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Low Waste Living on a Budget with Treading My Own Path's Lindsay Miles
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Low Waste Living on a Budget with Treading My Own Path's Lindsay Miles
The Meeting Place Community Centre245 South TceSouth Fremantle,Lindsay is a Perth based blogger and author who believes in helping people make small changes towards a more sustainable lifestyle. This free workshop will assist participants who want to reduce waste in their lives without having to spend a lot on specific zero waste products by simply avoiding or using what you have around you. There will be time for questions too.
This workshop is free for City of Fremantle residents.
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Worm Farming at home with Shane Hunter
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Worm Farming at home with Shane Hunter
Kelmscott Community Garden55 River RdKelmscott,Hosted by local garden and soil guru Shane Hunter this workshop will help you find out about the magic of worm farming in your own home garden. Compost worms are the ultimate recyclers of nutrients and fertility and in this workshop you will learn how to harness their awesome soil creating abilities to recycle your kitchen scraps into high quality plant food.
Tickets $15
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AUDRC - Sustainability and Cities
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AUDRC - Sustainability and Cities
AUDRC (Australian Urban Design Research Centre)Level 2 1002 Hay StPerth,These short courses seek to convey an understanding of the sustainable development challenges facing humanity in general, and cities in particular. The course defines the key challenges facing the future of cities including energy and climate change, resource depletion, water scarcity; and outlines the suite of initiatives being implemented to manage the transition to sustainable urban development.
An all-day Masterclass (maximum 30), with optional two workshops the following Fridays.
Masterclass Friday 16 July (all day)
Workshop 1 Friday 23 July (all day)
Workshop 2 Friday 30 July (all day)Run by the Australian Urban Design Research Centre at UWA
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Make your own beeswax wraps, hand scrub and more
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Make your own beeswax wraps, hand scrub and more
Success Library11 Wentworth ParadeSuccess,Have you ever wondered what we do with our waste? Where does it go? And how do we lessen all this stuff?
If these questions are on your mind, you’ve come to the right place.
Join waste educator, Peg Davies, with over 13 years experience, to show just how you can avoid and reduce waste by living more lightly.
Here you will learn about the easy and effective ways to save money and lessen your footprint on the planet, with fun activities to create your own waste-free household products.You will be able to make handwash, lip balm and beeswax wraps during this workshop. Please bring along a small jar.
The whole household can join in on this fun and informative workshop.
Tickets $5How to ace your bulk shopping–
How to ace your bulk shopping
Grove Community Centre1 Leake StPeppermint Grove,Want to ditch the excess plastic and packaging this July, but not sure how 🤷♀️🤷♂️🤷♀️?
Join the Western Metropolitan Regional Council and The Storehouse for a morning discussion about all things bulk shopping🛒💚🙌. Enjoy a light morning tea ☕🍰after the discussion, then make your way to The Storehouse Fremantle for tastings, bulk shopping demonstrations and giveaways 🥨✨🎁!
Tickets $6. Registrations essential, book your place now!
Plastic-Free Afternoon Tea–
Plastic-Free Afternoon Tea
Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre555 Leach HwyWinthrop,Plastic Free July is a reminder to us all to reflect on our role in plastic pollution and consider how we can be part of a solution. Join us for a Plastic Free Afternoon Tea to meet like-minded people, enjoy good food and learn from an inspiring guest speaker! Peg Davies will discuss living lightly and facilitate a DIY workshop making simple products from materials you can find in your kitchen cupboards.
This event is aimed at adults however children 8+ also welcome. Tickets $8
Please bring both of the following :
- At least one small jar wide enough to put your hand in and reach the bottom, and
- An old mug or cup (chipped or with no handle even better).If you have any dietary requirements please email environmental.education@melville.wa.gov.au before the 13th of July.
To learn more about Plastic Free July, visit https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/
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Australian Assoc of Environmental Educators Biennial Conference
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Australian Assoc of Environmental Educators Biennial Conference
Mandurah Performing Arts Centre9 Ormsby TerraceMandurah ,Western Australian environmental and sustainability educators, community engagement officers and interested community members are invited to join the WA Chapter of the Australian Association of Environmental Educators (AAEE) this September as they host their 21st Biennial Conference.
