| Now is the season of Makuru (Jun & Jul), the First Rains. Fertility Season. Time to travel to inland hunting areas, and seek shelter from the fierce storms coming up off the southern ocean. |
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Platinum Waterwise Council of the Year The City of Cockburn was recently awarded the Platinum Waterwise Council of the Year! This prestigious award gives recognition for how Cockburn views and works toward maintaining water as a highly valued resource.
Water runs at the heart of our City with important water bodies such as the Beeliar Wetlands chain, beautiful Port Coogee and the popular Cockburn ARC. We foster water champions within our staff to ensure waterwise initiatives achieve above and beyond water efficiency.
Some of the major achievements within the City that contributed to our Platinum Waterwise Councils of the Year win include: - Cleaning up Port Coogee with permanent hydrocarbon booms, installation of sea bins;
- Diverting stormwater to public open space to reduce nutrients reaching the marina and achieving International Clean Marina accreditation.
- Implementation of Water Sensitive Urban Design along the Cockburn shoreline,
- Hydro-zoning numerous parks.
- Upgraded Lakelands Hockey Club to include a waterwise demonstration garden, and improved waterwise features in its clubrooms.
- And then there’s the City’s Sustainability Policy, which includes the requirement for all civic infrastructure to allocate 3% of the project budget to Environmentally Sustainable Design.
Learn more about the Water Corporations Waterwise Programs, or read the Minister for Water media release. |
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Instant Garden Bed and Wicking Bed Workshop with Peg Davies
Saturday 26 June In this workshop, learn how to use what you’ve got to make an instant garden and wicking bed. Peg Davies, a garden guru and waste educator with over 12 years’ experience, will guide you through the simple steps of setting up your very own garden bed so you can successfully grow your own produce.
There will be live demonstrations and a lucky winner will receive a takeaway garden bed! |
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Sustainable Home Tour
Sunday 27 June Join Chris Ferreira for an exclusive tour of his sustainable home. Chris will reveal how he is applying the principles of eco design at his Hamilton Hill property.
During this tour you will view a sustainable home under construction. See the process of building four homes on a single block, while retaining a beautiful garden and tree canopy. Discover the secrets of solar passive design, the latest energy efficiency gadgets and explore grey water systems. |
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DIY Beeswax Wraps - Plastic Free July Learn how to make beautiful, reusable and natural food wraps in this workshop with the City's Waste Education Team. Beeswax wraps are a fun, natural, compostable and a safe alternative to plastic cling wrap. Each participant will come away with two beeswax wraps and the skills to make plenty more. This crafty workshop is suitable for teens and adults. BYO 100% cotton fabric (0.5m) to use on the day. Everything else will be provided. |
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Get Wild About Wetlands
These July school holidays get hands-on with the secrets of wetlands. Delivered in partnership with The Wetlands Centre, you will learn all about wicked worms, fabulous frogs, beautiful birds of prey and buzzing bees! Suitable for ages 5-12 years unless specified. All events held at The Wetlands Centre, Cockburn, 184 Hope Road, Bibra Lake. Closed in shoes and long trousers must be worn for all events.
Make sure you register quickly, these activities book out fast! |
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Henderson Waste and Recovery Park School Holiday Tour - with special guest! Want to learn how trash is transformed into treasure? Come along on our tour of the Henderson Waste Recovery Park. Learn how waste is turned into electricity and new products, and how you can minimise and reuse your own waste. Minimum age is 5 years old, adult supervision required.
When: Friday 16 July, 9.30–11.30am
Where: City of Cockburn Administration Centre, 9 Coleville Crescent, Spearwood |
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Cockatoo Kids Club Cockatoo Kids Club is a member-based program with up to eight activities offered each year.
This July holidays come meet Rex the Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo and learn about all the amazing work Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre does to help rescue and rehabilitate this species.
Age: 5-12 years. Annual membership is $20 or non-members can come along for $15 per activity.
When: Tuesday 6 July, 12.30-2.30pm
Where: The Wetlands Centre, Cockburn. 184 Hope Road, Bibra Lake. |
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Community Planting Events July-August Gather your family and friends and join us for a fun-filled morning of planting to help improve habitat values and enhance biodiversity. Light refreshments provided. BYO water bottle. BYO gloves where possible. Planting events upcoming in June-August: Please wear long pants, enclosed footwear and a hat. This is a free event, registration is required. |
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Make your own beeswax wraps, hand scrub and more
Saturday 17 July Have you ever wondered what we do with our waste? Where does it go? And how do we lessen all this stuff?
If these questions are on your mind, you’ve come to the right place. Join waste educator, Peg Davies, with over 13 years experience, to show just how you can avoid and reduce waste by living more lightly. Here you will learn about the easy and effective ways to save money and lessen your footprint on the planet, with fun activities to create your own waste-free household products. You will be able to make handwash, lip balm and beeswax wraps during this workshop. Please bring along a small jar.
The whole household can join in on this fun and informative workshop. |
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Abundance of Less
Saturday 24 July Join Kim from epoch training for this workshop will explore how to achieve better quality of life with reduced quantity of stuff. Come along and explore: -
Back to basics and living simply. Reduce your clutter and be rewarded with more -
Ingenious ways to be more resourceful – three local case studies -
Embracing the new ‘Share Economy’ – collaborative consumption is the new trend -
Food and fashion – clever ways to make more with less -
Becoming waste-wise – save money, develop creativity and help the planet -
Practising the Japanese art of Wabi-sabi.
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Waste & Enviro News Native Plant Subsidy - This year residents bought 7,240 subsidised plants and schools collected 660 free plants!
Held annually.
Cockburn Canopy 149 - Nearly 7km of local streets in a Beeliar residential suburb and a Bibra Lake industrial area will benefit from large-scale tree plantings in winter 2022. The City of Cockburn has received $37,446 from the State Government through the Water Corporation, as part of the $750,000 Urban Canopy Grant Program administered by the Western Australian Local Government Association. Find out more.
Double the bins, triple the rubbish! - Doubling the bins along an extended section of Coogee Beach this summer has prevented more than 7.6 tonnes of rubbish potentially entering Cockburn’s coastal environment. That’s equal to the weight of 50 Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphins!
Visitors to the 8km stretch of beach between North Coogee and Jervoise Bay Sailing Club at Woodman Point used 28 120 litre bins to triple the amount of rubbish collected during the peak summer period. Find out more.
City poised to replace local streetlights with LEDs - Cockburn Council has taken a vital step towards embarking on the single greatest energy reduction project the City has ever implemented.
with a goal to replace Western Power’s (WP) 13,850 outmoded streetlight luminaires in Cockburn with Smart Enabled LED lamps that use 80 per cent less energy. Following replacement, the annual cost of street lighting – which equates to 60 per cent of the City’s annual electricity year for 2020/2021 – will fall from $2.7m to $1.56m.. Find out more.
Electric waste truck trial begins - The City of Cockburn’s first electric waste truck has arrived and will initially be trialed during kerbside recycling collections.The electric waste truck trial is included in the City’s Climate Change Strategy 2020-2030. Find out more. |
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