Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit

03/11/2024

After just over four years since its first release, the lgcet.com website has been retired. The Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit will remain free and available to download from sustainabilityhelp.com. This will sit alongside the newly developed Business Sustainability Toolkit and Sustainability Help consulting services.

13/09/2024

Exciting news! The Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit is evolving into something even bigger. Introducing The Sustainability Help Business Toolkit and Sustainability Help! Visit sustainabilityhelp.com or the link below for more information.

Exciting news! The Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit is evolving into something even bigger. Introducing The Sustainability Help Business Toolkit and…

15/04/2024

We are surveying employees on attitudes towards sustainability in the workplace. The anonymous results will help build on the concepts developed in the Local Government Climate Emergency Toolkit. Please reach out if you have any questions. Survey link here: https://forms.gle/heNMB8ZF3EJGzTxp6

21/07/2023

Our community has spoken, and we've heard your call for climate action. 🌏📣

We're thrilled to announce that last night Council resolved to ban fossil fuel advertising on all venues and facilities owned by the City of Yarra, such as our community rooms and sports grounds.

In line with our community’s values, we're treating fossil fuel advertising just like alcohol, to***co, and gambling ads – they have no place on Council property.

The ban will be phased in sensibly as commercial agreements expire.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/3DoVSTa

18/07/2023

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️Stallholders: comment here if you will serve our visitors with their own reusable drink cups.

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SUNDAY, 6 AUGUST, 9AM-2PM.

17/07/2023

17/07/2023

13/07/2023

What’s in the Kit? 💭

- Energy Smart Thermometer 🌡
- Infra-red thermometer ❄
- Energy Monitor 🔌
- Light meter 💡
- Water flow measure cup 💧

Where can I get them from?

Council’s FREE Home Environment Kits are available for hire from all Moonee Valley Libraries
To make a reservation, please visit the library catalogue here https://ow.ly/YUVP50P98XB or ring the library directly

Please note, you need to be a library member to book out a Home Environment Kit

11/07/2023

🏢👨‍👩‍👦‍👦📚 Plans are forging ahead for the Baw Baw Culture and Connection Precinct Stage One, Library and Learning Centre. Detailed designs are now complete, and the project will soon be ready for tender.

🌳 Council is targeting Green Star 5 Certification for the project, which will be at least 30% more energy efficient than similar buildings, running on 100% renewable energy and taking advantage of natural lighting, shade, and ventilation.

👷‍♀️ The project will prioritise local, renewable, low-maintenance and fire-resistant materials. Architects, Croxon Ramsay, have identified timber as the most environmentally sustainable building material for the project. Mass-laminated timber products will be used for the beams, columns, floors and frame of the building as an alternative to finite, resource-intensive steel and concrete.

📝 You can join the Baw Baw Culture and Connection Precinct community advocacy campaign by visiting the link below. The site provides quick and easy access to a letter of support that will be emailed directly to all local MPs and relevant ministers.

👉www.advancingbawbaw.com/culture 👈

01/07/2023

As we face the urgent challenge of the climate emergency, transparency and accountability have emerged as essential principles in driving effective action.

As we face the urgent challenge of the climate emergency, transparency and accountability have emerged as essential principles in driving effective action. To address this global crisis, we must ensure that governments, organizations, and individuals are transparent in their actions and accountable

24/06/2023

Green, open space and connection to our natural environment not only helps protect biodiversity but is vital for our physical and mental health.

Green, open space and connection to our natural environment not only helps protect biodiversity but is vital for our physical and mental health. Local governments can ensure we not only have access to open space and local produce but have a greater awareness and understanding of the entire system in

24/06/2023

Today's is the Grass-Trigger-plant. Enhance the beauty of your space with the addition of this exquisite grassy plant 🌼🌿

Common name: Grass-Trigger-plant

Latin name: Stylidium graminifolium

Description: This beautiful grassy plant looks lovely in pots or rockeries and has pale pink flowers from September to December.

Best suited to: It will grow in local, moist and well drained soils in full sun or partial shade. Once established, it will tolerate both wet and dry conditions.

Care tip: While it can be difficult to establish and may not be long lived, it’s fascinating pollination mechanism is very intriguing to watch - when an insect lands on the flower and touches a ‘trigger’ on the flower base, part of the flower will spring forward depositing pollen onto the insect’s back. As the insects visit various flowers, this pollen is transferred to other plants and pollination is complete.

Glass-Trigger-plant available at the Bayside Community Nursery 🌻

Bayside Community Nursery is located at 315-317 Reserve Road, Cheltenham and is open Thursdays and Saturdays between 10am and 12pm.

Photo credit: Pauline Reynolds 📷

[Image description: Small delicate pink flowers on a green stalk. The text reads Bayside Natives, Common name: Grass-Trigger-plant, Latin name: Stylidium graminifolium.]