Have your say: Greater Hume Council proposed tree clearing
2024-08-01 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online
Greater Hume Council wants to seal an existing dirt road – Jelbart Road, Jindera. The existing remnant vegetation by the road provides a corridor for wildlife.

The stretch of road to be sealed is only around 1.5km long and Council has indicated that they propose to remove somewhere between 80-90 trees of various DBHs and distances from the centre of the existing road. Some clearly cannot be a threat to falling onto the road as their main trunk leans towards the private landholding.

The proposal does not align with Council’s vision of “valuing community assets including natural resources”. Nor its commit to an “urban forest” environment.

The area is a known corridor for squirrel gliders, and a range of other hollow dependent fauna. It also a seed collection area used by the Local Land Services.

Please email Council – mail@greaterhume.nsw.gov.au and urge them at least to change the proposal so that the road still get sealed, but significantly few trees are removed and any trees that are hollow bearing have the hollows kept on site and placed within the existing remnants at a height of at least three metres.

You have until August 6th.

Repair Cafe Albury-Wodonga Inc
2024-08-03 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-09-07 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-10-05 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-02 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-12-07 10:00 - 13:00 | Wodonga Senior Citizens Centre, 15 Havelock Street, Wodonga, Victoria, 3690, Australia
Do you have a broken household item you’d like fixed but need a hand to do so? Then this is your opportunity.
Our Repair Café is a free meeting place to bring along broken household items such as furniture, clothing, textiles and battery-operated appliances and learn how to fix them with the help of experienced, volunteer repairers. You can also bring along small, blunt garden tools like secateurs and we’ll show you how to sharpen them. Maximum three items per person per session. A donation is greatly appreciated for the repair of your items. This covers the cost of our insurance and supplies used for these repairs.
For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/repaircafeaw/
Repair Café Albury-Wodonga is proudly supported by Halve Waste, with morning yummies donated by Kooka Brotha’s patisserie.

Banking on Trees Community Planting Morning
2024-08-04 09:00 - 11:00 | Carrolls Lane, Wodonga, Paddock off Carrolls Lane, Wodonga, 3690
Join the team from WAW and Parklands Albury Wodonga in our Banking on Trees planting day on Sunday 4 August, 9am-11am.
What to bring: Closed shoes and long pants as the ground is uneven and might be muddy.

What will be provided:
• All tools, equipment, materials, and gloves (unless you want to bring your own gloves).
• BBQ lunch will include sausages, bread, and sauce. Those with special dietary requirements, please BYO.
Where: Paddock off Carrolls Lane, Wodonga. Go past the Wodonga Railway Station for approximately 980 m following the signs and park in the paddock. See map on event website.
About this event: Did you know that every time an account is opened at BankWAW, they plant a tree?
Trees create endless amounts of good. They clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and provide habitat to over 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity.
Planting a tree is also one of the easiest and cheapest ways to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis. It’s also the easiest way that we, as individuals, can reduce our own footprint.
BankWAW’s Banking on Trees program is revegetating the bushland of our local communities, contributing to a better climate, supporting biodiversity, and creating better living conditions for our local communities.

CANCELLED: North East Regional Sustainability Alliance (NERSA) Bi-monthly meeting
2024-08-12 10:00 - 12:00 | CSU Go TAFE Wangaratta Campus, Tone Road, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Please note this meeting has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience.
The North East Regional Sustainability Alliance (NERSA) is a network of community sustainability groups which acts collaboratively with communities, agencies and organisations across the region. Meetings are held every two months. Anyone is welcome to attend.
This meeting will be held in the video-conference room at the GoTAFE/CSU campus in Wangaratta. You may join us face to face or zoom in. Please contact Jenny Davies for the zoom link. Email address: jdjbdavies@gmail.com

Community Planting Day
2024-08-18 09:00 - 11:00 | Carrolls Lane, Wodonga, Paddock off Carrolls Lane, Wodonga, 3690
Join Parklands Albury Wodonga for a Community Planting Day. This is a free event open to all ages.
What to bring: Closed shoes and long pants as the ground is uneven and might be muddy.

What will be provided: All tools, equipment, materials, and gloves (unless you want to bring your own gloves).
Where: Paddock off Carrolls Lane, Wodonga. Go past the Wodonga Railway Station for approximately 980 m following the signs and park in the paddock. See map on event website.
About this event: After recently installing fencing to exclude stock from the wetland area, the site is now ready for winter planting of native seedlings to revegetate this Murray River corridor.

MONTHLY REPAIR CAFE HASTINGS WORKSHOP
2024-08-18 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-15 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-17 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Hastings Community Hub, 1973 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Hastings, 3915
The Repair Cafe is a place where skilled volunteers fix, repair and mend household & personal items for reuse or repurpose. This helps pass on special skills and keeps the circular economy going in the community and items out of landfill. We are a not-for-profit community organisation which relies on kind donations from the community to also keep us going. Kids activities and light refreshments are available as part of the Repair Cafe services. We are currently running just one session per month (usually on the third Sunday of each month) at The Hastings Community Hub. We have a great group of volunteers but are also seeking more volunteers to assist in all areas of operating the Repair Cafe (on site and behind the scenes) as our visitor numbers grow. Training provided. Please inquire if interested in helping out or attending one of our next repair sessions – we would love to meet you!

