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Living Smart Festival, Visions for the Hunter, Aussie Bird Count, Faith and Climate Justice, Environmental Careers night, Hunter Innovation Festival, The Seeding and lots of Landcare!
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enviroBYTES Opportunity Calendar
September
- 15-27 - Living Smart Discovery Trails, Lake Mac
- 17 - Less Mess workshop: Creating an Intentional Wardrobe, Tomaree Library
- 17 - Secrets to enjoy cycling workshop, Islington (every Saturday)
- 18 - Landcare in Maitland, Bolwarra
- 18 - HRBG Bush Tucker Walk & Talk, Heatherbrae
- 18 - Costa talks Seeds, Soil and Gardening for the Soul, Wallsend
- 20 - CLEANaS Monthly Meeting, ONLINE
- 22 - Experiments in Electronics, Toronto
- 23-25 - Natural mudbrick weekend building workshop, Wollombi
- 24 - Living Smart Festival, Speers Point Park
- 24 - Native Plant Giveaway, Speers Point Park
- 24 - School of Earth Australia: Discover Sharks Workshop, Speers Point Park
- 24 - Spring Native Plant Sale, Shortland
- 24 - HRBG Meet The Native Bees Talk, Heatherbrae
- 25 - Ecovillage Open Day - Eco-living talks & tour, Narara
- 25 - Introduction to Home Canning and Preserving, Ellalong
- 25 - Lions 75th Anniversary Tree Planting, Coal Point
- 25-30 - Advanced Community Organising Training, Kurri Kurri TAFE
- 27 - Aboriginal Cultural workshop, Morisset
- 27 - Native Plant Giveaway, Belmont Library
- 28 - Native Plant Giveaway, Morisset Library
- 28 - Encouraging biodiversity in your garden, Morisset
- 28 - HCA Community Assembly: Visions for the Hunter, Newcastle West
- 29 - Lake Mac Seed Library Processing Session, Morisset
- 29 - I2N Join the Dots - Internet of Things, Newcastle
October
- 1 - CEN Wildplant Nursery Plant Sale, Ourimbah
- 5 - Free Talk: Native Plants for Shade-Australian Plants Society-Newcastle, HWC Shortland
- 5 - HRBG Bush Tucker Walk & Talk, Heatherbrae
- 6 - School of Earth Australia: Outer Space Live Online Event
- 7 - SMART School Holiday Workshop! Explore Coding and Robotics with SMART, Callaghan
- 7 - Be more safe and healthy Critical Mass Newy Bike Ride (on Awabakal land), Newcastle
- 8 - HWC Get to know our Shorebirds - kids art activity, Shortland
- 10 - HRBG Native Plant Tour, Heatherbrae
- 12 - Hunter Innovation Festival, Newcastle
- 13 - Multi-faith service for climate justice, Tighes Hill
- 13 - HEI Environmental Careers: Information Session for University and High School Students, Callaghan
- 15 - Free drop off day - Mattresses & Tyres, Salamander Bay
- 16 - Landcare in Maitland, Bolwarra
- 17 - 23 - Aussie Bird Count, Your backyard
- 18 - CLEANaS Monthly Meeting, ONLINE
- 20 - NCCR Monthly Gathering, Mayfield
- 30 - Reclaim the Void -hosted by NewC0h, Newcastle
- 30 - Ecovillage Open Day - Eco-living talks & tour, Narara
- 31 - Competition Closes: Junior Landcare ‘What’s in your backyard?’
November
- 2 - Free Talk: Native Plants for Shade-Australian Plants Society-Newcastle, HWC Shortland
- 5 - CEN Wildplant Nursery Plant Sale, Ourimbah
- 10 - Entries Close - National Schools Poster Competition
- 12 - Central Coast NSW Tiny Home Expo, Tuggerah
- 15 - CLEANaS Monthly Meeting, ONLINE
- 17 - NCCR Monthly Gathering, Mayfield
- 17 - HEI Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) - Save the date, Newcastle
- 19 - Free drop off day - E-waste, Raymond Terrace
- 19 - Less Mess workshop: Living With Less, Raymond Terrace
- 20 - Landcare in Maitland, Bolwarra
- 21 - HRBG Native Plant Tour, Heatherbrae
- 27 - Ecovillage Open Day - Eco-living talks & tour, Narara
December
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Living Smart Festival
When: Saturday 24 September
Where: Speers Point Park
Cost: FREE
The Living Smart Festival will showcase sustainability workshops and activities on backyard gardening, native habitat creation, renewables, upcycling, reducing food waste, sustainable food systems, First Nations, building community and personal resilience, and electric vehicles. Gold Logie-winning television personality and gardening guru Costa Georgiadis is back by popular demand as festival headliner.
For more information...
Leave the car at home and catch the shuttle bus or look at other sustainable ways to get there...
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Living Smart Discovery Trails
Come and enjoy Lake Mac’s new Discovery Trails on the shared pathway along the foreshore to Speers Point Park.
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As you make your way along the 3km trail, keep your eyes peeled for the six Discovery Trail pathway stickers on the pavement. Scan the QR code and reveal questions about the natural environment, Aboriginal culture, local history and points of interest. Answer the questions correctly and the location of the next QR code on the trail will be revealed.
Complete the trail and receive a downloadable certificate.
- Trail one goes from Booragul to Speers Point Park.
- Trail two goes from Warners Bay to Speers Point Park.
The trails will be open for two weeks from 14-27 September.
This is a great way to use active transport and have some fun on your way to this year’s Living Smart Festival.
For more information...
