Have a Sticky Beak at PepperGreen Farm
Home to Bendigo EcoLiving and Bendigo’s new EcoPods.
Presented as apart of the 2010 State of Design Festival Bendigo EcoLiving is open for you to visit and get inspired, on Sunday the 25th of July 10am – 2pm, 40-44 Thunder Street, Bendigo.
Bendigo EcoLiving presents an array of sustainable living options and technologies as well as demonstrations and guided tours with local sustainability experts for options to making your home a toasty green warm this winter.
EcoMASTER demonstrates low cost options to retrofit your windows to be double glazed and draft proof doors between 11am and 1pm.
EcoVillages worldwide hosts exclusive tours of Bendigo Access Employment carbon neutral Ecopods at 10.30am and 12.30am. Featuring sustainable design elements; orientation, insulation properties, solar power supply, indirect evaporative air conditioning featuring Coolerado, recycled building materials and ways to reduce the embodied energy of your building.
Bendigo Sustainability Group will be available for their shopping hour, where visitors to the farm are invited to shop around for how they might like to be apart of sustainable actions in their community from food sharing, solar energy, communications or celebrations.
Representatives from HRV present SolaMate, a product that harvests and boosts the natural energy of the sun providing a natural, passive heating and cooling alternative to conventional methods. Winner of the 2009 HIA Green Smart product of the year.
The Bendigo EcoLiving Centre is an initiative of not for profit agency Bendigo Access Employment, who provide quality and innovative solutions that connect people's abilities to opportunities in employment, training, business and a sustainable community future.
The EcoLiving Centres have been allocated by the Victorian Government from the Sustainability Fund as an initiative of Our Environment Our Future, Sustainability Action Statement 2006, to help Victorians to reduce their impact on the environment.
Winter in the Garden
Winter in the Garden a blog post by Ros Woodburn of LivingLightly Design
