Bring along your plastic dilemma and we'll help you solve it.

Plastic Free July... Where to start?

A quick, after work session to prepare you for Plastic Free July.

Going plastic free for a month... should be easy enough right? I don’t use that much plastic. I can bring my own containers shopping, and I already use my own bags. Then, we start having a little think about it... and the harsh reality sinks in.

Plastic is freakin EVERYWHERE!!

Going completely plastic free for a month is quite the task - every corner we turn, there it is. So it might help to think of this month as a bigger learning experience. Focus on eliminating the bigger impact stuff will help ward off feeling completely overwhelmed, and in time, the smaller things might also be addressed.

This conversation will focus on the easy ways to make a difference in your everyday lives. Bring along yoru plastic dilemma and we'll help you solve it. Environmental pollution can be tackled in the shopping aisle. With tips and tricks on how to live a life less plastic - we’ll cover shopping, food, cleaning and body care choices.

We'll be participating in Plastic Free July. Even if you can't make it to this session, register for the PFJ challenge by visiting www.plasticfreejuly.org/register #choosetorefuse

The Adelaide Sustainability Centre is supported by the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board and Conservation Council of South Australia.

Join Charmaine from The Reskill Project for a Beeswax Wrap Workshop. Participants will make one medium and one small beeswax wrap and learn where to source materials, how to care for and use the wrap; and how to dispose.

All materials + waste free living hints and tips included.

Learn how to sew your own netting produce bag with Françoise Piron

Experiment with using other fabrics such as fabric salvaged from broken umbrellas to make bags or other re-usable items. Françoise will also show people how to make other items such as dust clothes from cotton fabrics and knitted dishcloths, scrubbing cloths and making up removing pads.

About Françoise:
Françoise aims to increase awareness of environmental sustainable living. She facilitates the West Croydon Fruit and Veggie Swap and Boomerang Bags Adelaide group which meets here at the Adelaide Sustainability Centre on the third Saturday of each month. You can find her on Facebook at The French Brace where she supports sustainable actions in theatre and events.

Do carbon emissions confuse you? Can you reduce your carbon footprint to the global average or the global allowance, and what is the difference?

Adelaide filmmaker Nick Graalman and his partner Jamie Carter decided to find out and set out on a yearlong endeavour to understand a range of issues and how (or even if) they could drastically reduce their own footprint.

Treading Lightly documents their personal journey with the help and guidance of local academics and activists including a food biologist, ecologist, building designers, demographer, environmentalist and geographer.

Every decision in their day to day lives is examined, logged and researched. They explore the big 3: home, food and transport. Everything from living with no heating or cooling to electric bikes, food waste composting and retrofitting the home. They tackle trying to carbon offset though a revegetation project, and for American born Jamie, does she visit her family in America? And what to do with the hardly used swimming pool that came with the house. After much research and thinking, a novel solution was found.

Treading Lightly is an honest account of their endeavours and the outcomes. Filmed at home and various locations around Adelaide, Treading Lightly documents the year to October 2018. A year in an hour. It presents practical ways to both understand and take control. It has been a life changing year for Nick and Jamie and they warmly invite you to take a peek into their lives.

Filmmaker Nick Graalman will join us for the screening and host a Q&A after the screening.

We'll start the evening starts with a shared potluck dinner and conversation.

6 pm - Potluck community dinner, please bring a plate of food to share*

6.45 pm - Film Screening

After the film - Discussion and Q&A with filmmaker Nick Graalman

The Adelaide Sustainability Centre is supported by the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board and Conservation SA.

* Choose to refuse single-use plastic. During our dinners we provide real plates and cutlery, provide reusable cups, supply filtered water and collect food scraps to give to The Joinery's chickens or put in our compost bins. Please avoid bringing single-use plastics, including glad wrap, to our dinners if you can. We look forward to seeing you!