Unplugged + Uncomplicated = Trees

Music For Trees is back to program our next Unplugged and Uncomplicated gig on Saturday 27 August. Its an awesome line up of talented, local artists including Jordan Leser, Andy Golledge, Les Deux Violettes and John Dixon.

To celebrate we’re going to help them plant some more trees! All you have to do is Like Music For Trees’ facebook page and they’ll plant a tree for you - on us.

One Click = One Tree.

The trees planted through Music For Trees events restore life to environmentally degraded land and improve the quality of life of thousands of communities around the world through community managed, agroforestry based, Garden Forest Projects. In just one year, the support for Music For Trees has planted over 60,000 trees.

So join us on Saturday 27 August from noon til 5pm to enjoy a free afternoon of music, over a coffee or glass of wine in the CarriageWorks cafe.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY SHOW
To celebrate World Environment Day, our friends at Music For Trees are hosting an epic event featuring world renowned environmentalist Dr Jane Goodall, and a host of other cool environmental thinkers. The event will be supported by a fab musical lineup, spread over two great venues!

DATE Sunday 5 June
TIME 4pm - 12pm
LOCATION Red Rattler and Camelot in Marrickville

DR JANE GOODALL AT CARRIAGEWORKS
In celebration the United Nations’ Year of the Forest, the Dr Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is presenting an exhibition at CarriageWorks. The exhibition Saving our Forests: The Trees of Life features over 25 Australian artists including Carlos Barrios, Peter Griffin, Alan Jones, Denise Lithgow, Justin Perason, Claire Waring and Greg Wilson.

Dr Jane Goodall will be opening the exhibition on World Environment Day, Sunday 5 June. The opening is a ticket event, tickets go on sale Wednesday 25 May here. Funds raised from opening night tickets and artwork sales will be invested into the JGI forestation programs in Africa.

DATE Saturday 4 - Saturday 18 June
LOCATION Bay 19, CarriageWorks
TIME Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm, Closed Sundays

CarriageWorks’ Sustainable Works | Saturday 28 May

This month there’s two more great workshops you can get involved in with CarriageWorks Sustainable Works. Workshops are from 10am - 12pm. You can register from 8.30am at CarriageWorks’ barn doors, opposite Eveleigh Farmers’ Markets. Class sizes are limited, first in, first served.

Workshop 1. Myrtle Street Walking Tour
Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs will take workshop-ers on a walking tour of the sustainable street gardens of Myrtle Street, Chippendale.

Workshop 2. Behind Eveleigh Farmers’ Market
Get to know the in’s and out’s of the Eveleigh Farmers’ Markets, meet and greet local NSW farmers and artisan food producers, sample seasonal produce, and watch a pasta making demonstration.

Don’t Miss ~ TedxSydney Forum
If you’re coming down for a Sustainable Works workshop, stick around and watch the live simulcast of TEDxSydney in the CarriageWorks foyer. The TedxSydney Forum includes: Q&A sessions, where you can engage directly with the speakers; video interviews with TEDxSydney participants (maybe including you!); and live music and performances. Best of all its FREE! If you’d like to know more about TEDxSydney head to our website.

Set aside from 10am - 12pm on Saturday 30 April for the next batch of valuable workshops in CarriageWorks’ Sustainable Works, a series of free community workshops all exploring creative sustainability.

Workshop 1. Earthly Delights
Is your dirt being difficult? Expert Ichsani will teach you the basics to getting the most out of your soil.

Workshop 2. Getting Weedy
Diego from Weedy takes you foraging for common weeds that can be used for food and medicine.

Workshop 3. Reverse Robots
Get robotic with it! Create retro, rad robot masks and outfits out of recycled and repurposed goods with Reverse Garbage.

DATE: Saturday 30 April
TIME: 10am – 12pm (Kitchen Garden Club from 9am)
LOCATION: CarriageWorks 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh  (Nearest Train Redfern or Macdonaldtown)
COST: Free!
REGISTRATION: To participate in a Workshop you must register from 8.30am on the day. Class sizes are limited, first in best dressed.
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WANT MORE?  CarriageWorks’ Uncomplicated + Uncomplicated live music series kicks off in the Foyer from noon on the same day.

CarriageWorks’ Sustainable Works kicks-off this Saturday 26 March from 10am. It’s is a series of free community workshops exploring creative sustainability! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/fb67Cy

Eco-Friendly Seating

On Monday I visited the Switch Digital Arts Centre at the Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) in Parramatta. It’s an awesome creative space for emerging artists and entrepreneurs to collaborate, experiment and explore digital technologies.

Whist there I was also stopped-short by some fab eco-friendly cardboard/foam chairs in the centre’s foyer. Google tells me the chairs were created by local designer Arthur Koutoulas. Now I just need to find somewhere in my house to put one…or two.

Estelle

Open Day at Michael Mobbs’ Sustainable House

To celebrate the publication of the second edition of the book, Sustainable House, and to make the information about it more widely available, I’m offering a special tour of the house on two Saturdays, 16 and 23 October 2010.

Tours commence at 11 am and finish at 12 noon. 

The tours will show what’s happened after 14 years of living in a sustainable house.  The tours will explain some of the data which is in the book.  The book will be provided on the tour as part of the tour.

• What’s happened after 1.5 million litres of sewage has gone into the garden?
• How have the solar panels lasted after 14 years?
• What’s worked and what hasn’t?
• How has the house saved over $30,000 in water and energy bills?
• We’ll also look at how we’re growing food in the road gardens and how the compost bins and other gardening is coming along as Spring growth takes hold.

Cost is $55 for the tour and the book (which retails at $45).

Bookings essential by email to:  info@sustainablehouse.com.au

Cameras welcome!

See you there, at the little house that could … and yours can, too …

Oh, and check out this terrific video of the splitting of the beehive here a few weeks ago by Peter Clarke. 

More info about Sustainable House at sustainablehouse.com.au

Michael

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CarriageWorks is extremely lucky to be working with Michael Mobbs on all aspects of our Sustainable Works Project. 

Michael Mobbs is a Sustainability Coach, former Environment Lawyer and author of Sustainable House. Michael provided invaluable advice and insight at the early stages of the Sustainable Works project and has continued working with CarriageWorks as the coordinator of the Kitchen Garden Project and as an ongoing consultant with long term renewable energy projects. Michael’s imagination, humour, wide range of experience and his willingness to take risks, really shaped the direction of the Sustainable Works Project and lead to goals and benchmarks that may otherwise seemed impossible; such as the Edible Office Garden. More info here.