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Keep Australia Beautiful 2010 Awards Closing Soon

Keep Australia Beautiful 2010 Awards Closing Soon

Celebrate and recognise the actions your community has taken to respond to climate change.

by Tamara Marwood — 05/03/2010 04:17 PM

Significant changes to Commonwealth environmental programs

Last week saw a great deal of changes happening to the Commonwealth environmental programs

by Tamara Marwood — 25/02/2010 04:09 PM

Built for the Bush moves to Albury

Built for the Bush moves to Albury

Built for the Bush, the travelling exhibition profiled in ReNew 110 is moving to Albury from February 12. The exhibition celebrates traditional rural building customs and shows how they have inspired contemporary sustainable housing. Settler practices of earth, timber and iron construction, water conservation and passive solar controls are now lauded for their energy efficiency.

by Tamara Marwood — 11/02/2010 03:23 PM

TREE PROJECT

Retree scheme The Tree project is looking for volunteers to propagate indigenous seedlings for farmers and landcare groups in rural Victoria

by Tamara Marwood — 07/02/2010 05:03 PM

Events

Earth Hour

Earth Hour

Earth Hour, Every Hour 8.30 pm, Saturday 27 March 2010

(World, from 27/03/2010 08:30 PM to 27/03/2010 09:30 PM)

Newstead Rocket Science and Paul Sinclair

Featuring Dr. Paul Sinclair, Healthy Ecosystems Program Manager with the Australian Conservation Foundation. Visit the Rocket Science blog at for details of this and future sessions planned for 2010.

(Dig Cafe Newstead, from 28/03/2010 03:30 PM to 28/03/2010 05:00 PM)

Growing the Harvest Festival

A weekend of workshops, displays and celebration of the Harvest.

(Castlemaine, from 10/04/2010 12:00 AM to 11/04/2010 12:00 AM)

Growing the Harvest Festival

There will be gardening and food workshops but the full program has not been decided yet.

(Castlemaine, from 10/04/2010 12:00 AM to 11/04/2010 12:00 AM)

Living In Heritage Houses Today

New Free Lecture Series For Mount Alexander Shire And The Wider Region A free four part lecture series focused on residential heritage housing– will take place in on Wednesday evenings at 7.15 pm on April 14th, 21st, and 28th and 5thMay

(Castlemaine’s Phee Broadway Theatre , from 14/04/2010 07:15 PM to 05/05/2010 09:00 AM)

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