Anthologie takes out top Switched on Business Award
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(From Left) Cr. Ruth Butterfield (SEREG Chair & Mayor City of Armadale), Amy Sutton (Managing Director - Anthologie), Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas (City of Perth).
Photo: Scott Simpson (City of Perth)
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Huge congratulations to East Perth strategic design consultancy Anthologie for becoming Switch Your Thinking's newest Switched on Business Award winner! We recently visited Anthologie's East Perth premises where Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas presented the award to Managing Director Amy Sutton, praising her and the Anthologie team for their substantial steps towards embedding sustainability practices into their day to day operations. Mayor of the City of Armadale and Chair of the South East Regional Energy Group - Cr Ruth Butterfield - spoke about the importance of business sustainability and to congratulate Anthologie for their outstanding efforts.
In 2021, Anthologie became the first Western Australian strategic design consultancy to become Beyond Carbon Neutral, offsetting above and beyond the organisation's yearly emissions through Carbon Positive Australia. Last year, Anthologie breathed new life into an old warehouse in East Perth which would otherwise have been knocked down for re-development and installed energy efficient LED lights, water efficient appliances and solar panels. Anthologie also has maximised the environmental benefits of solar power by switching off gas over to electricity for its heating and appliance needs.
Anthologie has a sustainability team, made up of passionate individuals who actively promote environmental initiatives and reduce waste generation. They have:
- Taken steps to maximise recycling, including a Containers for Change account that donates revenue to Foodbank.
- Minimised obsolescence, their office is currently refit with recycled furniture.
- Prioritised sustainable and local procurement from suppliers through to clients.
- Managed the business using a paperless administration system.
- Does not provide or purchase single use kitchen items.
Since May 2022, Anthologie have generated 10.41 MWh from its solar panels, which has been a total saving of 5.52t CO2-e. This is equivalent to 141 trees planted, or 22,138km of car emissions avoided! Not only that, in 2020-2021 Anthologie offset 37.19 CO2-e emissions with Carbon Positive Australia, resulting in a diversity of 166 trees planted and natural bushland revegetated.
The most recent round of the Switched on Business Award (May - November) yielded several impressive nominations, with Marjorie Mann Mt. Lawley Daycare Centre and Rosen Australia Pty Ltd both being recognised with Certificates of Commendation from the judging panel who were impressed with their sustainability initiatives to date.
If you own, manage or work in a business you think is working hard to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and operate sustainably, consider nominating for the next round of the Switched on Business Award. Further information on the award as well as the nomination process and guidelines can be found on the Switch Your Thinking website. The nomination period for the current round closes on Friday May 12th 2023 at 5pm.
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City of Gosnells launches recycling hubs at Civic Centre and libraries
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The City of Gosnells recently installed recycling hubs at its Civic Centre and libraries. Residents can now take empty aerosol cans, mobile phones and chargers, household printer cartridges and light globes to these recycling hubs from which the items will be responsibly collected and reprocessed. If you have any queries on what can and can't be recycled at these locations, please reach out to the SYT team at mail@switchyourthinking.com.
If you need to dispose of household batteries, you can take them to one of many B-Cycle drop-off points in your local area. Find out what you can and cannot recycle through the B-Cycle program here.
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Sustainability themed resources @ City of Swan libraries
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Why buy when you can borrow? City of Swan residents - Did you know that the City's libraries have a sustainability resource collection? These resources come from the National Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne and cover a wide range of topics from sustainable gardening, self-sufficiency and living a more ethically aware lifestyle.
Take a look at the full catalogue here. You can also register to be a library member online and make requests for books that you are interested in.
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What's on in February - March 2023
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Modern cloth nappy workshop
Thursday, 16 February 2023
9:30am - 11:30am
Maylands Library
FREE
Join City of Bayswater for this free, relaxed, family-friendly workshop, and learn about modern cloth nappies from birth to toilet training.
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Thinking green: Healthy garden soils
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
10:30am - 12:00pm
Bullsbrook Public Library
FREE
The City of Swan Thinking Green team proudly presents Healthy Garden Soils, hosted by the Bullsbrook Public Library. Join Martina from Dandelion Permaculture to learn why healthy soils mean healthy gardens.
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Gardening workshop series: Create a wicking bed
Saturday, 25 February 2023
9:00am - 11:00am
Amherst Village Community Centre - Southern River
FREE
In this workshop learn how to set up a simple wicking bed in a plastic storage tub. This is perfect to grow lettuce or herbs and keep close to your back door to pick as you need.
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“What does it really cost?” An introduction to product life cycle assessment
Monday, 27 February 2023
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Bayswater Community Centre
FREE
In this workshop, we’ll explore the full cost of the products we buy – where things come from, how they are made and where they end up.
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How to compost your way to zero food waste
Saturday, 4 March 2023
10:00am - 11:30am
Champion Centre, Seville Grove
FREE
The City of Armadale’s Waste team invites you to join presenter Robyn Brown for this talk on How to Compost Your Way to Zero Food Waste.
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Nature Know-how: Black cockatoo conservation
Saturday, 4 March 2023
11:30am - 12:15pm
Ellenbrook Community Library
FREE
Learn all about these endangered cockatoos and what we can do to support them, and see a Black Cockatoo up close.
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Enhancing land stewardship of small properties
Saturday, 11 March 2023
9:00am - 1:00pm
Kalamunda Performing Arts Centre
$9.50
Improving management of small properties in Perth’s peri-urban areas – addressing water quality, soil health, fire management, and biodiversity. This workshop will provide high quality information on managing your property sustainably.
