The Ecoliving Fair is a Randwick City Council 'Sustaining our City event'. The day's programs include interactive workshops, range of exhibitors, creative corner, kid's space, music, great foods and ecofriendly products on sale.

Come and find out how you can be involved. Take a sticky beak at the innovative sustainability activities our schools are involved in with the Ecoliving School Challenge. Celebrate with the winners of the popular annual Garden Awards Presentation for best residential, native, school garden, community and environmentally friendly gardens.  With more than 60 exhibitors, creative corner, kid's space, workshops and Conversations Cafe, our journey to sustainability is going to be an interesting one. And it's free!

Please visit My Ecofriend stall

Biodiversity Month is held in September each year and aims to promote the importance of protecting, conserving and improving biodiversity both within Australia and across the world. Biodiversity encompasses every living thing that exists on our planet and the environment in which they live. Australia is home to between 600,000 and 700,000 species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world.

National Landcare Week - September 6 - 12

Landcare Australia is giving every Australian the opportunity to help scientists across the globe study the impact of climate change on our ecosystems by monitoring, collecting and recording data from their own backyards.

People can register to become citizen scientists as part of this free activity which takes place during Landcare Week, which runs from 6th to 13th September. Participants will observe and record what is happening in their own environment such as when frogs are calling, what birds are migrating and what plants are flowering.  The data gathered will then help scientists understand what seasonal variations are occurring around Australia with our animals and plants.

Simply register now to become a Climate Watcher.

Sustainable House Day gives people the chance to get a real-life look inside houses that have been designed, built or fitted out with sustainability in mind and talk to owners, receiving unbiased advice. Homes will open for free, providing a fantastic opportunity for people seeking to make their own homes or rental properties greener.

Sustainable House Day, provides a chance for people to exchange ideas and learn from each other and visits to the houses are free of charge – so it will cost nothing to see how easy and economical the move to greener living can be.

Architects and builders will be on hand at many of the homes to provide expert tips while home viewers at this year’s event will be able to see benefits such as solar, ventilation, water harvesting and recycling, shading, thermal mass, glazing and window treatments.

The aim of Sustainable House Day 2010 is to provide an enjoyable, informative day that contributes to local community awareness of sustainable living.

Protect the Ozone Layer, It Protects the Climate, It Protects You!

On 19 December 1994, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date, in 1987, on which the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was signed.

States are invited to devote the Day each year to promote, at the national level, activities in accordance with the objectives of the Montreal Protocol and its amendments .

The treaty is designed to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of the depletion of the ozone layer. Furthermore, the effect of the ozone layer protection has also resulted in the climate benefits, far more than those targeted under the Kyoto Protocol.

Youth for Peace and Development

This year, the International Day of Peace falls within the same time period as a major summit on the Millennium Development Goals, the world’s largest anti-poverty campaign. The Summit brings world leaders together at the United Nations in New York from 20 - 22 September.

Youth, peace and development are closely interlinked: Peace enables development, which is critical in providing opportunities for young people, particularly those in countries emerging from conflict. Healthy, educated youth are in turn crucial to sustainable development and peace. Peace, stability and security are essential to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease, and maternal and child death by 2015.

Each year, the Secretary-General, his Messengers of Peace, the entire UN system and many individuals, groups and organizations around the world use the Day of Peace to engage in activities that contribute to ceasefires, end conflict, bridge cultural divides and create tolerance