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- Announcing the 2022 Mike Hill Fellows
- Apply for 1 of the 2 Merri-bek community environment scholarships
- Apply for a Community Grant for your sustainability project
- Apply for a grant from the Recycling Victoria Communities Fund
- Apply for a JEMENA Community Grant
- Apply for a Merri-bek Climate Change Grant by 30th September
- Apply for the free training in video storytelling
- Apply for the free training in video storytelling- EOI extended to Sunday 5th June
- Apply for the Merri-bek Women Environment Leadership Community Scholarship
- Apply for the Merri-bek Women Environment Leadership Community Scholarship 2023
- Apply today to join Merri-bek Council’s Advisory Committees
- Australian Councils call for stronger energy performance standards for new homes to cut cost of living and improve health and well-being
- Become a Merri-bek Nature Steward
- Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2020
- City Nature Challenge – over 2000 species
- Coburg Christmas Farmers Market
- Coburg Night Market
- Denise Cauchi awarded the Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) Merri-bek Community Scholarship
- Get involved in the Merri-bek Student Climate Summit
- Getting the most out of your wicking bed
- Glenroy Hub Open House
- Green recovery essential to reaching Paris targets: new UN report
- Have your say on the Climate Risk Strategy
- Infrastructure Victoria releases its 30-year vision for Victoria
- Looking for two Merri-bek Primary Schools to take part in Ride & Stride program
- Melbourne’s Climate Journey – feedback open
- Merri-bek contributes to the Victorian Parliamentary inquiry on tackling climate change
- Merri-bek Council and AEF launch the Mike Hill Fellowship
- Merri-bek Council helps shape Victoria for the better
- Merri-bek features in Better Futures Australia call for climate action
- Merri-bek grant to CERES bears fruit for urban gardeners
- Merri-bek part of a network of local governments calling for Federal Government climate action
- Moreland’s environmental scholarships empowering climate action
- New Merri-bek Zero Carbon Development Guidelines released
- North west communities for climate action online conference – 4-5 June
- Open Your Home for Sustainable House Day
- Ringing the bell on climate action
- Schools for Wildlife program
- Schools: Sign up by Friday April 30 to take climate action!
- Sign up for the climate training program for young people
- Sign up to Community Skills for Climate Action – A community training program
- State of the Climate 2020 Report
- Students talk climate with councillors as part of North West Communities Climate Summit
- Support a national response to climate change – Take action on the Climate Change Act
- Sustainability programs for Merri-bek Schools in 2022
- Sustainable school holiday playground fun
- Take part in Climate Justice In Colour program
- The Adaptation Game – A Merri-bek Climate Drill
- The Eye at Brunswick Baths
- Twenty-two projects and a growing network for climate action
- Watch the Our Sustainability Story video
- We need to talk about climate
Community Local Legends
- Brunswick Communities for Nature
- Brunswick Uniting Church
- CERES, Brunswick East
- Climate Action Moreland
- Coburg Farmers Market
- Denise of Doctors for the Environment Australia
- Ecological Justice Hub, Jesuit Social Services
- Elvira’s cargo bike
- Fawkner Food Bowls
- Fawkner Olympian takes climate action
- Friends of Merri Creek
- Growing Farmers
- Little Sprouts Program
- Merri-bek Bicycle User Group
- Merri-bek Primary School, Coburg
- Mulberry Community Garden Glenroy
- Neighbours United for Climate Action
- Neighbours United for Climate Action celebrates Community Climate Action Series
- On the tools at Brunswick Tool Library
- Ringing the bell on climate action
- STEM Catalyst
- Upfield Urban Forest
Energy
- $1000 rebates for rental properties in Merri-bek for heating upgrades
- $250 available to eligible households to assist with paying their energy bills
- 6 months to all-electric
- 8 easy tips to stay cool this summer and keep your energy bills down too!
- 9 easy tips to stay warm this winter and keep your energy bills down too!
- Air-conditioning (and heaters) Buyers Guide
- Apply for a Community Climate Change Energy Action grant
- Become the next Mike Hill Fellow
- EV curious? Test drive a car while you can!