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Nature know-how: ‘Re-cyc-ology’ nest boxes
Saturday, 11 March 2023
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Gidgegannup Mens Shed
FREE
Simon Cherriman and Danielle from The Re-Cyc-Ology Project specialise in constructing and installing long-lasting, feral bee-resistant nest-boxes from recycled materials and showing you how to do the same.
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Nature know-how: Wildlife and wetlands
Thursday, 16 March 2023
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Guilford Public Library
FREE
Come and Visit Guilford public Library located in the City of Swan and learn about urban wetlands, their inhabitants and how we can help protect these important ecosystems.
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Gardening with microbes and microscopes
Saturday, 18 March 2023
10:00am - 11:30am
City of Vincent Library
FREE
Come along to Gardening with Microbes and Microscopes - a FREE interactive workshop where you can learn about the soil food web and soil succession.
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Blue Sky Mini-Fest
Saturday, 18 March 2023
9:30am - 4:00pm
The Hub of The Hills - Mundaring
FREE
Join Mundaring in Transition and the Shire of Mundaring as they host a variety of talks, presentations and workshops on issues of local sustainability, waste reduction and environmental care.
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Cloth in childcare: Workshop for EY settings
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Little VIPS Childcare - Lynwood
$5.00
Join Little Green Steps WA to support modern cloth nappy practices and processes in childcare. This workshop aims to dispel myths about cloth nappies and identify ways we can return to cloth nappy use in childcare, thereby reducing our harmful ecological footprint on this world.
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Thinking green: Worm farming
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Caversham Community centre
FREE
Kevin Smith from The Worm Shed presents on all aspects of worm farming and the role worms play in recycling and waste management. This is followed by a demonstration of setting up and maintaining a worm farm.
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Thinking Green: Sustainably stylish presentation & clothes swap
Saturday, 18 February 2023
10:30am - 12:30pm
Aveley Community Centre
FREE
Let the Style Counsellor teach you how to become sustainably stylish, to re-think and reduce textile waste and consider how to Buy Less, Buy Better, Look Better and Do Better.
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Great cocky count information session - Shire of Mundaring
Saturday, 18 February 2023
9:30am - 11:00am
Shire of Mundaring Civic Room
FREE
Come and Visit Beechboro Public Library located in the City of Swan and learn about urban wetlands, their inhabitants and how we can help protect these important ecosystems.
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Nature know-how: Aboriginal art and dreamtime stories
Saturday, 18 February 2023
11:00am - 12:30pm
Bullsbrook Public Library
FREE
Experience dot painting river stones to create a memory to take home while listening to Aboriginal Dreamtime stories and hearing about Aboriginal culture and life.
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Low waste living & shopping with the Wasteless Pantry
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
9:00am - 10:00amThe 5 Four Store
The 5 Four Store - Bassendean
$5.00 per ticket
Come along to an interactive workshop with Amanda from Wasteless Pantry on working toward a low waste lifestyle.
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Repair lab - City of Melville
Sunday, 26 February 2023
9:30am - 12:00pm
Piney Lakes Environmental
Education Centre - Winthrop
FREE
Repair Lab is a free community drop in event to help people fix their belongings and save things from going to landfill.
Find out more
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Modern cloth nappy workshop
Saturday, 4 March 2023
9:30am - 11:30am
Morley Library
FREE
Join City of Bayswater for this free, relaxed, family-friendly workshop, and learn about modern cloth nappies from birth to toilet training.
Find out more
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Nature Know-how: Cocky cartoon class
Saturday, 4 March 2023
10:30am - 11:15am
Ellenbrook Community Library
FREE
The City of Swan invites you to learn about Black Cockatoos thorough a fun and interactive activity and meet one of these beautiful but endangered birds.
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Gardening workshop series: Organic gardening for small spaces.
Saturday, 11 March 2023
5:30am - 6:30pm
Lyal Richardson Hall - Gosnells
FREE
Learn how you can grow food on your kitchen bench making sprouts, or on the verandah growing nutritious microgreens in a small pot. Vertical gardening using trellises will be also discussed.
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Thinking green: Refashioning your clothing
Saturday, 11 March 2023
11:00am - 12:30pm
Ballajura Public Library
FREE
Local creative Mariana Kirova from EcoFashionSewing.com will share first-hand tips, easy-to-follow system and refashion methods so you save, reuse and start creating beautiful eco-friendly clothing by applying basic sewing skills and using clothing you no longer wear.
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CLAW Environmental community tour
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
2:30pm - 4:00pm
CLAW Environmental - Welshpool
FREE
City of Canning residents - join the City's Waste & Recycling team for a tour of CLAW Environmental in Welshpool and find out how different plastics are processed, pelletised, and manufactured into new recycled plastic products.
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Pillowcase bibs: Sew Sustainable Saturdays
Saturday, 18 March 2023
9:30am - 11:30am
Byford Library
FREE
The Serpentine Jarrahdale Shire Library (providing sewing machines and overlocker) and Waste Education Officer Polly will be hosting FREE beginners sewing lessons (BYO used fabric to repurpose). SEW SUSTAINABLE!!
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Thinking green: Mend and fix to enjoy again
Saturday, 18 March 2023
11:00am - 2:00pm
Ballajura Public Library
FREE
This workshop with the local upcycler Mariana Kirova of EcoFashionSewing.com will empower you with hand and machine sewing skills on valuable fixes, darning, invisible and more creative visible mending techniques.
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Thinking Green: Refashioning men’s button-down shirts
Saturday, 25 March 2023
11:00am - 2:00pm
Ballajura Public Library
FREE
This workshop presented by local upcycler Mariana Kirova of EcoFashionSewing.com will explore how the classic button-down shirt can be reimagined in a flattering woman’s design
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