Permaculture designer, firefighter and home builder Hamish MacCallum presents a free Zoom webinar on Wednesday 16th Sept at 12.30pm for BREAZE Inc. on how to best prepare your property for the fire season. This presentation is also in association with Sustainable House Day.

A link to the Zoom meeting was sent out to your registered email address a few days before. The event was also be livestreamed to the Smart Living Ballarat Facebook Page. See the video https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=345384939847265

Sustainability in the time of Covid 19

Don't forget to catch this special SLB talk live on FaceBook.

Date: Wednesday 15th April
Time: 12.30 - 1.30 pm
Venue: Exclusively live-streamed online at https://www.fb.com/smartlivingballarat 

COVID 19 gives us an opportunity  to fundamentally change the way we do things going forward. Steve Burns, founder of Ballarat Permaculture Guild, and owner of Chestnut Farm Cooperative, will talk about, in this exclusively live-streamed presentation, the practical and life enriching things we can do to live a more environmentally sustainable, locally focused and frugal life over this period where we are ‘stuck’ at home.

Don't forget that the event will be available on FaceBook even if you miss the live presentation.

During the COVID 19 restrictions Smart Living Ballarat will still be attempting to provide your monthly lunch time talks on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.  

Sustainability Workshops - Wed 19th February
Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm  
Venue: Eastwood Leisure Complex, 20 Eastwood St, Ballarat Central

Gardens for Wildiife Ballarat

Gardens for Wildlife Ballarat is a free, community-based gardening program that helps people provide wildlife-friendly spaces in their gardens

Live streamed on Facebook

Achieving a more Sustainable Urban Water Cycle

Saturday 23rd March

7:30 - 8:30

Ballarat mechanics Institute

A free Special event for World Water Day

Presented By :- Prof. Tim Fletcher.  The University of Melbourne

Bookings : https://renewablewater.eventbrite.com.au

As part of Sustainable House Day in Ballarat, we are organising a brief talk on sustainable house design.  

We are also inviting several architects, designers, builders etc to come along so they can answer your questions on designing / building your environmentally friendly house.    The people who are opening their houses on Sustainable House Day have also been invited.   

Come along and find out what is happening with sustainable housing in Ballarat, and talk to the experts!

Wednesday 21st February at 12:30 - 1:30

at the Ballarat library

Full of Energy: Community Power Hub Unleashed

Come and find out about the projects that have been identified for feasibility studies as Community Power Hub projects in the Ballarat region, including the flagship project. You can also gain a better idea of what the local community powerhub is offering. We will also be looking for more great community energy projects ideas/proposals to add the investigation pipeline.

For information on Community Power Hubs

Wednesday 17th January at 12:30 - 1:30

at the Ballarat library

Session Postponed

Making the Most of Water

Due to unforseen circumstances this talk has to be postponed.   It will be rescheduled later in the year.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Wednesday 20th December at 12:30 - 1:30

at the Ballarat library

Find Your Eco Group

Find Your Eco Group

Come and hear local eco-group representatives introduce and describe their activities.  A chance to network, join in, make plans and celebrate a year of Smart Living in Ballarat.

Short Presentations by

• Ballarat Permaculture Guild
• Ballarat Environment Network
• The Hidden Orchard
• Ballarat climate Action
• Seeding Victoria
• Boomerang Bags, Buninyong
• Ballarat Community Garden
• RSA Ballarat
• Ballarat Greens
• Field Naturalists Club