- EV owners wanted for smart charger trial
- Funding for communities to reduce waste, reuse resources and improve energy efficiency
- Get your $250 Power Saving Bonus at Merri-bek Neighbourhood Houses
- Getting around Merri-bek by electric transport
- Glenroy Hub Open House
- Go electric for your health
- Green recovery essential to reaching Paris targets: new UN report
- Help save on your energy bills with the $250 Power Saving Bonus
- How to choose clean energy for your home
- How to get solar in apartments
- How to get the most out of your solar
- How to recycle your old solar
- Infrastructure Victoria releases its 30-year vision for Victoria
- Join the energy transition through a new solar battery pilot program
- Keeping cool this summer on a budget
- Lets Talk Solar – solar information session
- Merri-bek launches new Electrify Everything Messaging Guide
- Merri-bek makes a submission to Victorian Government Gas Substitution Roadmap
- Millsom family go solar in Coburg
- New household energy efficiency budget announcements
- Powering up to drive down emissions
- Save on electricity bills with solar
- Scoring an all-electric home in East Brunswick
- Selvatica in Coburg North goes solar
- Sign up to the Solar Power and Battery Webinar on 24th March
- Small steps: first home buyers’ journey to all-electric
- Smashing our solar targets
- South Australia aiming to go 500% renewable (no, that’s not a typo)
- Supporting residents to make their homes energy efficient
- Upgrade to Induction Cooking
- Visit Hutt Passivhaus in Coburg
- Watch the video of the Let’s Talk Solar event at Coburg Library
Energy Local Legends
Events
- ‘Sounding The Alarm’ for Climate action
- Active Travel Candidate Forum
- All things reusable
- Backyard Beekeepng for Beginners
- Bring Your Bills Day
- BRUNSWICK MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL
- Choose to Reuse
- Climamania – National Disability Insurance Scheme Advocacy & Creativity Workshop
- Climate Resilient Food Gardens
- Climate, Creativity & Growth
- Coburg Christmas Farmers Market
- Coburg Night Market
- Community Climate Action Series Launch Party
- Community Skills for Climate Action Get Together
- De-co-re-imagining: A co-created, arts-based, reimagining of community; what we are and what we can be.
- Do you live in the city of Merri-bek and want to learn or brush up on your clothing mendings skills?
- EFFA presents: Sovereign Cinema celebrating Indigenous perspectives on climate, ecology, culture and custodianship
- FoREST therapy
- Future Proof Your Home with Hot Water Heat Pumps
- Garden to Plate Zero Waste Cooking Class
- Getting the most out of your wicking bed
- Glenroy Hub Open House
- Grow Eat Together
- Healthy soils for productive gardens workshop
- Home Composting Education Workshop
- International Urban Agriculture Forum 2021
- Let’s talk solar – solar information session
- Merri-bek Local Food and Networking
- My Smart Garden Low Cost Vegetable Gardening workshop
- My Smart Garden Seed Saving and Propagation Workshop
- Nature Playgroups with CERES, Term 1 2023
- North West Communities for Climate Action conference
- North West Communities for Climate Action School Summit
- Off-grid Living In the Suburbs?
- Olives to Oil Festival
- Olives to Oil Harvest Festival
- Online Reusable Nappy Workshop
- Online Reusable Nappy Workshop
- Our Waste Conversations – Grassroots solutions for the Merri-bek community
- Pascoe Vale Food Swap
- Place based food security with waste resource strategies
- Recycle Right in Merri-bek
- Recycle Right in Moreland
- Regenerating Australia – Film screening
- Regenerating Australia Film Screening and Discussion
- Reusable Cloth Nappy Workshop- Online
- Reusable Nappy Workshop
- Reusable Nappy Workshop
- Reusable Nappy Workshop – 6 November 2021
- Reusable Nappy Workshop – 8 September 2021
- Seed saving and seed propagation
- Solar and Battery Information Session
- Soup, film and discussion night – screening ‘Wild Things’
- Soup, Film, & Discussion Night – Screening “Lady Lash”
- Spring Garden Festival
- The Eye at Brunswick Baths
- Unlocking business savings through upgrade finance
- Visit Hutt Passivhaus in Coburg
- Waterbug Discovery – Webinar
- Waterwatch Waterbug community sampling
- Weaving Workshop Series with Bronwyn Razem
- Welcome To Country and Community Climate Action Series Launch
- Welcome To Country, Community Weaving, & Open Garden, Celebration
- Westbreen Creek Litter Clean Up!
- Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) Information Session
- World Bee Day at Coburg Farmers’ Market
- Ye Olde BUG Ride – Merri-bek Bicycle User Group
- Zero Waste and Plastic Free Community Workshop
- Zero Waste Garden to Plate Cooking Workshop
Go all-electric
- 5 steps to all-electric households
- 6 months to all-electric
- Air-conditioning (and heaters) Buyers Guide
- An all-electric “Cheese House”
- Disposing of old gas appliances as you electrify your home
- Getting around Merri-bek by electric transport
- Go electric for your health
- Hot water buyers guide
- How to get solar in apartments
- How to get the most out of your solar
- How to move away from gas and why you should
- Merri-bek launches new Electrify Everything Messaging Guide
- Millsom family go solar in Coburg
- Petr’s family goes all-electric
- Scoring an all-electric home in East Brunswick
- Sign up to the Northern Melbourne Electric Vehicle Bulk Buy
- Small steps: first home buyers’ journey to all-electric
- Upgrade to Induction Cooking
- Use the appliance savings calculator
- Watch the video of the Let’s Talk Solar event at Coburg Library
Local Legends
- 6 months to all-electric
- An all-electric “Cheese House”
- Brunswick Communities for Nature
- Brunswick Uniting Church
- CERES Fair Wood
- CERES, Brunswick East
- Clean up Glenroy!
- Climate Action Moreland
- Coburg Farmers Market
- Conga Foods/Pakval/DC Coffee
- Denise of Doctors for the Environment Australia
- Dom’s sustainable home
- Ecological Justice Hub, Jesuit Social Services
- Elvira’s cargo bike
- Fawkner Food Bowls
- Fawkner Olympian takes climate action
- Friends of Merri Creek
- Growing Farmers
- Little Sprouts Program
- Make Brunswick Sparkle!
- Merri Health
- Merri-bek Bicycle User Group
- Merri-bek Primary School, Coburg
- Millsom family go solar in Coburg
- Mulberry Community Garden Glenroy
- Neighbours United for Climate Action
- Neighbours United for Climate Action celebrates Community Climate Action Series
- On the tools at Brunswick Tool Library
- Plumbing Industry Climate Action Centre (PICAC)
- Reducing packaging waste with Wholefood Unwrapped Collective
- Ringing the bell on climate action
- RMIT Brunswick
- Selvatica in Coburg North goes solar
- STEM Catalyst
- Terra Madre
- Upfield Urban Forest
News
- $1000 rebates for rental properties in Merri-bek for heating upgrades
- $250 available to eligible households to assist with paying their energy bills
- 36,000 less pieces of plastic
- 5 steps to all-electric households
- 6 months to all-electric
- 8 easy tips to stay cool this summer and keep your energy bills down too!
- 9 easy tips to stay warm this winter and keep your energy bills down too!
- A best-practice community hub for Glenroy
- A new 4-bin waste service is coming to Merri-bek in July 2023
- Air-conditioning (and heaters) Buyers Guide
- Announcing the 2022 Mike Hill Fellows
- Apply for 1 of 5 free passes to Sustainable House Day annual events
- Apply for 1 of the 2 Merri-bek community environment scholarships
- Apply for a Community Climate Change Energy Action grant
- Apply for a Community Grant for your sustainability project
- Apply for a grant from the Recycling Victoria Communities Fund
- Apply for a JEMENA Community Grant
- Apply for a Merri-bek Climate Change Grant by 30th September
- Apply for the free training in video storytelling
- Apply for the free training in video storytelling- EOI extended to Sunday 5th June
- Apply for the Merri-bek Women Environment Leadership Community Scholarship
- Apply for the Merri-bek Women Environment Leadership Community Scholarship 2023
- Apply to become a Ride & Stride school for 2022
- Apply today to join Merri-bek Council’s Advisory Committees
- Australian Councils call for stronger energy performance standards for new homes to cut cost of living and improve health and well-being
- Become a Merri-bek Nature Steward
- Become the next Mike Hill Fellow
- Brunswick East Primary School Open Streets Trial
- Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2020
- City Nature Challenge – over 2000 species
- Clean up Glenroy!
- Closure of the Australian Energy Foundation
- Coburg Christmas Farmers Market
- Coburg Night Market
- Colour me in!
- Counting our Litter
- Denise Cauchi awarded the Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) Merri-bek Community Scholarship
- Detox Your Home
- Disposing of old gas appliances as you electrify your home
- Draft Kerbside Waste Services and Charges Policy – Community Consultation
- EV curious? Test drive a car while you can!