Street Harvest
2024-09-30 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-07 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-14 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-21 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-28 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-11-04 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-11-11 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-11-18 09:00 - 12:30 and 4 more dates | Uniting, Wodonga, 1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga, Vic, 3690, Australia
‘Street Harvest’ was a pilot project developed in Wodonga in 2010. The Street Harvest Project grew out of a passion for transforming the local food system into one that is sustainable and strong.
The project builds and encourages community capacity and improves food security for Wodonga residents by distributing excess fruit and vegetables, harvested from residential gardens, to local residents and emergency food relief agencies.
The project is being reinvigorated – Please consider growing an extra row of produce in your garden to support this project and Uniting in Wodonga.
All produce can be dropped off at Uniting (1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga between. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday to Friday).

North East Regional Sustainability Alliance (NERSA) Bi-monthly meeting
2024-10-08 10:00 - 12:00 | CSU Go TAFE Wangaratta Campus, Tone Road, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
The North East Regional Sustainability Alliance (NERSA) is a network of community sustainability groups which acts collaboratively with communities, agencies and organisations across the region. Meetings are held every two months. Anyone is welcome to attend.
This meeting will be held in the video-conference room at the GoTAFE/CSU campus in Wangaratta. You may join us face to face or zoom in. Please contact Jenny Davies for the zoom link. Email address: jdjbdavies@gmail.com

Australian Association of Environmental Education (NSW Chapter) Conference
2024-10-09 - 2024-10-11 | Hybrid: Charles Sturt University (CSU), Thurgoona campus and Zoom, Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona, NSW, Australia
We invite you to join other environmental education leaders at the 36th Environmental Education NSW Conference 2024, being hosted at Charles Sturt University, Albury campus in Wiradjuri Country. The campus provides the perfect setting to connect with each other in sustainably designed buildings with natural woodland and wetland areas, a community garden and walking tracks.
Be inspired by stories of collaboration, empowerment and learning for change. Our goal is for you to:

Gain collective insights in your area of expertise.
Build connections with like-minded people.
Walk away with one action you will take away or one thing you will do differently based on what you learn.

The topics for 2024 include wellbeing and resilience, agriculture as a climate and nature repair solution, social justice, designing learning for change and active hope.
A copy of the program is available at nsweeconference.org.au.
The conference is catered to delegates from a range of sectors including community educators, local, state and federal government agencies, schools and early learning, universities, NGOs, business and industry. Students and young adults are encouraged to attend and participate.
See: Welcome – Environmental Education NSW Conference (nsweeconference.org.au)
Tickets and more information: https://events.humanitix.com/36th-environmental-education-conference-nsw-albury-2024

John Paul Memorial Lecture - Deep nature connection: caring for nature in crisis
2024-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Online
‘We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense’ – Louv.
Nature needs us more than ever – and we need nature. As we face the increasing biodiversity crisis fuelled by environmental destruction and climate change, deepening our connection with nature is vital. By deepening our understanding of nature, we can better protect it.
How do we encourage more people to connect with nature? How do we inspire people to care? And how does this relate to private land conservation and restoration efforts across Victoria and Australia more broadly?
On 17 October, 7pm AEST, join us for a free webinar on Zoom to hear from three experts whose work focuses on human-nature connection: Lily van Eeden, Claire Dunn and Fiona Murdoch.

2024 End-Of-Year Celebration at the Albury Botanic Gardens
2024-12-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Albury Botanic Gardens
2024 was another huge year for your ACF-AWR group and we are extremely proud of our achievements.
We hope you will join us in an end-of-year celebration at the beautiful Albury Botanic Gardens.
We’ll reflect on our many achievements in 2024 and consider what we might be doing in 2025.
We’d love to hear from you about things you’d like to see your ACF-AWR group doing in 2025 – we love hearing from you with your great feedback and ideas.
Come along, join us, and have a lovely day enjoying the beautiful gardens and the company of like-minded people.
Where: Albury Botanic Gardens, Corner of Dean Street and Wodonga Pl, Albury NSW 2640
Look for the ACF Banner
When: Saturday 14 December, 12 – 3 pm
Find more information about visiting the gardens and accessibility and conditions of use.
What to bring: Your lunch, something to drink (no alcohol), clothes suitable for the weather, closed shoes, sunscreen, mosquito repellent
Other things you may like to bring: A chair, binoculars, camera
What you can’t do or bring: Alcohol, cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading, horses, ball sports and dogs are not permitted in the Gardens
RSVP now to let us know you’re joining us. We look forward to seeing you!
The ACF-AWR Team
Photo by Sandra Rosin
