Strathewen & St Andrews Sustainable Rebuilding Project invites you to attend one or all of a series of workshops for 2012, designed to assist owner builders and renovators to make their homes as energy efficient as possible. Workshop #6 is about retrofitting your garden or landscaping for bushfire protection.
Strathewen & St Andrews Sustainable Rebuilding Project invites you to attend one or all of a series of workshops for 2012, designed to assist owner builders and renovators to make their homes as energy efficient as possible. Workshop #6 is about retrofitting your garden or landscaping for bushfire protection.
Strathewen & St Andrews Sustainable Rebuilding Project invites you to attend one or all of a series of workshops for 2012, designed to assist owner builders and renovators to make their homes as energy efficient as possible. Workshop #4 Septic systems: options, costs and maintenance.
Strathewen & St Andrews Sustainable Rebuilding Project invites you to attend one or all of a series of workshops for 2012, designed to assist owner builders and renovators to make their homes as energy efficient as possible. Workshop #4 Septic systems: options, costs and maintenance.
Habitat for Humanity Victoria is holding a Mega Furniture Sale at their ReStore site. They have received a large amount of beds and dining tables.
Firefoxes Australia, a grassroots support group that emerged following the Black Saturday bushfires, is the subject of a captivating documentary being launched this month. "Creating a New Normal" is a journey of recovery from disaster and trauma
Participation, deliberation,
collaboration, transformation. Disaster-impacted communities
provide extraordinary opportunities for socially innovative and
ecologically resilient rebuilding. Stakeholder-inclusive
deliberation liberates creativity and the potential inherent in
community renewal.
You are invited to participate in a research project, Deliberative Democracy in Disaster Recovery: Improving participation for sustainable outcomes.
The Strathewen & St Andrews Sustainable Rebuilding Project are holding a series of workshops designed to assist owner builders and renovators to make their homes as energy efficient as possible.
Come down to Eltham and celebrate sustainable living and everything green at Nillumbik Shire Council's Practically Green Festival this October!
International disaster resilience experts Meg Wheatley and Angela Blanchard join community leaders for a two-day seminar exploring disaster resilience leadership.
Kinglake Ranges Wilderness Camp have decided to take a lot of you up on your offers of help that have come through in these past 2 years. We will be running a 'WORKING BEE' at the camp on Sunday February 27 from 9am to 6pm ish with a BBQ Lunch and dinner provided.
On the last Saturday of every month is the Kinglake Ranges Mens Shed Saturday BBQ. A Gold Coin Donation is required but all Kinglake Ranges Men are welcome between 11.00am and 2.00pm at the Kinglake Ranges Mens Shed, 5 Oldfield Road Pheasant Creek.
Michael Reynolds is a Sustainable Housing Innovator & Earthship Architect. For over forty years Michael Reynolds has been been designing and building sustainable homes that heat and cool themselves, are built from natural and recycled materials, produce their own electricity, collect their own water, treat their own sewage and grow their own food. KRCRC Public Information Night will be held at the Kinglake Village Hall from 7.00pm - 9.00pm on Wednesday 23rd February 2011.
Well known ecologist Dr Graeme Lorimer will conduct a wildflower walk through the Glassford property in Reedy Creek as a follow up in the bushfire affected landscape.
CFA will be holding a live online FireReady meeting on Monday 8 November 2010 at 8.00pm.
The annual Marysville Marathon Festival provides an opportunity for the community to come together to witness the devastation and the regeneration that followed. It celebrates the courage of those who experienced the fires and the compassion exhibited in their wake.
VBRRA are hosting a series of building expos are being held for bushfire-affected communities. The expos are designed to assist people who are considering building in bushfire-affected areas by providing information and advice about affordable homes, specialised products and financial advice. Check
Eltham's Practically Green Festival is a family-friendly celebration of eco building and sustainability, complete with music, workshops, yummy food including organic food and wine, with lots of market stalls where you can see and buy a huge range of sustainable products.
Hoof Over Hills is Flowerdale Primary School's annual fundraising event. Take an adventure through the slowly regenerating forests around Flowerdale. With them you will experience some of the most amazing hilltop riding on offer anywhere in the world.
Andrew Campbell presentation and Local Regenerative & Sustainable Food Production Visioning Workshop.
The Sustainability Festival in Whittlesea brings the community together in October for green ideas, food, music and celebrations.
Kristin was keen to support the women of Flowerdale after the bushfires, to build morale and have fun in the thick of so many challenges. So she started giving belly dancing classes!
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