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We need your toilet rolls!!! Puppetry project ‘Omoon’ is a workshop for years 5 & 6 primary students. Using empty toilet paper rolls, children will learn how to re-value rubbish into an art piece, creating their own puppetries about their experience of lockdown. Drop off your toilet paper rolls into the CERES Visitors centre for […]

This week is #FashionRevolutionWeek! Did you know that textiles are the most carbon intensive material on a per tonne bases? Small changes to your shopping habits can have large carbon impacts, and so we’ve teamed up with Kirsta from @mutualmuse to share her tips on shopping sustainably in Darebin. To learn more about the issues […]

Span’s Community Garden is currently receiving a “mini makeover”. We are replacing the existing garden beds with higher, more easily accessible garden beds, we have re mulched the pathways and are currently awaiting some new planting soil to be delivered. It’s a hive of activity out there. We still have some old garden wood available, […]

We are excited to announce a new service at Prace in partnership with La Trobe University! Introducing the Forms and Advocacy Assist Service (FAAS), a new program designed to assist local community members with form-filling support and consumer advocacy. FAAS is delivered by La Trobe University students, trained in providing a range of services. For […]

Shiatsu is a deeply healing bodywork, or massage, therapy based on the traditions of Traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. Shiatsu can provide support in the treatment of many conditions including musculoskeletal and physical, emotional and spiritual. Shiatsu can, however, be inaccessible for a number of reasons including price and the reluctance to be in a […]

In this brand new course offered right here at CERES, you will learn how we can all improve one of the most unsustainable sectors globally, one garment at a time. This course invites speakers locally and internationally to speak and share their thoughts on all aspects of sustainable fashion – from cotton farmers in India, […]

Many of us have them, we move onto the new one and the old one simply makes its way into the bottom draw.  Mobile phones are what I am talking about. Do you have one stored away at home? We estimates that most Australian households have at least two old mobiles that are no longer […]

Sustainable Gardening Australia is running a series of five FREE webinars on edible gardening for Darebin residents. These webinars will present practical ideas and strategies for gardeners wishing to grow their own food at home, with the goal of improving health and wellbeing. Book your place in a session through the links below! Workshop topics […]

Span has approximately 70 -100 second hand bricks and some old garden wood and hardwood pallets that would be great for firewood. We need them collected ASAP to make way for our recently donated water tank to be installed. If interested, please call Span on 9480 1364

Borrow . Use . Return A zero-waste, reusable coffee cup initiative by Darebin City Council and Darebin Zero Waste Business Network.   thewangimproject@gmail.com Wangim aims to remove the need for single-use cups. Sustainability Victoria estimates that one billion single-use coffee cups are used in Australia every year. Due to both our recycling crisis and difficulty in […]