Articles in the Illawarra Organisations Category
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The Nature Conservation Council of NSW is bringing the Climate Challenge program to the Illawarra – and it’s free!
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Grace entered the prestigious LandLearn NSW public speaking competition at the end of last year and she has been selected as a finalist to compete at the Dubbo Beef Spectacular on March 15.
You can read more about the competition at the NSW [...]
Frugality, Household, Illawarra Organisations, Waste »
FreeCycle is a great way to give a new life to stuff you no longer want, and to divert still-useful waste from landfill tips. Here are some of the useful things I’ve picked up…
Events, Growing Food, Illawarra Businesses, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations, Permaculture »
Lots of photos from the Kiama Sustainability Expo and Kiama Community Garden Open Day, held on Sunday. There were lots of local organisations and businesses present, as well as celebrity gardener Costa from SBS. What a top day!
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Jamberoo Community Growers, a local gardening club affiliated with the Garden Clubs Of Australia, is selling flower bulbs as a fundraiser. We’re hoping to raise enough money to cover our insurance for the year, and maybe some running costs as well.
Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations »
The new Green Box Regional Food Cooperative Ltd needs your help to show Matt Brown’s office that they have broad support from within the Kiama community. Please help!
Electricity, Events, Illawarra Businesses, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations, Science and Technology »
I spent most of Sunday helping to staff the Jamberoo FutureCare table at the Shellharbour Solar Expo, at Shellharbour Workers’ Club (who actually have 22 kW of solar panels installed themselves – see photo).
The expo was organised by Jamberoo FutureCare, in conjunction with Shellharbour and Kiama Councils. There were a number of solar power and [...]
Illawarra Organisations, Media Coverage »
We’re making a documentary!
One of the community groups I belong to, Jamberoo FutureCare, recently teamed up with local documentary filmmaker Russell Hawkins to apply for a cultural grant from Kiama Council. Our proposal was to make a documentary about local people trying to live more sustainably.
Lucky for us, Council liked the idea and awarded us [...]
Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations, Keeping Animals »
We had a fantastic presentation today at the Jamberoo Community Growers meeting, by the people from Organic Crop Protectants. A big part of the talk was on organic fruit fly control, using their “eco-naturalure” male fruit fly trap and attractant/insecticide products. It looks like a great system to keep these frustrating pests down.
You simply bait [...]
Events, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations, Media Coverage, Super Challenge »
I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the launch of Kiama Council’s new Kiamasphere web site on Thursday.
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll probably know that our sustainability journey really got going when my family joined the Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge. It gave us the impetus to stop [...]
