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Green Thymes
You can read about local events, projects, workshops, grants and articles that have a sustainability or environmental flavour.
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Sustainable Living - a practical super session
Join us for our first Common Thread session for 2017
Come along to Sustainable Living - a practical super session, featuring five presenters and an activity to make your own jute scrubber.
Topics include:
- Assess your own home energy use for FREE! Learn how to use the home energy toolkit available at your local library.
- Where is your waste coming from? Audit your home to reduce your waste footprint.
- Ebooks and digital magazines - a whole new world of online FREE stuff!
- Kefir and Kombucha: fermented goodness
- Living Smart: sustainable living course
- Make your own jute scrubber for the kitchen sink
When:
Arrive 6.45pm for 7pm start - until about 9pm
Wednesday 1 March
Where:
Marion Cultural Centre
Oaklands Park
Cost
FREE!
Food and drink
Tea and coffee will be available - free of charge
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Save $$ and Energy - FREE Workshop
Come learn how to save money on electricity bills by reducing your household energy usage.
$30 metro cards will be available for just $10 to Marion & Holdfast residents on the night. Limited spaces.
Price: Free
Location: Brighton Civic Centre - Kingston Room, 24 Jetty Rd, Brighton SA 5048
Date: Thursday 23 March
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
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Attracting native bees to your garden
Join Dr Remko Leijs for an informative presentation on attracting native bees to your garden. Look at the extraordinary species diversity and the way they collect pollen and build nests. You will walk away with the knowledge of build a native bee hotel and how to attract them to your garden.
Price: $4
Location: Glandore Community Centre
Date: Friday 24 February
Time: 6pm
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Fun in the local park
Voted Baby and Toddler Destination of the Year - Jervois St Reserve is a great place for the kids.
Jervois Street Reserve in South Plympton offers something for people of all ages with:
- playgrounds,
- fitness equipment,
- bike tracks,
- basketball/netball facilities,
- a toilet
- picnic facilities.
Following the recent development of Jervois Street Reserve, Council is now seeking the community's feedback about the new park. Let us know what you think about your new playspace, and what you would like your reserves and playgrounds to look like in the future.
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FREE Heatwave Planning Workshop
Are you interested in keeping your household safe during this summer and into the future?
This collaborative workshop invites you to broaden your understanding of summer heat and heatwaves and to develop individual plans that support your household, the environment and local community.
Price: FREE! Light refreshments will be provided.
Location: The Joinery, 111 Franklin St, Adelaide, SA
Date: Saturday 25th February
Time: 10am - 2pm
Bookings and more information: Pippa Buchanan - email [email protected] or 0498 206 532
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Help fill the pantry of people in need
Did you know that last year Foodbank SA saved 1.5 million kilograms of food from being wasted in landfill and fed close to 85,000 people experiencing hunger in SA?
Residents are being asked to donate non-perishable food to those in need in the community as part of a new partnership between the City of Marion and Foodbank SA.
Foodbank SA collects and redistributes surplus food to more than 520 welfare organisation and 460 school breakfast programs.
Our council offices at Glandore Community Centre, Cove Civic Centre and on Sturt Rd are standing by to receive donations over the next month, until 6th March.
Now is the time to clean out your pantry and donate non-perishable food at least 2-3 months before its "use by" date to Foodbank SA.
The most wanted items are:
- Tuna
- Canned ham
- Canned veggies
- Canned fruit
- Canned spaghetti
- Pasta sauce
- Long life milk
Many people think hunger is only a Third World problem, but unfortunately, there is real need in our community right now.
If everyone lends a hand by donating non-perishable food we can make life that much easier. Foodbank also takes money donations. Every $1 donated to Foodbank equates to $8 of food that can be purchased for programs such as Schools' Breakfast or Everyday or Christmas Hampers.
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Grow your idea - City of Marion Community Grants
Got a great idea for a greener, more sustainable local community?
Just need some funding to get it off the ground?
The City of Marion has grants of up to $2000 as well as $5000 grants and one $10,000 grant.
