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Sat 03 Jun 2017 - Sun 04 Jun 2017

From 9am to 5pm on Saturday, 3rd June 2017 and Sunday, 4th June 2017, the Adelaide Showground's Goyder and Jubilee pavilions will host the inaugural .

Experience Australia's largest indoor Natureplay area, a noctarium, the Nylon Zoo, Animals Anonymous, a reptile display, Bugs & Slugs and mobile planetariums.

Exhibitors will offer a wealth of environmental related information on electric vehicles, eco-tourism, lifestyle; home and garden, health and beauty, food and wine, conservation, community and the Sustainable Home Zone.


The Green Theatre seats 500 and will feature some dynamic keynote speakers, including our revered Deane Hutton (The Curiosity Show) and Sophie Thomson (Gardening Australia).

In addition to the Green Theatre, there'll be the Sustainability Stage (don't miss Peter Vollert's Green Pooh! - daily from 1.10pm-1.30pm). Make a date to meet Adelaide's resident frogman, Steve Walker at the Environmental Platform where he'll entertain the masses with Kinky Frog Behaviour. Tiny Houses will feature Adelaide's John Baxter who built one of Australia's first council-approved tiny houses (10am-10.20am daily on the Sustainability Stage).

A must-do is an environmental tour of the Adelaide Showground - featuring the eco-friendly Goyder Pavilion rooftop which has one of the largest solar panel installations in Australia. Plan ahead and bring your old/unwanted mobile phones and/or printer cartridges to the Recycle Hub.

Discounted tickets are available online at $15/adult; $10/concession or at the door $20/adult; $15/concession. The great news is 18yo and under are free!

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