for your home, how the tariff ending will affect your power bills and explain if battery storage is an option.
What will be covered:
-What are the options for your home?
-How will this affect your power bills?
-Battery storage explained – is this a solution?Come along to our free workshop to find out how.
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Repair Cafe Bassendean
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Repair Cafe Bassendean
O2 Bassendean24 Old Perth RdBassendean,SOMETHING BROKEN? NOT WORKING? IN NEED OF REPAIR?
Bring it along to the Repair Café Bassendean held at O2 Café and have it fixed for FREE
Electrical, IT, Textiles & Sewing, Bikes & General Repairs,
* Electrical repairers are very popular so make sure you arrive at the start of the session.
* Only 1 item repaired per person per session (unless we aren’t busy)
* Some items may take longer than one session to fix. If this happens you will need to take your item home at the end of the session and bring it back next session.
* If your item needs a part you will need to purchase the part and bring the item and the part to the next session.
VOLUNTEERS ALWAYS NEEDED, LOVED AND APPRECIATED
Positions available in the above areas and if you don’t have any repairing skills we always need help at check in/ check out, committee, fundraising, posters, advertising, social media. - -
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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A Plan for Planet A - Craig Reucassel: webinar
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A Plan for Planet A - Craig Reucassel: webinar
Online EventAs part of the ABC's Your Planet campaign Craig Reucassel has launched a three-part documentary series called Fight For Planet A.
The Chaser alumni takes aim at large corporate carbon emitters and aims to empower and motivate Australians to take action.
Craig Reucassel will be in conversation with Richie Merzian, director of the Australia Institute's Climate & Energy Program.
Part of the Australia Institute's #EconomicsOfAPandemic webinar series.
FREE, rego essential > https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8815983434107/WN_q8s6HXUoSoGpCKgU1ahMiw - -
Doubleview Repair Cafe
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Doubleview Repair Cafe
Doubleview HouseCnr of Hancock St and Scarborough Beach RdDoubleview,Come along to our fabulous community event - where wonderful volunteers help lovely community members like you - fix something of value to you - and keep it out of landfill. If you can carry it - we will look at it!
This month you have a chance to improve your digital literacy with help to navigate your phone or other device.Repair Cafe Belmont–
Repair Cafe Belmont
Sapore Espresso Bar275 Belmont AveBelmont,What do you do with chair with a broken leg? A belt that needs adjusting? A CD player that's stuck? Blunt knives? Toss it? No Way! Bring it along to Repair Café Belmont.
Hosted at Sapore Espresso Bar, Repair Cafe Belmont is a monthly community event inviting visitors to bring in broken household items and learn to fix them with the help of a volunteer repairer.
Buy a cuppa, tell a story, learn a skill, or just connect. Repairs and repairing advice is free - donations accepted.
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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.comSustainable Energy Now's Job Report–
Sustainable Energy Now's Job Report
Riff45 St George's TcePerth,Come listen to Industry as they talk about new Jobs for WA.
SEN have completed their Sustainable Jobs Report. Join us for a drink and your chance to win a West Coast Eagles signed guernsey on the night. Tickets are limited. Go to bit.ly/sjr2020‘Watson’ A Sustainable Screening for Sea Shepherd–
‘Watson’ A Sustainable Screening for Sea Shepherd
Online EventJoin Sea Shepherd and Fed Square this Sustainable September to follow one man’s journey to protect marine life, with the free online screening of the documentary ‘Watson’ at 7pm on Monday 14 September.
Focusing on the life and mission of Sea Shepherd Founder Captain Paul Watson, and from the same folks that brought us An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary melds contemporary interviews with Captain Paul Watson, archival clips of Sea Shepherd’s dramatic encounters, alongside breathtaking underwater footage.
In addition to the ‘Watson’ screening, there will be a pre-film screening of shorts from the Sea Shepherd archives.
The film will be followed by a LIVE Q&A with Paul Watson himself. Just leave your questions as a comment on our Facebook Event to hear more from this environmental activist and icon.
Sign up today to receive your confirmation link, as well as delicious vegan recipes from Sea Shepherd’s galley so you can enjoy a #MeatFreeMonday at home while watching the film.
Please note, ‘Watson’ contains images that people may find upsetting and is rated M for strong themes. This screening is limited to an Australia audience only.
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The Biggest Little Farm Screening UWA
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The Biggest Little Farm Screening UWA
Baylis Lecture TheatreUWA, Stirling HwyCrawley,Join us for a free screening of The Biggest Little Farm at the Baylis Lecture Theater on Thursday, September 17th. Take a break from the craziness of 2020 and immerse yourself in this uplifting and wholesome film about the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. 🌱🐷🐛
Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals, and an urgent message to reform our thinking, The Biggest Little Farm provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier planet.