- EV owners wanted for smart charger trial
- Families switching to fun, fuss-free school runs through Ride & Stride e-cargo bike trials
- Fawkner Olympian takes climate action
- Food delivery for the community
- Funding for communities to reduce waste, reuse resources and improve energy efficiency
- Get a discount on cloth nappies and reusable period products
- Get involved in the Merri-bek Student Climate Summit
- Get your $250 Power Saving Bonus at Merri-bek Neighbourhood Houses
- Getting around Merri-bek by electric transport
- Getting the most out of your wicking bed
- Glenroy Hub Open House
- Go electric for your health
- Green recovery essential to reaching Paris targets: new UN report
- Have your say on the Climate Risk Strategy
- Help save on your energy bills with the $250 Power Saving Bonus
- Help us create a 4-bin waste service that is right for our community
- How to choose clean energy for your home
- How to get solar in apartments
- How to get the most out of your solar
- How to move away from gas and why you should
- How to recycle your old solar
- Infrastructure Victoria releases its 30-year vision for Victoria
- Join a community panel on how to move towards low or zero emission vehicles
- Join the energy transition through a new solar battery pilot program
- Keeping cool this summer on a budget
- Launch of Brunswick East Primary School Active Paths Map
- Launch of Coburg North Primary School Active Paths Map
- Let’s Go for Zero
- Let’s save food scraps from landfill
- Lets Talk Solar – solar information session
- Looking for two Merri-bek Primary Schools to take part in Ride & Stride program
- Melbourne’s Climate Journey – feedback open
- Merri-bek advocacy helps lead to healthier and better performing homes
- Merri-bek businesses go solar
- Merri-bek City Council says no to fossil fuels
- Merri-bek City Council slashes its carbon emissions
- Merri-bek contributes to the Victorian Parliamentary inquiry on tackling climate change
- Merri-bek Council and AEF launch the Mike Hill Fellowship
- Merri-bek Council helps shape Victoria for the better
- Merri-bek endorses new aspirational zero carbon targets for 2030
- Merri-bek Environmental Sustainability Highlights 2020-21
- Merri-bek features in Better Futures Australia call for climate action
- Merri-bek grant to CERES bears fruit for urban gardeners
- Merri-bek joins call for energy-efficient and climate resilient homes
- Merri-bek joins letter to PM calling for credible climate action
- Merri-bek joins seventeen councils nationwide calling for ambitious Federal Government targets ahead of UN climate summit
- Merri-bek launches new Electrify Everything Messaging Guide
- Merri-bek makes a submission to Victorian Government Gas Substitution Roadmap
- Merri-bek Mayor Riley supports call to help protect communities from extreme weather
- Merri-bek part of a network of local governments calling for Federal Government climate action
- Merri-bek primary schools tag on to walking and cycling
- Merri-bek residents to see a phased approach to new 4-bin system
- Merri-bek responds to the proposed electric vehicle tax
- Merri-bek Sports Clubs showcased at COP26 in Glasgow
- Millsom family go solar in Coburg
- Moreland’s environmental scholarships empowering climate action
- Mulberry Community Garden Glenroy
- New household energy efficiency budget announcements
- New Merri-bek Zero Carbon Development Guidelines released
- New separated bike lanes trial coming to Moreland
- North west communities for climate action online conference – 4-5 June
- Open Streets trials held at our Ride & Stride schools
- Open Streets: Creating safer and healthier school runs
- Open Your Home for Sustainable House Day
- Parklets – popping up on a street near you!
- Powering up to drive down emissions
- Primary students get ready to ride & stride into high school
- Putting our food waste to good use
- Read about our Sustainability & Climate Highlights
- Recycle Right in Moreland
- Recycle Right in Moreland
- Reduce your waste this Christmas
- Reducing food waste and creating community
- Reducing packaging waste with Wholefood Unwrapped Collective
- Ride & Stride Free E-Cargo Bike Trial for Families!
- Ride & Stride pilot kicks of with Coburg North and Brunswick East primary schools
- Ride & Stride program launches with three new Merri-bek schools!
- Riding and Striding over Lockdown!
- Ringing the bell on climate action
- Save on electricity bills with solar
- Schools for Wildlife program
- Schools: Sign up by Friday April 30 to take climate action!
- Scoring an all-electric home in East Brunswick
- Sell your stuff at the Garage Sale Trail
- Selvatica in Coburg North goes solar
- Sign up for the climate training program for young people
- Sign up to Community Skills for Climate Action – A community training program
- Sign up to the Northern Melbourne Electric Vehicle Bulk Buy
- Sign up to the Solar Power and Battery Webinar on 24th March
- Small steps: first home buyers’ journey to all-electric
- Smashing our solar targets
- South Australia aiming to go 500% renewable (no, that’s not a typo)
- State of the Climate 2020 Report
- Stay climate conscious this festive season
- Students talk climate with councillors as part of North West Communities Climate Summit
- Support a national response to climate change – Take action on the Climate Change Act
- Supporting residents to make their homes energy efficient
- Sustainability programs for Merri-bek Schools in 2022
- Sustainable school holiday playground fun
- Take part in Climate Justice In Colour program
- Take Part in Plastic Free July
- Take part in the Eat It, Don’t Bin It Challenge this September
- Temperatures increasing over time in Moreland
- The ‘Right To Repair’ – have you say!
