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  • Designing for Planetary Health: Bushfire Preparedness and a Simple Creative Life

  • Water Management, Optimism and Preparation to Reduce Disaster Risk

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  • The Trouble with Wombats and How to Help

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  • Designing for Planetary Health: Bushfire Preparedness and a Simple Creative Life

    28 September, 2023

    Julie Paterson and Manda Kaye’s home in Blackheath was designed with bushfire in mind and they are now preparing for the bushfire season. They’ve also moved to renewables and Julie is working on collaborative community art projects that embody the philosophy of re-using and re-making.

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  • Water Management, Optimism and Preparation to Reduce Disaster Risk

    13 September, 2023

  • September Local News

    1 September, 2023

  • The Trouble with Wombats and How to Help

    29 August, 2023

  • Learning as Resilience: Chris Tobin on History, Country and the Power of Different Perspectives

    14 August, 2023

Individuals

  • Designing for Planetary Health: Bushfire Preparedness and a Simple Creative Life

    28 September, 2023

    Julie Paterson and Manda Kaye’s home in Blackheath was designed with bushfire in mind and they are now preparing for the bushfire season. They’ve also moved to renewables and Julie is working on collaborative community art projects that embody the philosophy of re-using and re-making.

    Read More »
  • Water Management, Optimism and Preparation to Reduce Disaster Risk

    13 September, 2023

  • Learning as Resilience: Chris Tobin on History, Country and the Power of Different Perspectives

    14 August, 2023

Community Groups

  • The Trouble with Wombats and How to Help

    29 August, 2023

    These hairy, furry balls of cuteness are one of Australia’s most appealing animals, but many wombats are dying painful deaths from an infectious parasite. We joined the volunteers on a mission to save local wombats.

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  • Recreating the Social Benefits of a Corner Store in South Blackheath

    27 July, 2023

  • ‘Somewhere to Live’: Singing the Song of Homelessness

    22 June, 2023

Organisations

  • Counting Creatures to Recover: the Power of Citizen Science to Create Communities

    13 July, 2023

    Conservation Volunteers Australia recently facilitated a workshop in Blackheath where volunteers, citizen scientists and experts came together to share knowledge, survey bird populations and monitor nest boxes installed to support antechinus, glider and possum populations.

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  • ‘Somewhere to Live’: Singing the Song of Homelessness

    22 June, 2023

  • Making a Habit of Disaster Risk Reduction

    17 May, 2023

Businesses

  • Designing for Planetary Health: Bushfire Preparedness and a Simple Creative Life

    28 September, 2023

    Julie Paterson and Manda Kaye’s home in Blackheath was designed with bushfire in mind and they are now preparing for the bushfire season. They’ve also moved to renewables and Julie is working on collaborative community art projects that embody the philosophy of re-using and re-making.

    Read More »
  • Recreating the Social Benefits of a Corner Store in South Blackheath

    27 July, 2023

  • Megalong in the Megalong Valley: How Close is the Pasture to your Plate?

    8 June, 2023

Collaborations

  • September Local News

    1 September, 2023

    The Blackheath Rotary Club will launch its Birds, Bees, Butterflies and Bats Pollinator Project with a Pollinator Forum on Saturday 30 September at the Blackheath RSL. This and more, in news from Medlow to Mount Tomah.

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  • August Local News – From Medlow to Mount Tomah

    4 August, 2023

  • July Local News – from Medlow to Mount Tomah

    30 June, 2023

Educators/Researchers

  • Learning as Resilience: Chris Tobin on History, Country and the Power of Different Perspectives

    14 August, 2023

    Hamish Dunlop attends a talk by Dharug man Chris Tobin. Chris’ talk highlights how learning about other people’s cultures and ways of seeing can increase the resilience of individuals and communities.

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  • Reconnecting the Seven Sisters Songlines from Uluru to the East Coast of Australia

    18 May, 2023

  • Connect at Home: Books that Open your Heart to Country

    27 April, 2023

Artists

  • ‘Somewhere to Live’: Singing the Song of Homelessness

    22 June, 2023

    Hamish Dunlop attended the launch of ‘Somewhere to Live’, a song written and performed by The Blue Gums, Voices for Social Change. The song and accompanying video aim to raise awareness about the impacts of homelessness and housing insecurity in the Blue Mountains and across the Greater Sydney region.

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  • Reconnecting the Seven Sisters Songlines from Uluru to the East Coast of Australia

    18 May, 2023

  • Swamp Diaries: A Weedy Bunyip & the Water We Drink

    3 May, 2023

Government

  • Rooves, Tanks & Rain Gardens: Things We Can Do at Home to Save Water and Help the Environment

    24 May, 2023

    Planetary Health Initiative writer Hamish Dunlop talks to Amy St Lawrence from Blue Mountains City Council’s Healthy Waterways Team. Amy explains what she’s doing at her home to collect and use water. She also talks about how her rain garden reduces run-off during and after rainfall.

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  • Govetts Leap Catchment Group: Collaborating to Protect our Wilderness from Weeds

    10 May, 2023

  • Blue Mountains achieves global standard in Ecotourism

    24 March, 2023

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  • Reconnecting the Seven Sisters Songlines from Uluru to the East Coast of Australia

    18 May, 2023
  • Recreating the Social Benefits of a Corner Store in South Blackheath

    27 July, 2023
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    31 May, 2023
  • Designing for Planetary Health: Bushfire Preparedness and a Simple Creative Life

    28 September, 2023
  • Water Management, Optimism and Preparation to Reduce Disaster Risk

    13 September, 2023
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Sep 30
11:00 am - 4:00 pm Event Series

Art and Fashion Sale

Sep 30
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Rotary Club of Blackheath Pollinator Project Launch

Sep 30
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

OCDiva – Blackheath, one night only!

Oct 1
All day Event Series

Blackheath Community Farm

Oct 1
10:00 am - 3:00 pm Event Series

Art and Fashion Sale

Oct 2
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Event Series

Free Soup @ Blackheath Uniting Church

Oct 4
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Event Series

Blackheath Community Kitchen Garden

Oct 6
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series

Fridays at 125

Oct 7
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Event Series

Blackheath Community Farm Landcare Group

Oct 8
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Blackheath Community Farm

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BLACKHEATH AREA LOCAL NEWS

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Blackheath Area and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging as we live, work and play on Dharug and Gundungurra Country (Ngurra)

 

BIOREGIONAL COLLABORATION FOR PLANETARY HEALTH

The Bioregional Collaboration includes Blue Mountains City Council’s Planetary Health Initiative, Lithgow City Council, Western Sydney University’s Lithgow Transformation Hub, Mountains Community Resource Network and the Sustainability Workshop.

This project is supported by the Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (DRRF). The DRRF is jointly funded by the Australian and New South Wales governments.

 

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