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Events in February 2021
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Living Smart (7 week workshop series)
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Living Smart (7 week workshop series)
Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre555 Leach HwyWinthrop,Join Shani from Ecoburbia for an interactive, hands on and practical Living Smart course that encourages real sustainable lifestyle change.
7 WEEK WORKSHOP SERIES
The Living Smart course is a behaviour change program that helps build sustainable communities. This workshop series will provide participants with the skills and knowledge to take action in their own homes to improve their quality of life and reduce their environmental impact
Course components include cooperative learning opportunities, group activities, demonstrations, hands on activities, short talks, guest presentations, outings and appropriate movies.
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Thinking Green: Get Energy Smart at Home (Ballajura)
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Thinking Green: Get Energy Smart at Home (Ballajura)
Ballajura Public LibraryKingfisher Ave & Illawarra CrescentBallajura,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. Find out how to identify what’s using the most energy and water in your home. Participants will also receive a small gift.
Free workshop. Please book in as spaces are limited. For all inquiries contact Ballajura Public Library on (08) 9207 8686.
Living Smart 7 Week Course–
Living Smart 7 Week Course
Cambridge Administration Building1 Bold Park DriveFloreat,Are you interested in creating a simpler, healthier and more sustainable lifestyle and reducing your waste?
The 7 week course provides participants with the skills and knowledge to take action in their own homes to reduce their waste, improve their quality of life and reduce their environmental impact.
The course consists of ten key modules:
Water
Power
Waste
Simple Living
Gardening for Food
Transport
Healthy You
Gardening for Biodiversity
Healthy Homes
CommunityThe course includes a relevant and exciting outing as chosen from a list of options by the group.
Living Smart is a unique course. Rather than just developing an awareness of issues and hoping people change their behaviour, Living Smart is based on sound methods to encourage behaviour change in individuals.
These methods include in-class goal setting and regular sharing of intended and achieved actions building commitment to act and positive role modelling.The ten topics of Living Smart mean it has a wide breadth, so participants leave with a very broad understanding of what it means to be sustainable and behaviour change can readily spillover from actions from one topic to another.
Cost $80
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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.Community Repair Cafe Mundaring–
Community Repair Cafe Mundaring
Mundaring Wellness Centre16 Craig StMundaring,Come join us for a fun and relaxed day with crafters, sewers, woodworkers, and techies alike, while enjoying a special deal on a coffee and cake from Mojo’s Cafe.
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Doubleview Repair CAFE
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Doubleview Repair CAFE
Guide Hall228 Hancock StDoubleview,Our first Repair Cafe for 2021. 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!
Living Smart Course - Sustainable Food Gardens–
Living Smart Course - Sustainable Food Gardens
Warrandyte Park Clubroom89 Warrandyte RdCraigie,Join the team from Ecoburbia to learn about sustainable food gardening at home.
PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A FOUR PART COURSE. ONE SESSION IS HELD ON THE LONG WEEKEND (FEB 27th)
Join the team from Ecoburbia to learn about sustainable food gardening at home at our four part course with workshops covering:
-Making and using great compost
-Making and filling a garden bed
-Basic food gardening
-Preserving the harvest.The course includes hands-on learning and a trip to the Duncraig Edible Garden.
Cost is $15 ($5 for Concession) and registrations are essential as places are limited.For further information contact Ecoburbia on 0417 941 991 or ecoburbia@gmail.com
Green Streets–
Green Streets
Alf Faulkner HallCnr Mary Cres & Ivanhoe StEden Hill,Please come and join Greening Australia and your local council members at Alf Faulkner Hall - corner of Mary Crescent and Ivanhoe Street, Eden Hill. Learn about urban heat islands and how native verge gardens can help to decrease temperatures in your neighborhood, then redesign your own!
Free afternoon tea is provided. To get the most out of this event, please bring a photo or sketch of your own verge garden, or you can use the templates we have available.
Although this is a free event for adults, children are more than welcome to attend.
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Modern Cloth Nappy Workshop
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Modern Cloth Nappy Workshop
Byford Hall9 Clifton StByford,Join Switch your thinking and the Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale for this free, relaxed, family-friendly workshop, and learn about modern cloth nappies from birth to toilet training.
Presented by Kam Andrews - engineer, scientist and now “The Nappy Guru” through extensive research and practical experience with her youngest in cloth nappies from birth.
This is a great opportunity to:
-Find out what you need to get started,
-Touch and feel various styles and brands of cloth nappies
-Practice fitting nappies on demo dolls
-Learn how to effectively wash nappies and deal with poo
-Talk to like-minded parents
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Cleaning With Chemistry @ Clarkson Library
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Cleaning With Chemistry @ Clarkson Library
Clarkson Library27 Ocean Keys BlvdClarkson,Cleaning with Chemistry will arm you with a basic understanding of household science and a spray bottle full of natural alternatives to toxic and expensive cleaners.
Make your own citrus cleaner to take home!
Bookings Essential.
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Sustainable Living Fete
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Sustainable Living Fete
Halidon Primary School38 Halidon StKingsley,Halidon Sustainability Fete has been organised for the families of the school and wider local community to strengthen community connections and contribute to the liveability of an area.
The purpose of the fete is to bring together the school community and wider community and educate them in relation to renewable and sustainability technologies and practices in a hands on fashion. The public will be able to interact with each other and support small businesses who have suffered greatly since the pandemic. The fete will offer a host of free events such as displays, seminars/ guest speakers, interactive activities, food and music and great activities for kids.Cambridge Repair Lab–
Cambridge Repair Lab
Cambridge Administration Building1 Bold Park DriveFloreat,Repair Lab is a community initiative to help people fix their belongings and save things going to landfill.
Skilled volunteers will help you with repairs of clothing, textiles, bikes, furniture, jewellery, electronics which run on batteries (below mains power), general household items. We'll have computer triage and advice on creating an eco-friendly home. If you're unsure, bring it down and we'll see what we can do!
Repair Lab is a free, family friendly community event for people to bring along their broken items to be fixed, with the help of our skilled volunteers.
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Thinking Green: Solar, Batteries and What's New (Caversham)
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Thinking Green: Solar, Batteries and What's New (Caversham)
Caversham Community Centre135 Suffolk StreetCaversham,Join solar energy experts Clean NRG Solar and learn all about the latest solar innovations!
Are you interested in getting solar panels and/or battery storage, or do you already have a solar system and want to know how to get the most of out of it?
Join solar energy experts, Clean NRG Solar, to learn about what to look for when considering a solar PV system, if home batteries are a smart option for you and how changes to the feed-in tariff will affect you.
Participants will receive a small gift or go into the draw to win a door prize.
Free workshop. Please book in as spaces are limited. For all inquiries contact Aimee Kontor, Sustainable Environment Officer, on 9267 9282 or email aimee.kontor@swan.wa.gov.au.
Please note that this is a program for adults and teenagers 14+.