For HOme + you
Simple tips
How to Advice + tips
Support + IDEAS
Tips for the home to save you money and reduce your impact on the environment.
Support + IDEAS
How to Advice + tips
Support + IDEAS
The RESEED Centre in Penguin Tasmania is a hub for positive change, supporting people to be healthy, live sustainably.
How to Advice + tips
How to Advice + tips
How to Advice + tips
Take small steps. Use energy and water more efficiently. Save money, lower emissions and make your home more comfortable.
St MArys Repurposing + Upcycling
Breathing new life into old clothing otherwise destined for landfill. Damaged clothes are upcycled with repairs. Other items are repurposed into shopping bags, garden ties, woven mats, pet bedding and toys etc.
All goods are sold at the St Marys Market with proceeds used to support group activities. Everyone is welcome, no skills required, all new ideas happily received.
Boomerang bags
Break O'Day joined the Boomerang Bag Community in 2017. The volunteers are passionate about making a difference and helping the environment. They meet every Friday from 2-4 pm at St Helens Neighbourhood House. They cut out material, sew, screen print, iron etc. The bags can be found in shops across our community.
Our aim is to reduce plastics in our region – the donations received for our bags are re-gifted to environmental projects.
Everyone welcome.
St Helens Auxiliary + Tip Shop
Saving items from landfill and raising funds for our local hospitals at the same time. The tip shop is run by volunteers and members of the Auxiliary. All proceeds raised go to both St Helens and St Marys Hospitals in various ways. There are many treasures to discover at the Tip Shop.
Thrive Community Garden
Find the garden at Eagle Street St Helens. A place to learn about growing food and connecting with community.
St marys Op Shop / Fabulous Emporium
Pre loved clothing and much much more at fabulous prices. All funds raised go to St Marys District School Association.
25a Main Street (Behind the Town Hall) St Marys, 7215.
St Helens School Association OP SHop
Pre loved clothing, bric-a-brac, bedding, costumes and more. All funds raised go to St Marys District School Association.
9 Circassian Street, St Helens, 7216.
St Helens Neighbourhood House OP SHop
Lots of bargains. Pre loved clothes, bric-a-brac, seasonal produce and flowers from Thrive Community Garden at great prices too.
St Helens Neighbourhood House. 25 Circassian St, St Helens, 7216.
Meet a local Tasmanian making a difference
Good life Permaculture
Permaculture is solution-based activism. Goodlife Permaculture centre their approach to life around the concept of radical homemaking, advocating for climate justice and fostering joy, fun and love in the process. They are all about education, community and design that helps create good lives and landscapes. Meet Hannah and her family and discover lots of ways to live the good life on their website.
Zero Waste Tasmania
Oberon and Lauren Carter formed this group in November 2015. Their family has produced almost no waste to landfill or kerbside recycling since 2015. Their book ‘A Family Guide to Waste-Free Living’ was released in March 2019 and is available at all good bookstores. Find lots of ideas and tips on the Facebook Group.
RETHINK WASTE
Helping Tasmanians to avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle.
Research shows that Tasmanians generate over 900,000 tonnes of waste each year. Most of this waste ends up in landfill, which is the least favourable outcome. Much could be reused, or treated differently to be reduced, recycled or even avoided altogether.
TerraCYCLE
TerraCYCLE
TerraCycle is an innovative waste management company that operates in 21 countries with a mission to Eliminate the Idea of Waste®. It is a global leader that partners with businesses, communities and individuals to move from a linear economy to a circular one.
TerraCycle creates new solutions for waste. Watch this clip to see how TerraCycle recycles beauty product waste.
Ideas for your Business
Tasmanian Advice for business
Be an Environmentally Friendly Business
Be an Environmentally Friendly Business
Renewables, Climate and Future Industries Tasmania (ReCFIT) is the key advisor to help shape Tasmania’s future while maintaining a secure, sustainable, and affordable energy system.
Be an Environmentally Friendly Business
Be an Environmentally Friendly Business
Be an Environmentally Friendly Business
Small businesses can work to be part of a circular economy where decisions and choices are made to eliminate waste and ensure resources are reused and recycled.
