Blue Mountains Planetary Health Day

We know how overloaded everyone feels so we’re holding a PLANETARY HEALTH DAY on Saturday 24 February (9am-3pm). It will be a one-stop shop and fun Community Day at the Planetary Health Precinct to help you tick off all those sustainability and disaster risk reduction goals on your to-do list.

It’s an opportunity to visit the Planetary Health Precinct and find ways to save money, reduce disaster risk, and restore the health of our community and planet!

We’ll be launching a WATER TANK COMMUNITY BULK BUY so you can order discounted water tanks. Other highlights of the day will include:

• a First Nations Cultural Workshop with Chris Tobin;

• an opportunity to meet the ‘off-grid’ Chippendale Sustainable House guy Michael Mobbs as he installs a ‘Cool Seat’ at the Precinct;

• learning about fire safety and volunteering with the fabulous South Katoomba RFS;

• learning about volunteering to protect our wildlife with W.I.R.E.S Blue Mountains Branch;

• an opportunity to speak with local solar panel providers;

• a chance to spend some time with a local EV owner to discuss what it’s like to be an every day electric car driver in the Mountains;

• meeting Diego Bonetto and Marnee Fox at their Eat Weeds stall;

• tasting plant-based food and learning to make plant-based cheese at a tasting and ‘how-to-make-your-own cheese’ demonstration;

• an opportunity to taste fermented foods;

• viewings of our Water For Life exhibition and our wicking beds and ponds;

• learning about seed saving and buying local seeds and produce;

• a drip irrigation workshop;

• learning about reducing your waste and growing food;

• a Blackheath Community Farm stall selling seedlings;

• learning about fire resistant hempcrete;

• making or buying a Boomerang Bag from Boomerang Bags Blue Mountains;

• an opportunity to pick up free books and clothes;

and lots more!

Be part of the #swarm4planetaryhealth as we create a healthier and more fulfilling way of living together!

This event is part of a Bioregional Collaboration for Planetary Health and is supported by the Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (DRRF). The DRRF is jointly funded by the Australian and New South Wales governments.