Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Speed Date a Sustainable Designer
Posted in Events by sashashtargot on January 30th, 2012
| 19 February , 2012 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
Are you renovating or building? Do you have plans and ideas you’d like to discuss with green architects or building designers? The Alternative Technology Association (ATA) would like to invite you to Speed Date a Sustainable Designer.
When: Sunday 19th February
Time: 1-3pm
Where: The Atrium, Federation Square, Melbourne
Speed Date a Sustainable Designer brings together Australia’s leading sustainable architects and building designers so that you can discuss your plans in a relaxed ‘no obligations’ environment.
What to Bring
Bring your sketches, plans and photographs on your tablet, laptop or good old hard copies! The designers will offer solutions, ideas and alternative viewpoints.
You can watch the short YouTube video from the last event here: http://bit.ly/gi1vnt
Supported by bankmecu
A free event. Limited spots available! Bookings are essential. Go to sdsd.ata.org.au
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Walking Maps for the Holidays
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on December 23rd, 2011
From the Victoria Walks December Newsletter:
How about letting your own two feet take you on a few adventures these holidays? There’s no better way to get the wind in your hair while taking a sticky beak at what’s going on around you.
If you’re heading out of town:
- Kilcunda wildflower walk (East Gippsland near Wonthaggi)
- Fairhaven to Aireys Inlet beach walk (Great Ocean Road)
- Kings Billabong Nature Trail (Mildura)
- Emerald Lake Park Nobelius Track (Emerald)
Or, if you’re wandering closer to Melbourne:
- Fitzroy street art tour & Melbourne city street art tour
- Delights of Albert Park
- Bayside architectural trail
Better still, show off your own walks to by creating a walk on www.walkingmaps.com.au!
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Check out the Victoria Walks site.
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Bag It: Appetite for Insight film screening
Posted in Events by TransitionTownPortPhillip on December 5th, 2011
| 12 December , 2011 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
The final Appetite for Insight screening for 2011 & a special event not to be missed!
Special guest speakers:
Tim Silverwood, Co-founder of Take 3 will introduce the film and talk about his trip to the Great Pacific Rubbish Dump, the global perspective and his Clean Beach Initiative.
Neil Blake,“Baykeeper” & Port Phillip EcoCentre Director will share his knowledge on local impacts and how you can take action, such as joining a Coast Walk or Butt Safari.
http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=16918
Join us for a nourishing evening out and share some festive cheer!
Cultivating Green Art: Ideas & Solutions For Environmental Sustainability
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on November 18th, 2011
| 24 November , 2011 | ||
| 5:20 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
City of Melbourne, TippingPoint Australia and the Danish Arts Agency have combined to bring you some of Melbourne and Copenhagen’s most exciting cultural innovators as they discuss how they see the artists in their cities respond to the challenge of environmental sustainability. Contribute to the Café Conversations style evening and have interactive creative conversations on the issues they raise.
Speakers
- Karen Blincoe – Graphic Designer, Environmentalist and Director International Centre for Creativity Innovation and Sustainability, Denmark
- Miyuki Jokiranta – Journalist and Managing Director, Seven Thousand Oaks, Melbourne
- Martin Mulligan – Director RMIT Globalism Research Centre, Melbourne
- Katrine Vejby – Journalist and Radio Producer, Founding Festival Director of co2penhagen, Denmark
Facilitator: Angharad Wynne-Jones – Director of TippingPoint Australia, Melbourne
Date: Thursday 24 November 2011
Time: 5.00pm for 5.20 start to 7.30pm. NOTE EARLY TIME
Venue: Melbourne Town Hall, Supper Room, Swanston Street, Melbourne
FREE ENTRY BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTAIL. Call 0421 642012 and leave a message or visit http://www.trybooking.com/ZNO to register.
A joint presentation by TippingPoint Australia and Melbourne Conversations. Supported by the Danish Arts Agency and ³State of Green. Join the Future. Think Denmark, Sydney and Melbourne 20-24 November 2011.
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“Don’t Frack The Earth” film and discussion evening
Posted in Events by TransitionTownPortPhillip on September 23rd, 2011
| 27 September , 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
The Port Phillip EcoCentre, in collaboration with Transition Town Port Phillip & L.I.V.E (Locals Into Victoria’s Environment), is hosting a film & discussion evening, about the risks of coal seam gas mining, currently proposed for Victoria.
The technique, hydraulic fracturing – otherwise known as “fracking” – seriously risks permanent contamination of the water table, land surface, plant & animal health as well as human health.
Join us for the screening of the ABC doco and part of “Gasland”, get informed, enjoy some hearty discussion & a bite to eat.
Tuesday 27 September, 7-8.30pm
Port Phillip EcoCentre 55a Blessington St, St Kilda Free event, bookings & more info please call 9534 0670 —Wildflower Festival: Uplift your mind and body
Posted in Events by John Myers on September 19th, 2011
| 9 October , 2011 |
Photo courtesy of Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
Spring clean your mind and body at the Wildflower Festival at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne on Sunday 9 October.
This year’s annual Wildflower Festival will make the most of getting people outdoors and into the Australian Garden for many different activities designed to lighten the body and soul. From yoga among the wildflowers through to bushwalks, photography and botanical art, there is something for everyone to get involved in and enjoy.
Best of all is the chance to enjoy the eruption of colour of wildflowers throughout the bushland and in the Australian Garden, inspiration for the recent gold medal award-winning Australian Garden Show Garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Winning gold at Chelsea is seen as the pinnacle of excellence for landscape design and horticultural display. Over 150,000 people saw the show garden in London this year.
