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Green Thymes
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Saturday Sustainability Workshops @ Café 25
Opening Saturdays,
Café 25 has been created through neighbourhood goodwill and promises to deliver the local community more than just good food and coffee.
Using produce from the community garden (where available) it is the perfect place to sit back with friends and relax over a cup of tea and a bliss ball.
Café 25 is also going to offer regular workshop. These may include henna painting, Aboriginal basket weaving, sustainability topics, book swaps and more..
A Community Café that offers a little bit more....workshops, food and friendship.
Hope to see you there!
Workshops include:
- 50 Shades of Crochet
- Macramé workshop
- Green Cleaning Workshop
- Boomerang Bags Workshop
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FREE Waste and Recycling Tour
Find out what happens to your waste and recycling on this FREE tour for City of Marion residents. Sites to be visited includeVISY Recycling Jeffries Group composting, Adelaide Resource Recovery, Resource Co. Alternative Fuel plant, and Electronic Recycling Australia.
Thursday 26 July
9.45am - 4.30pm
Meeting at Cooinda Neighbourhood Centre
Please bring your own lunch.
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Plastic Free July Activities
Make your own
- Beeswax wrap
- Produce bag
- Boomerang Bags
Plastic Free July aims to raise awareness of the problems with single-use disposable plastic and challenges people to do something about it. As part of Plastic Free July we are running a FREE workshop to give you the opportunity to make your own environmentally friendly products.
When: Monday 30 July, 12 noon - 2pm Where: Trott Park Neighbourhood Centre, 34 Hessing Crescent, Trott Park Cost: FREE Bookings essential: 8387 2074
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Are you worried about the amount of rubbish your household generates?
Do you feel like you should be doing something, but don't know where to start?
Have you heard about Plastic Free July?
Plastic Free July encourages you to avoid single use plastics for the month of July. Basically all of the plastic stuff in our lives that is designed to be used once and then thrown away.
Pick the level that best suits you:
- start by focusing in on some of the main takeaway items - could you go for the whole of July without using any single use plastic bags, bottled water / soft drink, takeaway coffee cups and plastic straws?
- or if that sounds easy - take it up a notch and see if you can really cut down on single use plastic and plastic packaging.
Plastic Free July is a great way to focus in on what we buy, use and throw away and spend July trying to find alternatives that work for you and your household.
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FREE Resilient Leaders Workshop
Want to learn more about emergency management in our community?
Gain the skills to prepare and help support our community in the event of an emergency situation.
The Red Cross is running a 2 day FREE workshop in the City of Marion for community leaders, to better prepare our community for emergency situations. This free workshop includes interactive activities, stories from real disasters and a panel discussion with a number of emergency services.
Over the two days participants will learn about:
- South Australian Emergency Management procedures
- The impacts of emergencies of families and individuals
- How you can support your community in preparing for, responding to and recovering from emergencies
At the end of the workshops Resilient Leaders will have the skills and knowledge that will enable them to better support their community through emergencies big and small.
When: Saturday 4th and Saturday 11th August
Where: City of Marion Council Chambers
Time: 9am - 4pm
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Growing Food in Our Cities
Due to popular demand, the SA Urban Food Network have secured Michael Ableman (award-winning Canadian author, organic farmer, educator, and advocate for regenerative agriculture) for an intensive two-day workshop from 7-8 August 2018, Adelaide - Gawler, SA.
This workshop is designed for all change-makers who want to enable more city growing projects through policy, local and state government, business design and investment and community.
Secure your limited spot today - early bird ends on July 6 - to work with Michael as he covers all the practical and engagement strategies needed to grow and provide access to more local, fresh food in and around our cities.
It will include a rich program of lectures, demonstrations, discussion and inspections to provide practical examples and strategies to show how urban agriculture can work successfully from both policy and practical perspectives. Local facilitators joining Michael are Annemarie Brookman from
The Food Forest
and Nat Wiseman from
Village Greens of Willunga Creek
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More workshops, events and courses!
Visit
The Joinery website for a host of other exciting sustainability events.
Based in Adelaide, The Joinery, is a hive of inspiring community activity
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