It’s World Environment Day today, and as we celebrate living in a “Booming city built on sound principles of sustainability” we take a look at FREE EVENTS coming up in the local community that you might be interested in:
1 June – 28 July · Various Locations · Community Planting Season · Find your nearest planting
8 June · 8:45-11:30am · Lake Clifton · Seedling Giveaway
15 June · 9am-12.30pm · Pinjarra · Greening Australia · Planting in the Park
15 June · 2pm-3pm · Lakelands · Living Green Workshop · Make your own cleaning products
26 June · 6pm-8pm · Estuary Guardians / Mandurah Dolphin Research Project · The Health of our Dolphins
29 June · 11am-12pm · Falcon · Living Green Workshop · Make your own lip balm
29 June · 10am-1pm · Lakelands · Repair Café · Need something repaired/sewn/glued?
29 June · 2pm-3pm · Lakelands · Living Green Workshop · Make your own pamper products
30 June · 9am-11am · Halls Head · Matting and Planting at Samphire Cove Nature Reserve
JULY
1-31 July · Plastic Free July · Can you go a whole month without single-use plastic? · Take the challenge
11 July · 10am-12pm · Coodanup · Wetlands Walk with Sharon Meredith from PHCC and Birdlife Australia
13 July · 2pm-3pm · Lakelands · Living Green Workshop · Make your own kitchen wraps
18 July · 4pm-6pm · Mandurah · PHCC SHARE in the Shed · River Rescue: Bringing New Life to Our Estuary
21 July · 9am-10.30am · Halls Head · Mulching at Samphire Cove · Note that this event has been brought forward a week
25 July · 4.30-5.30pm · Mandurah Environmental Volunteer Alliance meeting · Make Place, Mandurah
25 July · 5.30-7.30pm · Plastic Free July Celebration · Make Place, Mandurah
27 July · 10am-1pm · Lakelands · Repair Café · Need something repaired/sewn/glued?
28 July · 10am-1.30pm · Coodanup · Drypoint and Chine-collé workshop with Monika Lukowska
28 July · 10am-2pm · Coodanup · National Tree Day at Frasers Landing · PLANT A TREE & VISIT OUR STALL!
Last but not least, if you would like to help fight the War on Waste, you can download the toolkit here.