Among the spring wildflower display are the Circus Triggerplant (Stylidium bulbiferum), a dazzling plant from Western Australia that is covered with a layer of many small pink flowers; as well as a spectacular flowering lily with no common name (Thelionema grande) which in spring produces gorgeous deep blue star-like flowers, which open over a number of weeks.
Wildflower Festival highlights:
- Wildflower photography
- Yoga among the wildflowers
- Fabulously addicted to massage
- Wonderful wildflower walk
- Botanical Illustrators
- Continuous Colour Native Garden
- Blakes Feast
Sunday October 9
Entry fees no longer apply for the Australian Garden.
Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
Corner of Ballarto Road and Botanic Drive
off South Gippsland Highway
Cranbourne
Melway Map 133, K10
Bookings are required on 03 5990 2245.
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Photo courtesy of Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
The 14th Mullum Mullum Festival
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on September 7th, 2011
| 10 September , 2011 | ||
| 11 September , 2011 | ||
| 17 September , 2011 | ||
| 18 September , 2011 |
The 14th Mullum Mullum Festival 10 -11 September and 17 -18 September
Starting off with a bike ride on Saturday 10 September, the festival will be officially opened on Sunday 11th September by Luke Chamberlain, Victorian Forest Campaigner for The Wilderness Society, at Yarran Dheran Reserve, North Mitcham.
The opening day will provide a variety of events from the local Aboriginal community and other performers as well as a BBQ supplied by the Healesville Aboriginal Arts coop. There will be organic cordial from the Good Brew Cart and walks and talks for both adults and children.
The Festival will continue on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September at a variety of sites in the Mullum Mullum Valley, and will include environmental, sustainability and climate change walks and talks and presentations at Currawong Bush Park, Warrandyte.
The program can be found at http://mullummullumfestival.org.au/
For hard copies of the program – contact decortis@bigpond.net.au or 9719 7661 or download and print from here
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Earth Matters: Weekly on 3CR
Posted in Movements, Research, Visions by Kate Archdeacon on August 5th, 2011
Image: Tom Civil via flickr CC
Earth Matters – www.earthmatters.org.au
A weekly radio program covering local, national and international environmental issues with a strong social justice bent. Bringing fresh environmental news to the people, Earth Matters reports on environmental campaigns and critical ecological issues. Interviewees range from environmental activists, commentators and scientists. Produced at Radio 3CR in Melbourne and distributed around Australia on the Community Radio Network.
Recent shows on Earth Matters (available for download / podcast):
- 30th July – Urban forestry – towers through the trees Urban Forestry identifies trees as a critical element of urban infrastructure and is a method for creating sustainable urban ecosystems.
- 24th July – Lurujarri Songline; Protecting Land & Sea The incredible story of the James Price Point Blockade in the Kimberley where 25 people were arrested for protesting this month & Joseph Roe is inspiring a divided community to reunite & save the ancient Songline of the Goolaraboloo People.
- 17th July – Solar hot water and people power A vision to set up a workers’ cooperative building solar hot water units in the Latrobe Valley, which ultimately wants to involve people across the country and change our economy.
Tune in on 3CR: Sunday 11 – 11.30am
Repeats: Monday 10.30 – 11am, Wednesday 6.30 – 7am
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Greening a Changing City: Urban forest, health, liveability
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on July 27th, 2011
| 28 July , 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Image: stevendepolo via flickr CC
Greening a changing city: urban forest, health, liveability:
As Melbourne inevitably grows, central to its environmental and economic sustainability, is its capacity to have green spaces that can be the lungs of the city. Appropriate tree planting can serve to reduce the heat island effect, as climate change affects our city. The benefits of an enhanced urban forest and green infrastructure will be part of the solution to future changes, as we grow and old trees need replacement. Commentators will discuss how a future urban forest might evolve. Better places and spaces, healthy trees and water storage contribute to human health, wellbeing and economic sustainability.
Panellists include: Dr Cecil C. Konijnendijk, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen; Dr Kate Auty, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Melbourne; Rod Marsh from Net Balance, Joy Murphy AO a Wurundjeri elder and traditional owner and GP Dr Dimity Williams the Secretary of Doctors for the Environment Aust.
Thursday July 28, 6 – 7:30 pm
Melbourne Town Hall
No RSVP required
thatsmelbourne.com/conversations
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A Wildlife Experience in St Kilda
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on July 22nd, 2011
| 30 July , 2011 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
A Wildlife Experience in St Kilda (for parents and kids) on Saturday 30 July
Aimed at kids, together with their parents, this workshop is designed to stimulate interest in native animals and birds. It also provides kids and their parents with a project that they can tackle together at home i.e. constructing a nesting box and then attracting owls, birds, etc. to their home, school or neighbourhood. Gio, a local 14 year old boy, is a keen naturalist and has built and deployed nesting boxes all over St Kilda and even as far afield as Phillip Island (where the hospital there has attracted a barn owl into one of his boxes). Marian is a PhD student specializing in a local bird, the tawny frogmouth.
2.30 pm : Gio, (14), will teach parents and their kids how to make a nesting box to attract birds and animals.
3.30 pm: Marian Weaving will explain how to do wildlife surveys.
4.30 pm: A walk around the St Kilda Botanic Gardens with Gio & Marian to observe wildlife and to illustrate the best way to conduct a wildlife survey.
Date: Saturday 30 July; Cost: $20 per family
Bookings essential – phone 9534 0670.
For more information, contact Bede Doherty (GM at Port Phillip EcoCentre)
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