20 tips for Business
ASPIRE - Exchange waste as a resource
ASPIRE - Exchange waste as a resource
Tips to encourage businesses and organisations, no matter how big or small, to start embedding sustainability into business as usual.
ASPIRE - Exchange waste as a resource
ASPIRE - Exchange waste as a resource
ASPIRE - Exchange waste as a resource
An online marketplace for businesses to buy and sell excess goods and 'waste' to each other.
Learn + Teach
Curious Climate Schools - Tas
Curious Climate Schools - Tas
Curious Climate Schools - Tas
Their team of climate scientists, conservation biologists, fire scientists, chemists, lawyers, engineers, psychologists, social scientists, oceanographers, Indigenous knowledge specialists and health experts, answered 167 questions about climate change in 2023.
Resources For Schools
Curious Climate Schools - Tas
Curious Climate Schools - Tas
Resources and lesson plans for teachers and educators. Curriculum based learning about a sustainable future.
Permaculture Design Course
Curious Climate Schools - Tas
Permaculture Design Course
Learn to design landscapes good for people and planet. Tasmania’s expert permaculture education provider, committed to facilitating meaningful and high quality learning. They have REALLY applied their heads, hearts and hands to create this course to be one of the best permaculture adult education experiences available.
Teaching manuals
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES
Permaculture Design Course
Waste and sustainability education resources for Primary School aligned to the Australian Curriculum.
Diploma in Sustainability
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES
Learn about sustainability on a local, national and international level, and align your studies with what sustainable living means for you. The multi-disciplinary nature of this course draws upon environment and ecology, resource use and design for living and wellbeing and health to promote sustainable living.
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES
In this free-of-charge massive open online course (MOOC), find out how people around the world are building resilience to disasters and climate change impacts through nature-based solutions.
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AND WASTE HUB
Creating more sustainable communities and reducing waste impact through innovation and circular-based economies.
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
BUILDING RESILIENCE
NORTHERN TASMANIAN ALLIANCE FOR RESILIENT COUNCILS
Northern Tasmania's eight councils have collaborated on, and jointly invested in, a new three-year climate resilience initiative, to be known as the Northern Tasmanian Alliance for Resilient Councils.
The NTARC comprises representatives from the Break O'Day, City of Launceston, Dorset, Flinders, George Town, Meander Valley, Northern Midlands and West Tamar Councils.
The NTARC's aim is to assist member councils to better understand and respond to the changing climate and a wide range of associated social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges.
Break O'Day Mayor Mick Tucker said the Northern Tasmanian Alliance for Resilient Councils was a first for Tasmania. "This is the first time in our State that an entire region has come together strategically to attempt to tackle this complex and challenging issue," Cr Tucker said. "This is a great opportunity for councils to collaborate and work together across municipal boundaries to address climate change as a region. This holistic approach will allow us to share knowledge resources and solutions that the whole northern region and its environment and communities can benefit from.”
Drought ReadY Tasmania
Regional Drought Resilience Planning Program
The Tasmanian Government recognises the importance of farmers and communities being more prepared for, and resilient to, the impacts of drought, as climate change leads to increased incidence of extreme events such as drought.
Over the next two years regional project coordinators will be working in regions to engage and partner with regional development authorities, local government, industry, business and community stakeholders to develop a regional plan.
Northern Regional Drought Resilience Planning is underway. People representing local government, agricultural businesses, natural resource management, health and community services can be part of the region's planning advisory group that will provide advice for the development of the Northern Region's Drought Resilience Plan.
IMAGE CREDIT: Brand Tasmania
Introducing the sustainable development goals
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were adopted in 2015 by the United Nations. They are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
LEarn About the SDGs here
Learn all about the Sustainable Development Goals in this simple 20 min FREE online course.
Our Shared Future
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Passionate people enabling the circular economy in Tasmania by sharing resources and information; promoting stories; and creating opportunities for professionals to connect across sectors with the aim of sharing experiences, ideas, and creating solutions.
Australia remade
Australia reMADE is on a mission to support ambitious, collaborative, and transformative change-makers to reMAKE more of the world we want.
Measure your Footprint
The Ecological Footprint© is the only metric that measures how much nature we have and how much nature we use. The Footprint can help...
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