For more information on eligibility criteria and how to apply, visit the
Community grants page on the City of Marion website.
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Local natives in the spotlight - Calostemma purpureum
(Garland Lily)
This flower has just started flowering on the Coastal Walking Trail, flowering in response to summer rains. It is unusual in that it sends up the flowers first followed by the leaves. Calostemma belongs to the plant family Amaryllidaceae, a large family readily recognized in horticulture with such members as Daffodil and Belladona. The genus name Calostemma comes from the Greek, kalos, beautiful, and stemma, crown. The plant grows in rocky soils along our coast and makes an ideal rockery garden specimen, taking up very little space but with extenbded flowering stems high enough so that is becomes quite obvious. Propagation is simple as the seed capsules often shoot on the soiul surface and can be directly sown into a pot.
Photos: Jerry Smith
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Weaving a sense of place in our community
Photo: Laura Wills and William Cheesman
Weaving Communities will provide a platform of making where people will be welcomed into a creative space to interact chat and share ideas.
Iconic images of Australiana interweave with symbols of multiculturalism, providing references to Australia's diverse community and immigration history.
Sculptures weave together joining people and ideas.
Participants are invited to spend time together making, writing, weaving, wishing, tying and rearranging plant material and found objects. In doing so, connecting with their sense of place on a number of different levels.
Where:
Marion Celebrates Twilight Street Party
Marion Culture Centre (just outside the Gallery M and Signatures Café)
287 Diagonal Road, Oaklands Park SA 5046
When:
Saturday 25 March,
4 - 9pm
Cost:
FREE and open to all ages
Artists
Laura Wills and Will Cheesman
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100% Renewable Energy Communities - FREE event
Hosted by Conservation Council of SA
When: 6 - 7.30pm, Monday 20 February 2017
The Joinery, 111 Franklin Street Adelaide
Described as a world class energy magician, Søren Hermansen has spearheaded the transformation of his home - the island of Samsø in Denmark - to become the world's first 100% renewable energy island in 2007.
What's relevant to South Australia in Søren's story is the way Samsø created its energy transition, largely from within the community's own resources. Søren was instrumental in bringing the community on this journey from skepticism to belief in the benefits of clean energy independence and the new economy it can create.
Come along to be inspired by the Samsø story and to find out what you need to know to help set our state on its own journey.
Søren is Time Magazine's Hero of the Environment 2008 and has recently written
Commonity = Common + Community, a book about modern commons and how to understand them. For more information about Søren's work, see Samsø Energy Academy:
www.energiakademiet.dk
Soren will be introduced by Heather Smith who has recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship looking at community energy around the world as a way of understanding the deeper energy transitions that are underway.
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Hallett Cove Conservation Park - Park of the Month
Hop along to a number of great, FREE events at Hallett Cove Conservation Park.
Get to know more about the gems that are right on your front doorstep.
Snorkel the reef, explore the rock pools, visit the sugar loaf, learn how to take great photos with your smart phone or join a sunset photography class.
For more information about the Park and FREE events visit:
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Facebook Group of the Month - Treading my own path
With so many inspiring, interesting, weird and wonderful facebook groups out there - we thought you might like to hear about a different sustainability related one each month. Feel free to send me your suggestions for interesting pages!
Follow the stories and experiences of Lindsay Miles as she lives a life of less stuff and better choices on her facebook page called
Treading my own path. Based in WA, this lady has recently delivered a TED talk about her lifestyle and has a
website full of information, books, toolkits, beautiful images.
Find out how Lindsay lives a zero waste lifestyle and be inspired to make changes to your lifestyle.
Are you new to Facebook? The City of Marion offers FREE, one-on-one, personalised digital literacy sessions. Sessions are available at Cove Civic Centre, Cultural Centre Library and Parkholme Library. Bookings are essential and can be made by contacting the library on 8375 6755.
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More workshops, events and courses!
Visit
The Joinery website for a host of other exciting sustainability events.
Based in the City, The Joinery, is a hive of inspiring community activity
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