FREE for residents of Randwick - Term 2, 2012
Join one of our courses:
Bookings essential with City East Community College
or email Council's Sustainability Education Officer; fiona.campbell@randwick.nsw.gov.au or Council's 3-Council Ecological Footprint Project Officer; richard.wilson@randwick.nsw.gov.au
- Live better with less energy and more comfort
- Creating a Permaculture orchard
- Creating Ecocentres
- Balcony gardening
- Participatory Skills for Sustainable Futures
Live better with less energy and more comfort - one session - Randwick Council.
Living with lower energy use means less carbon pollution, less expenditure of your income and more joy of discovery in your life. Join this session and together we will discover those simple things you can do in and around your home to make these things happen.
We look at making your home more comfortable in both winter and summer while reducing your energy use and your spending on energy. It's all about smart, modern living, not doing without but better doing better with what we have.
You will be able to borrow the 'Save Power Kit' from Randwick Libraries to help.
DATE : Tuesday 1 May 2012
TIME: 6:30 pm to 8.30 pm
WHERE : Vonnie Young Auditorium at the Bowen Library, 669-673 Anzac Parade, Maroubra NSW 2035
BOOKING ESSENTIAL : http://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/lessemc
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Creating a Permaculture orchard - runs over 5 Saturday afternoons - Randwick Council.
It's a win-win offering. Attend the food forest design course and take away the knowledge to create your own food forest in your home or community garden, no matter how small, while your learning helps us design and plant out the PIG garden (Permaculture Interpretive Garden, the educational garden at the Randwick Community Centre).
Led by professional designers experienced in planning and building food production gardens using the principles of permaculture design, you will learn the design concepts for creating food forests; how to approach making your food forest through staged development; choice of plants suited to climate; irrigating your plantings; soil improvement; and pest management.
We'll look at how to design and stage the food forest's development and will develop a list of plants that you could use. After the course, you will be equipped to design, plan and plant your way to returning food production to our city as you become a true urban bioneer.
DATE : 5 sessions, Saturday's 5, 12, 19, 26 May 2 June 2012
TIME: 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm
WHERE : Randwick Community Centre, 27 Munda Street, Randwick (turn off Bundock Street into Hendy Avenue then right into Marida Street).
BOOKING ESSENTIAL : http://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/lessemc
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Creating Ecocentres - runs over 6 Thursday nights - Randwick Council.
This practical course is for teachers and parents involved in primary schools and early childhood centres. We will explore ways to use safe, chemical-reduced cleaning; develop food and native plant gardens; start a wormfarm; develop low waste strategies and improve energy and water use in our establishments.
You will meet inspiring guest speakers who will make use of the sustainability displays at the 'Sustainability Hub', such as the Water Wise Trail, rainwater tanks, solar energy systems, low-energy-use building fittings and the PIG-the Permaculture Interpretive Garden.
This is a course to renew your approach to sustainable practice at your school or centre, to enhance childrens' environmental learning through nature-based activities and to prepare to educate them as future innovators in a sustainable future.
DATE: 6 x Thursday 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 May 7 June 2012
TIME: 6.00 pm to 8.30 pm
WHERE : Randwick Community Centre, 27 Munda Street, Randwick (turn off Bundock Street into Hendy Avenue then right into Marida Street).
BOOKING ESSENTIAL: http://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/lessemc
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Balcony gardening - - runs over 2 Wednesday mornings - 3-Council
No garden? Just an apartment balcony or small courtyard? No worries, you can still participate in the food growing revolution by making best use of your limited space.
This is a two-morning workshop about growing plants, mainly food, on your balcony, in your courtyard or in containers anywhere.
We will learn how to choose a container, how to prepare an organic potting mix, when to water and apply organic fertiliser, when to transplant and what to grow in your container garden. You will go away knowing how to turn desolate balconies into mini-farms.
DATE: Wednesday's 9 & 16 May 2012
TIME: 9.30am - 12.30pm
WHERE: Barrett House, 6 Barrett Place Randwick
BOOKING ESSENTIAL : http://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/bakg
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Participatory Skills for Sustainable Futures - runs over 5 Saturday afternoons - Randwick Council
Here's your chance to learn those valuable participatory facilitation skills that will enable your community sustainability group to engage people in the growing conversation around our common future.
This course is for those of us who work where it counts and who want to work with people who want to learn. If you are involved in sustainability, community gardening or other innovative social groups, this course will equip you with the key skills for leading discussions with communities, planning future direction for groups, running public discussions at video screenings and having productive meetings that are fun and engaging. The course will enable you to engage in effective communication within groups and with the wider community.
Of particular use to leaders and members of community-based sustainability organisations such as Sustainability Street, Transition Towns, community gardens, permaculture, climate change, bicycle groups and bushcare volunteers, the Participatory Skills course is one of a number of community leadership courses offered by Randwick Council.
Do the course, discover your abilities in leadership and before long you will be out there leading your group in your own neighbourhood, and things will never be quite the same again.
DATE : 5 sessions, Saturday's 5, 12, 19, 26 May 2 June 2012
TIME: 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm
WHERE : Randwick Community Centre, 27 Munda Street, Randwick (turn off Bundock Street into Hendy Avenue then right into Marida Street).
BOOKING ESSENTIAL : http://www.cityeastcc.com.au/course/partsf
Would you like to contact your local sustainability community group?