World Environment Day is an international celebration commemorated every year on June 5 to recognise the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment at Stockholm in 1972.
Saturday 5 June: Morningside festival 3pm – 7pm
Really Really Free market 10am – 4pm
Logan Eco Action Festival LEAF 10am – 5pm
Boonah festival 9am – 3pm
Plastic Fantastic !?! 6pm – 8pm
Sunday 6 June Sunshine Coast Environment Festival 9am – 4pm
Tea and Seed Stories 10.30am and 2pm
Transition Kenmore Permablitz 8am – 11am
Saturday 13 June Gold Coast 'Green Day Out'
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Time: Saturday 5 June from 3pm to 7pm
Location: Morningside Tennis Centre and Beelarong Community Farm
- next door to each other on the corner of Beverley and York Sts, Morningside
Please join Transition East, Beelarong Community Farm and the Morningside Tennis Centre for an afternoon of fun, food and information.
Activities include:
o Free organic sausage sizzle (including meat option) o Free tennis for the kids
o Farm tours o Cob oven cooking
o Indian cooking display o Making your own worm ranch
o Construction of an Oil Memorial o Screening of the movie ‘In Transition 1.0’
o Low Carbon Diet program presentation
For catering purposes, please RSVP on the Brisbane Transition ning.
Public transport options: 15 minute walk (or 5 minute ride) from either Morningside or Cannon Hill railway station.
BYO chair would also be fantastic.
We're also looking for a couple of large plastic drums to construct an Oil Memorial with - any leads please let me know.
We'll also be wanting some unwanted oil-based memorabilia to screw to the drums - let your imagination run wild
See more details and RSVP on Brisbane Transition Hub:
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2. The Really Really Free Market
Saturday 5 June, 10am – 4pm – in Brisbane City Botanic Gardens
A festival of giving freely – anything from a shoulder massage to fruit & veges to haiku compositions
Everything in this market is completely free. No money, bartering, or trading.
A celebration of gift economy.
Everyone is welcome
Come along and bring items you want to give away, skills to share, ideas, friends, or just your company.
Venue: Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, in the palm circle opposite the big pond near the Alice Street entrance.
To see more details and RSVP, see the facebook event page
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3. Logan Eco Action Festival LEAF
Saturday 5 June 2010 10 am to 5 pm
Griffith University Logan Campus, University Dr, Meadowbrook
Logan Eco Action Festival (LEAF) is a free community festival welcoming every one of all ages to attend, and more importantly participate. This interactive and educational event is designed to stimulate awareness about the topical environmental issues we face as a community, and through education empower you, your family and your friends to make a positive change.
With an array of exhibitors, live music, wildlife shows, demonstrations and hands-on workshops, organic food markets, children's activities, giveaways and much more, this free community festival welcomes everyone of all ages to attend and most importantly, participate!
For more info see the website
Kid's activities
• Rock climbing wall Little Green Thumbs Tomato Planting
• Face Painting Art Workshops
Entertainment
• Live music from Ebony Rose, The Spacifix, The Twine, Loren, Kitch and more
• Fire spinners Awards Ceremony for World Environment Day Calendar awards and Envirogrants
Guest speakers
• Annette Macfarlane Hollowlog Homes City Food Growers
• Griffith Uni and UQ Al Gore Presentation Ecofund Wildcare Solar
Workshops
• The Bug Lady Recycling and Composting Bird watching
Other activities
• Geckoes Wildlife Shows Electric Cars Daisy Hill Koala Sanctuary Organic food stalls
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4. Boonah festival for World Environment Day
Saturday 5 June 9:00 am - 3:00 pm At the Outlook, Boonah Ipswich Road, Boonah
Celebrating all things for a sustainable lifestyle, World Environment Day features vendor stalls and talks, workshops and demonstrations, entertainment, food and fun. Wildlife workshops for the kids, interactive junk orchestra and sculpture, aromotherapy, massage, bamboo, soapnuts, damper, local wines and regional food, drumming workshops. belly dancing, staged music, and a recycled fashion parade.
For more information contact: Julie, Boonah Organisation for Sustainable Future 5463 4774 boonahboss@hotmail.com
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5. Reverse Garbage: Plastic Fantastic !?!
Saturday 5 June 6.00pm to 8.00pm Reverse Garbage, 296 Montague Rd, West End
This World Environment Day, 5th June, Reverse Garbage encourages you to have a little reverence for that versatile stuff we call plastic. They will be celebrating the opening of their next exhibition 'Plastic Fantastic!?!' with live music, short films, good food and drinks and a range of fabulous artworks made from salvaged plastics by local artists.
Email: info@reversegarbage.com.au to RSVP
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6. Sunshine Coast World Environment Day festival
Sunday 6 June 2010, 9am–4pm
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs
The Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival (30th Anniversary) is a free community festival celebrating community and biodiversity in the region.
The festival features film screenings, speakers, forums, delicious foods, Farmer's Market, and the Transition Town... FULL Festival details
OxfamUQ will screen the 'REEL CHANGE' short films on climate change, supported by MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY and the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival.
'Reel Change' is a series of striking, and often inspiring, short films on responses to climate change from communities around the world – Niger, Borneo, Australia, Japan, Solomon Islands, Altai
See previews and information about the Reel Change short films by visiting this link _____________________________________________________________
7. Tea and Seed Stories - Sophie Munn’s homage to the seed
Sunday 6 June 10.30am – 2.00pm Japanese Garden: Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens
This event welcomes all who care for the critical role of the seed in the story of biodiversity - its is a day for sharing stories - seeds if you can - and for recognising what is at stake. You dont have to be a great gardener or own a patch of land to participate in this circle. There are many ways to contribute to biodiversity preservation.
We are taking bookings for this free event - 2 sessions -10.30am and 12.30 pm.
More information at 2010 Artist-in-residence Sophie Munn’s blog: sophiemunns2010.blogspot.com
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8. Transition Town Kenmore Permablitz
Sunday 6 June 8.00am to 11.00am Anstead
Transition Town Kenmore runs regulars Permablitzes where people get together to transform disused lawns in productive fruit and vege gardens. For more information on Permablitzes see the Transition Kenmore Blog
To get the address and come along email: transitionkenmore@gmail.com
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9. Green Day Out - Gold Coast
Sunday 13 June, 10am – 5pm
Kurrawa Park, Old Burleigh Road, Broadbeach
Organised by Gecko (Gold Coast Hinterland Environment Council), the event includes two stages of music, children’s garden activities, and eco fashion competition, workshops and more. Website: http://greendayout.gecko.org.au/