Inspired by resilience theory, future’s thinking and Mandurah’s relaxed waterside lifestyle, the overarching conference theme is “Mandjoogoordap: Changing Tides”. Mandjoogoordap means “meeting place of the heart” in Noongar, and changing tides can represent the need for change, the inevitability of change as with natural tidal cycles, or the positive changes resulting from Education for Sustainability efforts.
Sharing the latest in theory, policy and practice, the conference aims to challenge old thinking and foster innovation, collaboration, resilience and genuinely effective action within the environmental education sector.
Hosted in Mandurah, or Mandjoogoordap – meeting place of the heart, the conference includes keynote speakers from Ocean Decade Australia, the Jane Goodall Institute of Australia, Millennium Kids, Common Cause Australia, Gondwana Link and more.
The full program is now available on the website, and Early Bird discounts are available until July 31. Register now and be confident in this changing era that we find ourselves in too, with a full Covid-related refund policy in place, and virtual elements available for streaming (details coming soon).Repair Hub–
Repair Hub
The Hub 61631 Starling StHamilton Hill,The Repair Hub brings together volunteers with a variety of skills to help you repair your broken household items. It could be a ripped skirt you're unsure how to repair; a much-loved toy that has lost a part; a piece of furniture you'd like to restore. Whatever it is, bring it along to the Hub on the third Sunday of the month, and our experts will have their best go at repairing it and share their knowledge with you along the way. Coffee, cake and the sweet sounds of the ukulele are on offer too.
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Plastic Free July Cloth Nappy Workshop
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Plastic Free July Cloth Nappy WorkshopOnline EventGone are the days of pins, soaking or bleaching! Modern cloth nappies are shaped, fitted, washable and reusable. Discover modern cloth nappies and tips on how to make using them easy!
Join Kam Andrews, “The Nappy Guru” for a cloth nappy workshop to learn about using and maintaining cloth nappies. Kam will demonstrate different cloth nappies available and explain the benefits of each.
This event is for residents living in the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council catchment area only - City of Melville, City of Fremantle and Town of East Fremantle. The workshops cover modern cloth nappies for babies, toddlers, children and adults – people of all ages are welcome. - -
Less Stuff: An introduction to decluttering
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Less Stuff: An introduction to decluttering
Online EventFeeling crowded? Not sure why you've got so much stuff and don't know how to make space.
Join Lindsay Miles from Treading my Own Path as she delves into the realm of "stuff", why we have too much of it and the benefits of less. She will dispel the myths of decluttering, the common excuses that hold people back and how if done the right way it can be good for the planet.
So if your keen on letting items go and learning which choices are better for the future click on the link to join the FREE Less Stuff webinar to start your journey.
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Modern Cloth Nappy Workshop
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Modern Cloth Nappy Workshop
Harvest Lakes Community Centre62 Aurora DveAtwell,Are you thinking about using modern cloth nappies and don’t know where to start?
Join Kam Andrews “The Nappy Guru” to learn about using and maintaining cloth nappies. Kam will demonstrate different cloth nappies available and explain the benefits of each.Modern cloth nappies don’t need pins or soaking and come in a lot of fun designs. Making the switch to cloth nappies will reduce the waste you send to landfill and also save you money.
The City of Cockburn is offering residents who attend the workshop up to 60% subsidy to try cloth nappies using the Nappy Guru’s library service, or a $50 rebate for new cloth nappy purchases. This makes it easy for you to switch from disposables and find a cloth nappy that suits the needs of you and your baby. More details of the City's cloth nappy subsidy will be provided at the workshop.
The subsidy and rebate is for City of Cockburn residents only. Please bring proof of address in the City of Cockburn (e.g. Drivers licence, utility bill). The workshop can also be attended by non-residents, however the subsidy and rebate is only available for residents.
Tickets $5
Abundance of Less–
Abundance of Less
Coogee Community Hall19 Arlington LoopCoogee,Join Kim from epoch training for this workshop will explore how to achieve better quality of life with reduced quantity of stuff. Come along and explore:
- Back to basics and living simply. Reduce your clutter and be rewarded with more
- Ingenious ways to be more resourceful – three local case studies
- Embracing the new ‘Share Economy’ – collaborative consumption is the new trend
- Food and fashion – clever ways to make more with less
- Becoming waste-wise – save money, develop creativity and help the planet
- Practising the Japanese art of Wabi-sabi.Tickets $5
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Be a part of Plastic Free July. Make Beeswax food wraps
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Be a part of Plastic Free July. Make Beeswax food wraps
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 coverBeeswax food wraps are so easy to make you can show your friends and DITCH THE PLASTIC!