We will be inviting speakers from local, environmentally focused not-for-profits to speak about their organisation and how you can contribute to positive change by volunteering. 💕🙌
We will also be collecting gold coin donations on the night for Greenbatch, a local organisation that engages, educates and empowers, Western Australians to reduce plastic pollution and give waste plastic a new life.
Free popcorn provided!
Get your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-biggest-little-farm-documentary-screening-tickets-119390019763 - -
Beeswax Wraps Workshop
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Beeswax Wraps Workshop
Westminster Community Food GardenBalcombe StWestminster,Join Karla Hooper from Earth Girl who will show you everything you need to know to make your own beeswax wraps.
The workshop costs $10 per person which will cover all materials.
This event is generously supported by Wayne Evans - Liberal Candidate for Balcatta.
To register your place, please email wayne.evans@waliberal.org.au.Sustainable House Day–
Sustainable House Day
Online EventSustainable House Day is a nationwide event which gives visitors a chance to check out houses that have been designed, built or renovated with sustainability in mind as well as the opportunity to talk to owners and receive unbiased advice.
This year, Sustainable House Day will be a virtual experience, giving participants a unique opportunity to explore houses across Australia and not just in their neighbourhood!
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Seminar: Speeding up the low carbon transition
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Seminar: Speeding up the low carbon transition
Naragebup Rockingham Community CentreSafety Bay RdPeron,Reversing climate change requires rapid decarbonisation of the economy. So where do we begin? And what does it mean for Freo?
About this Event
Join us for an evening of fantastic presentations on what needs to be done to rapidly and fairly transition Western Australia and the Fremantle community to a low carbon economy.
Our speakers:
Brad Pettitt (Mayor, City of Fremantle)Dr Brad Pettitt was elected as mayor in 2009 and re-elected in 2017. His expertise include climate change, international aid policy and sustainability planning. He was previously the Dean of the School of Sustainability at Murdoch University and was appointed to the Heritage Council of WA in 2014.
Bill Hare (CEO / Senior Scientist, Climate Analytics)
Professor Bill Hare is a climate scientist with thirty years’ experience in the science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, a non-profit research and policy organization based in Berlin, which recently produced a report outlining what actions Western Australia needs to take to play its role in global and national efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Martin Anda (Academic Chair of Environmental Engineering, Murdoch University)
Dr Martin Anda works with PhD students, industry partners and other universities to develop carbon neutral settlements, recycled water systems for urban villages, low cost but effective sanitation solutions for developing countries and co-design of new water supply systems with remote Aboriginal communities.
Vanessa Rauland (CEO, ClimateClever)
Dr Vanessa Rauland is founder and CEO of ClimateClever, an app that helps schools, households and soon businesses to reduce their carbon footprint and save money on utility bills. She is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, where she was a researcher and lecturer in the field of climate change and sustainability for 10 years.
Q&A and other input:
The talks will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session facilitated by Brad Pettitt. We encourage you to email questions beforehand to oneplanet@fremantle.wa.gov.au so the presenters may be better able to address any key issues in their talks.You can also choose to provide other input on the night which will inform our future community engagement on climate change.
Getting to the venue:
North Fremantle Community Centre is located at 2 Thompson Road, North Fremantle, just off Stirling Highway and next door to the North Fremantle Bowling Club.Walk or cycle - The Centre is accessible by walking and cycling.
Public transport - The Centre is located approximately 500m from North Fremantle Train Station (6-7 minute walk), and 300m (4 minute walk) from bus stops on Queen Victoria Street for the 998/999 and 103 buses.
Parking- Limited free parking is available at the Community Centre, with overflow parking available on nearby Hevron Street.
Further information:
You can specify any access requirements when you book your ticket.If you have any other queries about this event you can contact us on oneplanet@fremantle.wa.gov.au
RSVP is essential and numbers are limited due to COVID-19.
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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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Waste-free kitchen with Jane Genovese
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Waste-free kitchen with Jane Genovese
Armadale Library10 Orchard AveAramdale,Australians generate over 3.3 million tonnes of food waste a year - that is the equivalent to filling the MCG 6 times over.
At this workshop you will learn practical strategies to:
Save money on your weekly grocery shop.
Cook healthy meals and streamline the cooking process.
Trolleyology - Understanding supermarket psychology.
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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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Sustainable Shopping Bags
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Sustainable Shopping Bags
Bayswater Library25 King William StBayswater,Decorate your own reusable shopping bag.
About this Event
Make these reusable, fabric shopping bags your own by designing and applying some fabulous artwork.Please book a ticket for the attending adult and child/children.
Also a 10.30am session available.