A Year in a Day Blog

Master of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health University of Notre Dame, School of Medicine Climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss present urgent, complex challenges to human health and to health systems. This new Master of Public and Environmentally Sustainable Health equips you with the essential public health skills and specialised… Read more: EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Two Wolves Digest call for submissions. They publish content that is funny, chaotic, silly, surreal, satirical and crude. They also seek out content that is smart, thoughtful, considered, and kind. Two Wolves Digest occupies the space between low brow and high brow culture. 6 submission cycles per year. _ Create NSW Small… Read more: EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST, GRANTS, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Flexible/ Multiple Location Horticulture Researcher, Gardening Australia ABC (8 October) Regional Conservation Officer, Biodiversity Conservation Trust (2 October) Program Support Officer, Biodiversity Conservation Trust (2 October) Carbon Project Manager – Productive Ag, Climate Friendly Bush Regeneration Crew Members, Toolijooa Environmental Restoration Bush Regeneration and Revegetation, Greater West Landscapes Tree Planters… Read more: Positions available in the Blue Mountains and Lithgow

Officer Urban Weeds (2 positions) – V22/5644 Position Description The Officer Urban Weeds will work as part of a dedicated team to improve the environmental condition of the City of Blue Mountains by participating in strategic weed control planning and conducting regulatory inspections of private land and land managed by… Read more: Officer Urban Weeds

Program Leader Tourism Development – V22/5585 Applications close: 11 September Position Description   You will support and deliver sustainable tourism initiatives, liaise with the Blue Mountains Tourism industry and forge strong partnerships, act as a point of contact and provide specialist knowledge on tourism related matters, within and external to Council, build… Read more: Tourism Development

Swampcare  – North Hazelbrook Friday 23 September @ 9am-3pm Join a group of locals passionate about protecting the swamp at North Hazelbrook. Bookings essential here by Monday 19th September for catering purposes. The Blue Mountains Planetary Health Pluriversity is part of Blue Mountains City Council’s Planetary Health Initiative. Find out… Read more: Swampcare – North Hazelbrook

Swampcare – Kittyhawke Wentworth Falls Friday 25th November @ 9am – 3pm Join a group of locals passionate about protecting the swamp in Wentworth Falls. Bookings essential here by Monday 21st November for catering purposes. The Blue Mountains Planetary Health Pluriversity is part of Blue Mountains City Council’s Planetary Health… Read more: Swampcare – Wentworth Falls

  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: April 12

  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: April 11

  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: April 10

  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: April 9

  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: April 8

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: April 7

  PREPARING TO PROTECT MY SEEDLINGS We need resilience to cope with the impacts of climate change, and we need the courage, skills and tools to help us keep going as we work to restore planetary health. Today I finished off a bottle of New Zealand Vodka and, with my… Read more: April 6

  DARN! There is something so satisfying about tackling something I’ve procrastinated over for a very long time. I love wearing black pure wool skivvies, but I think the moths love them as much as I do, and sometimes my gardening life plays havoc with them as well. Today I… Read more: April 5