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HCA Community Assembly: Visions for the Hunter
When: Wednesday 28 September 6PM - 9PM
Where: Southern Cross Hall, 841 Hunter Street, Newcastle West
Cost: FREE
What's one thing you'd change in the Hunter if you could? What are your concerns and visions for our region?
You are warmly invited to join the Hunter Community Alliance for our community assembly. For the past few months, our alliance of 25 community groups have been listening to community concerns. As the March 2023 state election approaches, we plan to identify concerns to communicate to our region's elected representatives.
Join us to:
* hear stories from a diverse range of community voices
* connect with other community members
* help identify concerns and visions that are widely and deeply felt
* share a meal
* learn about the Hunter Community Alliance and our vision for people power
RSVP essential. Book your place...
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SMART School Holiday Workshop! Explore Coding and Robotics with SMART
When: Friday 7 October 9AM - 2:30PM
Where: University of Newcastle, Callaghan
Cost: $104.50
A fun, full-day STEM workshop for Primary School Children in Years 3-6.
This hands-on workshop explores robotics and coding - and a little bit of toy making!
Workshop activities are suitable for both beginner and experienced coders, and include:
- ROBOTICS: Dance, drive or deliver? Program a LEGO EV3 robot to either move through a maze, dance up a storm, or, deliver a package! Add craft materials to customise your robot. Add sensors to extend your coding skills.
- TOY MAKING: We'll use either Makey-Makey's or BBC micro:bits to program a skill tester toy, that will buzz (or meow?!) when a wand touches a wire.
- CODING: Hello World! Code interactive characters in a world you create, using the Code.org Sprite Lab.
Book your place...
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2022 Aussie Bird Count
When: 17-23 October
Where: Anywhere you choose
Cost: FREE
Join the flock for Australia’s largest citizen science project
You can make a difference for bird conservation by giving a moment of your time to count the birds around you. Use your observation skills for a 20-minute period to make a simple but important contribution to Birdlife Australia’s conservation initiatives.
For more information...
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Grab a camera and tell us ‘What’s in your backyard?’
This National Biodiversity Month, Junior Landcare Ambassador Costa Georgiadis and Junior Landcare are calling on Aussie kids, schools and youth groups to grab a camera, get outdoors and capture photos of the flora and fauna in their backyard.
Children (via their parents, carers or educators) can submit as many photos as they wish to the Junior Landcare website, Themes – biodiversity, food production, First Nations perspectives and waste management – and explain to Costa why their photo is special to them.
Competition closes 31 October 2022
For more information...
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Hunter Innovation Festival - This event is where is all comes together. The manufactures meet the makers, the developers meet the distributors, the industry experts meet the educators. This is a great opportunity to learn from each other and we encourage everyone to come along and be inspired by what is happening right here in our own backyard. Tickets $99. For more information... Book your place...
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Multi-faith service for climate justice
When: Thursday 13 October 10AM
Where: Immaculate Heart of Mary Newcastle, 22 Tighes Terrace, Tighes Hill
Cost: FREE
Join with people of all faiths both in Australia and around the Pacific to show solidarity with those suffering because of humanity's addiction to fossil fuels. We will show the strength of grassroots support for an open letter to Prime Minister Albanese, signed by senior faith leaders in Australia and the Pacific. It will call on the Australian Government to:
- Stop approving new coal and gas projects
- End public subsidies for coal and gas projects
- Fully respect First Nations peoples' rights to protect Country
- Actively participate in creating a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to phase out fossil fuels
- Support a just transition
- Re-start contributions to the United Nations Green Climate Fund.
Like many people who care about the climate, people of faith are excited by the potential of this new government to take Australian in a different direction. Yet they also need encouragement to go further.
For more information... and here...
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Environmental Careers: Information Session for University and High School Students
When: Thursday October 13 4PM - 5:30PM
Where: Basden Theatre, BAG01 University of Newcastle, Callaghan
Cost: FREE
The Hunter Environmental Institute and the University of Newcastle invites you to the Careers in the Environment seminar, focusing on opportunities for students and emerging professionals. Come and hear from a number of environmental professionals about their experiences, current work and how they got there. Learn how we did it, what to study, who to know, where to intern. There will be opportunities for questions to the panel following the presentations.
Book your place/For more information...
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2022 National Landcare Conference Education Resources
Video recordings, presentation decks and posters from the 2022 National Landcare Conference are now available here...
For more information...
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Peter Dalton and Gabrielle Stacey talk about their landcare partnership. Watch above or click here...
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NextGen Landcare Youth Forum Recordings Now Live
Kicking off the 2022 National Landcare Conference, the NextGen Landcare Youth Forum provided a space for young people around Australia to come together and explore ways they can channel their passion and concern for the future of our planet into meaningful action. Video recordings and presentation decks are available here...
For more information...
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National Schools Poster Competition
Keep your message brief, friendly, and to the point. If readers need to know more than you can fit here, add a link to an outside resource that covers the rest.
A reminder that National Schools Poster Competition (NSPC) entries are due online by 10 November via https://ssapostercomp.info/.
- For those approaching school holidays, commencing projects or stimulating thoughts to build upon during or after the break may be valuable. In any event, the final school term offers adequate time to begin and complete projects. Spring provides a good opportunity for projects assessing the growth of potted plants having varied amounts of water/sunshine, or outdoor-focussed investigations surrounding the environment!
- All entrants receive participation certificates … and a valuable and enjoyable learning experience – checkout the 5-min testimonial video from students and teachers at the website.
- Registration and entry is FREE – teachers submit posters online (either photos or e-posters) on behalf of students.
The competition, now in its 9th year, is continuing to engage and help educate over 1,000 participants annually.
For more information...
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Professor Veena Sahajwalla - waste and circular economies recording - or watch here...
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15/09/2022
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