Tickets $20
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Make Your Own Beeswax Wraps
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Make Your Own Beeswax WrapsCockburn Seniors Centre9 Coleville CrescentSpearwood,Learn how to make beautiful, reusable and natural food wraps in this workshop with the City's Waste Education Team.
Beeswax wraps are a fun, natural, compostable and a safe alternative to plastic cling wrap.
Each participant will come away with two beeswax wraps and the skills to make plenty more.This crafty workshop is suitable for teens and adults.
BYO 100% cotton fabric (0.5m) to use on the day. Everything else will be provided.Tickets $5
City of South Perth Sustainability Series - Healthier Lives–
City of South Perth Sustainability Series - Healthier Lives
South Perth Community CentreSouth TceSouth Perth,Hosted by Gardening Australia’s Josh Byrne & industry colleagues, this three event presentation series provides City of South Perth residents with the latest evidence based approaches to contemporary sustainable design, technology and resource efficient living.
Whether it be your home, garden, street verge or lifestyle, these events are for anyone looking to live better, consume less and promote biodiversity within their neighbourhood.
GREENER SUBURBS - Waterwise & biodiverse verge greening featuring ecologist Mandy Bamford (13th May).
EFFICIENT HOMES - High performance homes featuring sustainable design expert Griff Morris (23rd June).
HEALTHIER LIVES - Practical lessons for sustainable lifestyles featuring the team from Zero Store and Mother (28th July).Free workshops. 6:30pm - 8:30pm.
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How I Live A Plastic-Free Life with Lindsay Miles
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How I Live A Plastic-Free Life with Lindsay Miles
City of Belmont215 Wright StCloverdale,Learn about how to reduce plastic consumption with choices you can make. You'll find out where to start and discover practical tips for anyone starting out on a plastic-free journey.
Free event. Light refreshments will be provided.
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"Cry of the Forests" documentary film produced in WA
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"Cry of the Forests" documentary film produced in WA
Kalamunda Uniting Church7 Heath RdKalamunda,Transition Town Kalamunda, the Uniting Church of Kalamunda and NRPG Bushcarers invites you to a special showing of the new award-winning documentary “Cry of the Forests”, about the our incredibly unique Southwest native forests, by WA Journalist Jane Hammond and the WA Forest Alliance. (Sponsored by Replenish Kalamunda and the Kalamunda Uniting Church)
It reveals the serious damage of logging (including ‘old growth’ forests) and the better alternatives for our Climate, employment and biodiversity. It's riveting and inspirational, and we can send a message to the WA government to preserve it! Trailer at: https://cryoftheforests.com.au/
Please see the documentary, and at the same time you will also support the tireless and dedicated effort which the WA Forest Alliance has put into this for the last 20 years, and our own renowned Journalist Jane Hammond for this amazing film!
Date: Friday 30 July, open at 6:30 for 7:15pm start
Location: Kalamunda Uniting Church hall, 7 Heath Rd, Kalamunda
Purchase tickets at: https://fan-force.com/screenings/cry-of-the-forests-replenish-kalamunda/
Refreshments: Soup + bread roll for a gold coin donation, and snacks/treats for saleCommunity movie night - My Stuff–
Community movie night - My Stuff
Transition Town StirlingMeet Petri Luukkainen, 26. Amidst an existential crisis, he arrives at the idea that his happiness might be found by rebuilding his everyday existence. What does he really need – and what about all that stuff?
The concept: Take all of your stuff into a storage, and bring back only one item per day. The result? An everyday adventure driving him deeper and deeper into the empty spot in his heart. You’re right: this would be borderline insane even without his decision of constantly filming himself.
Buck naked at his flat in Helsinki, it’s another story – not a pretty one but pretty damn fun to watch.
Gold coin donation. Please bring a plate of supper to share
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUBVl0FG6Yc