Whether you want to build
a sustainable home, are passionate about locally-grown food, want to run an
energy-efficient business or need help to go solar – the Sustainable Living
Festival has it all!
The Sustainable Living
Festival runs from October 13-17 and incorporates a series of events including
Ride to Work Day, a special Growers market with Garden Guru Phil Dudman and chef
and broadcaster Julie Ray, a screening of ‘Food Inc’ at the Jetty Memorial
Theatre and the Botanica Spring Festival at the
Regional
Botanic Garden .
Plus – on Saturday,
October 16, the Botanic Garden also plays host to a day of FREE Sustainability
Workshops.
There are 12 workshops in
total, covering a huge range of topics including:
·
Farming in a Carbon Future by Greg Reid, Department of
Primary Industry. He looks at the challenges and opportunities to sustainable
farming posed by climate change and carbon trading.
·
Landshare
Australia and its Local Application
by Garden Guru Phil Dudman and Tom Hackett. Landshare
Australia brings
together people who have a passion for locally-grown food, to people who have
land to share.
·
Building with Industrial Hemp by Klara Marosszeky. Learn
how to use hemp as a sustainable building material.
·
Energy Efficiency in Business by Matt Parnell of Green
Synergy Consulting. A workshop that explores ways to reduce energy usage in
small business.
·
City of Hope : Towards
Sustainable living in
Coffs
Harbour by award-winning local architect
Reiner Schimminger. He will explore the issues surrounding sustainable living
and building.
SEAT ARE LIMITED - BOOK NOW via www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/slf
