National Sustainability Festival

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Posted 2024-01-26 by Jen ⇒ follow

Thu 01 Feb 2024 - Thu 29 Feb 2024

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Live like the world depends on it, sounds like the perfect slogan for a movement that showcases ideas and action for sustainability. It's never been more important than now to accelerate and embrace sustainable living. Turning 25 this year, this Festival is not just an event, but a movement of change-makers who address the global climate and biodiversity emergencies. It's also the largest and longest-running sustainability event in Australia. You can check out this year's Festival Program Here . The Festival runs for the full month of February 2024.

The huge sustainability and zero waste celebration is back with its feature event, The Great Local Picnic on Sunday 25 Feb from 12pm to 4.30pm at Royal Botanic Gardens, Oak Lawn. This is a free event, but you need to make your bookings here to get your free ticket to be part of an inspirational and entertaining day. ABC's Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis will be in attendance to celebrate sustainable living. Costa is a landscape architect, environmental educator and television presenter who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people. Join in the Picnic Parade for a pre-picnic nature walkabout with Costa. This picnic event features a huge lineup of special guests and leading sustainability innovators for a big green day out. Bring your rug and basket with delicious dishes made from homegrown harvests, or pack a locally sourced spread and join the showcase of local food, innovative sustainability and community connection.

Another feature event, Our Duty to Care on **Sat 3 Feb from 8pm to 10pm* is a ticked event at $30 Full/$20 Concession. This curation comes with powerful messages but also aims to provide an emotive comfortability and vulnerability when reflecting on climate change, inaction and action. It features music from Melbourne composers Robert McIntyre, Laura Abraham, Sam Williams, Caerwen Martin and Stuart Greenbaum juxtaposed with the Icelandic music of Olafur Arnalds.

Yet another feature event, book here ($25 Full/$15 Concession) for a Tour of the Plummery on Tue 6 Feb from 5.30pm to 7pm . This is one of the city's most productive food gardens, even though The Plummery is a tiny 1/14th acre block. In 2020 it produced 450kg of herbs, veggies, fruit and eggs, with about 4 hours management each week. Come witness how a small urban space grows thousands of dollars worth of produce each year while lowering energy bills, sheltering the home from extreme heat, building food security, community connections and climate resilience.

The lineup of speakers, advocates, artists and performers this year is nothing short of incredible as always. Take some time to get to know the speakers by clicking on their images . Whether you attend an awe-inspiring exhibition that asks you to see the natural world from a new perspective or explore a city where wild animals and humans live together as citizens, there's plenty to explore within the festival. Peruse the program and get the best out of the Fest.