Weaving with Weeds Blue Mountains Bushcare Friday 5 August 10.00am to 1.00pm Planetary Health Clubhouse @ the old Katoomba Golf Course, Acacia Street, Katoomba We need to protect our native species from invasive Honeysuckle so we’re harvesting these weeds and transforming them into baskets for each participant to take home. Read more…
Upcycling & Recycling with the Blue Mountains Women’s Shed Saturdays 10.30am to 12.30pmPlanetary Health Clubhouse @ the old Katoomba Golf Course, Acacia Street Katoomba A series of workshops for women to learn how to use tools, to upcycle and to recycle! Whether you’d like to make Wildlife Shelters, learn how Read more…
How to Worm Farm Saturday 3 September 1pm – 2pmSpringwood Court Function Room, 133 Macquarie Rd, SpringwoodThis is a Free workshop No space for a compost bin and not sure where or how to start? Then this workshop is for you! Worm farming is not only ideal for small spaces Read more…
How to Compost Saturday 3 September 11.30am to 12.30pmSpringwood Court Function Room, 133 Macquarie Rd, SpringwoodThis is a Free workshop Are you interested in learning how to compost? Not sure where or how to start? Then this workshop is for you! Learn how to compost and use food scraps the way Read more…
Love Food Waste Saturday 3 September 10.00am – 11.00amSpringwood Court Function Room, 133 Macquarie Rd, SpringwoodThis is a Free workshop Want to learn how you could save up to $4,000 per year by simply planning and making clever choices when buying food, and using leftovers? Well this workshop is for Read more…
A YEAR IN A DAY CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT DRAWS TO A CLOSE I’d like to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who’s participated in A Year in a Day since 1 January this year. Together, Council and Communities, in Australia AND Timor, have explored and taken actions to Read more…
PLANT-BASED ICE CREAMS It’s Autumn raspberry season, so I immediately crave ice cream to accompany my berries. When I visited the local supermarket I was pleasantly surprised by the range of plant-based ice creams now available. My action for today was to research the products on the market and Read more…
WE ARE NATURE It’s been over 15 months since the fires swept through the Mountains, and life and death are juxtaposed as matter cycles endlessly. Today’s action for A Year In A Day was to commit to sharing a daily photo of this extraordinarily exquisite world we live in Read more…
TODAY’S NEW ACTION As we take the individual actions that are the beginning of all cultural and system change, it’s important to have a sense of how these actions are part of the bigger changing picture of our future. For my new action today, I’m going to start sharing Read more…
REJUVENATING RUSTY TOOLS If I were an investor at the moment I think I’d invest in vinegar! We’ve gone through large bottles of it for cleaning away mould, and today I used it to tackle rust. Many of our garden tools have gone rusty in this wet season, so Read more…
WORLD HEALTH DAY On World Health Day we reached, and exceeded, our target of 365 new actions to restore planetary health in a day – thanks to the extraordinary efforts of all the dedicated people who made such an effort to be part of this community groundswell demanding urgent action Read more…