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Merri Menders – helping locals reduce textile waste while mending clothes

The Merri Menders is a small group of locals who are supporting the change towards…

Donna LuckmanJuly 21, 2026

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Pascoe Vale Repair Cafe goes from strength to strength

In 2022, the Pascoe Vale Repair Café at Sussex Neighbourhood House was trialled four times…

Donna LuckmanJune 27, 2024

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All-electric e-cargo deliveries at the Brunswick Tool Library

The Brunswick Tool Library has bought an electric cargo bike for tool deliveries thanks to…

Donna LuckmanJune 15, 2023

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Pre-loved homewares for those in need

Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network (RIMERN) is a multi Rotary club project that supports…

Donna LuckmanMarch 27, 2023

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Clean up Glenroy!

Flower Jogiya-Mitchell started Clean Up Glenroy over Covid lockdown. During daily walks with her husband,…

Donna LuckmanSeptember 20, 2022

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Reducing packaging waste with Wholefood Unwrapped Collective

In late 2019, a Coburg North resident decided to do something about food packaging. Gabrielle…

Donna LuckmanMarch 27, 2022

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Fawkner Food Bowls

Fawkner Food Bowls is a local volunteer group enhancing food security and community resilience in…

Donna LuckmanJune 21, 2021

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Make Brunswick Sparkle!

Early 2019, Brunswick local Sharon Rayner put a call out on her neighbourhood Facebook page…

Donna LuckmanJune 21, 2021

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On the tools at Brunswick Tool Library

Next time you need a garden mulcher, spirit level or a hand plane, consider the…

Donna LuckmanJune 8, 2021

Photo of a man on a back deck of a sustainable house with raised vegetable boxes

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Dom’s sustainable home

Dom Mendonca has lived in Brunswick for 15 years and he has developed his suburban…

Donna LuckmanJanuary 18, 2021

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Merri-bek Primary School, Coburg

Merri-bek Primary School in Coburg is a multicultural public school that is embracing sustainability action…

Donna LuckmanJanuary 14, 2021

An area of CERES with part of the Terra Wonder playspace shown amongst gum and casurina trees

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CERES, Brunswick East

CERES is an environmental education centre, urban farm and social enterprise hub spread across four…

Donna LuckmanJanuary 14, 2021

Crowd of people gathering around market stalls under a large tree

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Coburg Farmers Market

Coburg Farmers Market provides the community with Victorian produce direct from the farmers themselves. Every…

Donna LuckmanDecember 22, 2020

Four preschool aged children with shovels digging holes for native trees with help from an adult instructor

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Little Sprouts Program

The Little Sprouts program provides specialised support for early childhood services in Merri-bek, and in…

Donna LuckmanNovember 17, 2020

A permaculture garden with a pink sunset background

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Ecological Justice Hub, Jesuit Social Services

The Ecological Justice Hub is a permaculture garden dedicated to both social and environmental justice,…

Donna LuckmanNovember 17, 2020

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Merri Health

Merri Health is a not for profit community health care organisation with health sites across…

Donna LuckmanNovember 17, 2020

Merri Menders – helping locals reduce textile waste while mending clothes

Pascoe Vale Repair Cafe goes from strength to strength

All-electric e-cargo deliveries at the Brunswick Tool Library

Pre-loved homewares for those in need

Clean up Glenroy!

Reducing packaging waste with Wholefood Unwrapped Collective

Fawkner Food Bowls

Make Brunswick Sparkle!

On the tools at Brunswick Tool Library

Dom’s sustainable home

Merri-bek Primary School, Coburg

CERES, Brunswick East

Coburg Farmers Market

Little Sprouts Program

Ecological Justice Hub, Jesuit Social Services

Merri Health

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