- The Adaptation Game – A Merri-bek Climate Drill
- The closure of REDcycle and tips to reduce plastic waste
- The Eye at Brunswick Baths
- Top tips to using your Food and Garden Organics bin during hot weather
- Twenty-two projects and a growing network for climate action
- Upgrade to Induction Cooking
- Using your FOGO bin for unavoidable food waste supports the circular economy
- Visit Hutt Passivhaus in Coburg
- Vote for Brunswick East Primary School Open Streets in Cities Power Partnership Awards
- Watch the Our Sustainability Story video
- Watch the video of the Let’s Talk Solar event at Coburg Library
- We need to talk about climate
- We’re 10 years carbon neutral
- Ye Olde BUG Ride – Merri-bek Bicycle User Group
- Your food and garden waste becomes food for Moreland’s Community Gardens
Travel
- Apply to become a Ride & Stride school for 2022
- Brunswick East Primary School Open Streets Trial
- EV curious? Test drive a car while you can!
- EV owners wanted for smart charger trial
- Families switching to fun, fuss-free school runs through Ride & Stride e-cargo bike trials
- Getting around Merri-bek by electric transport
- Green recovery essential to reaching Paris targets: new UN report
- Infrastructure Victoria releases its 30-year vision for Victoria
- Join a community panel on how to move towards low or zero emission vehicles
- Launch of Coburg North Primary School Active Paths Map
- Looking for two Merri-bek Primary Schools to take part in Ride & Stride program
- Merri-bek primary schools tag on to walking and cycling
- Merri-bek responds to the proposed electric vehicle tax
- New separated bike lanes trial coming to Moreland
- Open Streets trials held at our Ride & Stride schools
- Open Streets: Creating safer and healthier school runs
- Parklets – popping up on a street near you!
- Primary students get ready to ride & stride into high school
- Ride & Stride Free E-Cargo Bike Trial for Families!
- Ride & Stride pilot kicks of with Coburg North and Brunswick East primary schools
- Ride & Stride program launches with three new Merri-bek schools!
- Riding and Striding over Lockdown!
- Sign up to the Northern Melbourne Electric Vehicle Bulk Buy
- Vote for Brunswick East Primary School Open Streets in Cities Power Partnership Awards
- Ye Olde BUG Ride – Merri-bek Bicycle User Group
Travel Local Legends
Uncategorised
Waste
- 36,000 less pieces of plastic
- A new 4-bin waste service is coming to Merri-bek in July 2023
- Apply for a grant from the Recycling Victoria Communities Fund
- Colour me in!
- Counting our Litter
- Detox Your Home
- Draft Kerbside Waste Services and Charges Policy – Community Consultation
- Food delivery for the community
- Funding for communities to reduce waste, reuse resources and improve energy efficiency
- Get a discount on cloth nappies and reusable period products
- Green recovery essential to reaching Paris targets: new UN report
- Help us create a 4-bin waste service that is right for our community
- How to recycle your old solar
- Infrastructure Victoria releases its 30-year vision for Victoria
- Let’s save food scraps from landfill
- Merri-bek residents to see a phased approach to new 4-bin system
- Merri-bek Sports Clubs showcased at COP26 in Glasgow
- Putting our food waste to good use
- Recycle Right in Moreland
- Recycle Right in Moreland
- Reducing food waste and creating community
- Sell your stuff at the Garage Sale Trail
- Stay climate conscious this festive season
- Take Part in Plastic Free July
- Take part in the Eat It, Don’t Bin It Challenge this September
- The ‘Right To Repair’ – have you say!
- The closure of REDcycle and tips to reduce plastic waste
- Top tips to using your Food and Garden Organics bin during hot weather
- Using your FOGO bin for unavoidable food waste supports the circular economy
- Your food and garden waste becomes food for Moreland’s Community Gardens
Waste Local Legends
- CERES, Brunswick East
- Clean up Glenroy!
- Coburg Farmers Market
- Dom’s sustainable home
- Ecological Justice Hub, Jesuit Social Services
- Fawkner Food Bowls
- Little Sprouts Program
- Make Brunswick Sparkle!
- Merri Health
- Merri-bek Primary School, Coburg
- On the tools at Brunswick Tool Library
- Reducing packaging waste with Wholefood Unwrapped Collective
