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Sustainability News

Welcome to Sustainability News – Darebin's newsletter dedicated to all things environment and sustainability. Here you will find information about our environmental sustainability work, upcoming environmental sustainability events and workshops, sustainable living tips, local environmental projects and much more!

Darebin residents taking action on the Climate Emergency


As readers of Sustainability News will know, Darebin City Council declared a climate emergency on 5 December 2016. This emergency was declared in response to research by scientists which tells us that climate change is a dangerous threat to all life on the planet and that the earth is already too hot. We know in Darebin that we now experience more droughts, more localised flooding and increased heatwaves. You may have noticed these changes: maybe your garden blooms at different times, or your veggie patch is suffering from lack of rain, or maybe it is too hot for your kids to play outside in the summer. Around Australia, more intense and frequent extreme weather is hurting both urban and regional communities and costing vast sums of insurance money. The natural world is also seriously impacted - extinction rates are increasing here and around the world.

Incremental change and business as usual are not sufficient to face up to these climate challenges or to avoid catastrophic climate change in the future. We need to take action fast and we need to do it together.

Darebin council believes that we can restore a safe climate, allowing current and future generations and ecosystems to survive and thrive. Our Climate Emergency Plan has, at its heart, the understanding that we can find solutions locally, nationally and globally by working together. At the Climate Emergency Community Dinner, held at the Reservoir Learning Centre in May, nearly 80 community leaders from across Darebin came together to learn about the climate emergency and to discuss strategies for advocacy and creating change. 

The community leaders represented sporting and service clubs, environment groups, ethnic, faith and indigenous communities, neighbourhood houses, the arts and business, plus Council’s advisory groups. Talks about the climate emergency and what it means for our future provided background information and inspiration for some interactive, focused thinking and discussion about what we could do as individuals and as organisations. We explored which decision makers we might approach and ask to take action. And we discovered that there are huge range of actions we can all take to achieve an effective and meaningful response to the climate emergency. 

For inspiration, here’s a few examples of actions identified by community leaders at the dinner:
* Start 'Hairdressers for Climate Change Action'
* Get my apartment block to install solar
* Start a dialogue about climate emergency at work
* Declare a climate emergency at my business and call on staff to act on the climate emergency
* Dinner and climate conversations with my two pilates groups
* Join climate action groups
*  Visit local MPs with others to discuss the climate emergency 

We invite you to be part of a growing global movement which is demanding action and change in the face of the climate emergency. More information about the climate emergency and how you can become involved is available from Council’s website.

Council wants to continue to support community climate action. In particular we hope to reach 1000 people with the climate emergency message by 5 December this year, the third anniversary of the declaration. To sign up to learn more, to become involved, to let us know what action you are already taking, or that you intend to take, please email us at environment@darebin.vic.gov.au.

Winter hard waste and recycling collections are happening throughout June


Darebin’s Winter Hard Waste and Recycling collections are happening now! Collections go until 28th June, with different areas collected in different weeks. Look out for an information brochure in your letterbox. Your brochure will arrive two weeks before your collection, with loads of important information on when and how to place your items out to ensure that they’re collected and can be recycled, where possible.

Different types of items will be collected on different days during your collection week, so it’s important to remember: 
* Place your items out no earlier than 6am on the Saturday before your collection starts - and no later than 6am on the Monday of your collection week.
* Please do not add any items after 6am on the Monday of your collection week. 
* Items placed out late will not be collected.

For more information visit www.darebin.vic.gov.au/hardwaste or call 8470 8888.

Please try to give items in good condition a second life by repairing, reusing or passing them on to others. You could also try selling or swapping online, or taking items to the Darebin Resource Recovery Centre second-hand shop. 

Darebin Homemade Food and Wine Festival 


Don’t waste your e-waste, Darebin!


Have other household e-waste items to recycle? The Darebin Resource Recovery Centre accepts most other e-waste. There may be a charge for some items. More information on e-waste and the ban can be found at ewaste.vic.gov.au.

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Prima Materia

Saturday 11th May - Sunday 7th July 2019
Bundoora Homestead
Enquiries: www.bundoorahomstead.com/exhibition/prima-materia-2/ or email www.bundoorahomestead@darebin.vic.gov.au
 

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