Don’t miss Sustainable Living Home Expo tomorrow at Kingscliff TAFE
14 September 2018
What does sustainability mean to you? Do you want to make changes around your home, to live more efficiently and save money along the way? Council’s annual Sustainable Living Home Expo is the one-stop shop for all the information you need.
The event is on again tomorrow (Saturday 15 September) at Kingscliff TAFE and Council invites all residents to come along to feast on the smorgasbord of sustainability knowledge at the event, including advice from more than 30 experts.
Kicking off at 9am and running through until 3pm, the program is packed with free workshops, presentations and advice on how to make your home more sustainable and save money. There will also be food and entertainment.
Highlights of the program include:
Workshops: Plastic free living – making reusable bees wax wraps and calico bags (9.30-10am and 12-12.30pm); Keeping happy chickens (10-10.30am); Waterbugs and healthy waterways (10.30-11am); Small backyard organic gardening (11.30am-12pm), Healthy waterways and frogs, and Living off the grid (1-1.30pm).
Presentations: Coastal Dolphins in Tweed Estuaries (9.30am); Tweed Byron Native Species Guide (10am); Solar gardens for renters (10.30am); Energy Smart Action (11am), Tiny homes on wheels (11.30am); Building better homes (12pm); Building standard for a carbon positive future (12.30pm), Circular Economy Innovation Hubs (1pm) and Carbon neutral living (1.30pm).
Fans of Channel 7 TV show House Rules should pop along to meet the first mother/daughter contestants, the Tweed’s Kim and Michelle. They’ll be at the Expo from 2pm to judge the children’s Sustainable Shoebox House Design competition.
Children across the Tweed are encouraged to make a model house showcasing their vision for sustainable living and to bring their models along to the Sustainability Expo to be judged by Kim and Michelle for the chance to win some great prizes. Materials used in the model should be waste items found around the home.
You can make your model house at the expo - it’s not too late to enter. Make your sustainable house model at the expo, where art teacher Carleen Joy will be on hand from 9am with loads of materials suitable for making model houses – just bring your imagination and innovative ideas for sustainable living along.
A host of local businesses are generously supporting this year’s Sustainable Home Living Expo with a swag of prizes for lucky members of the public. For a chance to win some of these awesome sustainable prizes, complete an entry form at the Expo.
Up for grabs: A 1.5kW solar system from SAE Group Tweed Heads; a family weekend away at Osprey Cabin Pottsville South Holiday Park; $500 off solar installation from JK Electrical and Solar; $200 building products gift voucher from Monowall; one-day Garden to Food course, Ella’s Farm; Reln Worm Factory, Tweed Shire Council; Home energy efficiency audit, Enova Community; $50 dog grooming voucher, Woofer Wares; 250L compost bin, Tweed Shire Council; Energy meter, NSW Office of Environment & Heritage; and family pack of organic re-usable beeswax wraps from Love The Earth.
The national Sustainable House Open Day will be held the following day, on Sunday 16 September. Elwood Farm at Limpinwood is the Tweed’s first sustainable house to take part in the national initiative. See www.sustainablehousedaynr.org for details.
For more information on the Sustainable Living Home Expo, visit www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/homeexpo
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Caption: Fans of Channel 7 TV show House Rules should pop along to meet the first mother/daughter contestants, the Tweed’s Kim and Michelle. They’ll be at the Expo from 2pm to judge the children’s Sustainable Shoebox House Design competition.