Events

Waterwise Verge and Garden Workshop

The Tom Dadour Community Centre 363 Baggot Road, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

Come and join us for a hands-on community workshop to understand ways to create a waterwise, climate resilient garden. The City is hosting a family-friendly Waterwise Verge and Garden Workshop to show what is really involved in creating a sustainable waterwise garden. As a fusion of entertainment and environmental education, this fast-paced and engaging ‘performance’…

Blue Growth Conference 2024

Esplanade Hotel Fremantle by Rydges 46-54 Marine Tce, Fremantle, WA, Australia

The Blue Growth Conference convenes industry leaders in Australia and South East Asia growing sustainable ocean-based ventures, particularly those leveraging our remarkable marine biodiversity: Aquaculture and wild harvest: fish, mollusk, crustaceans, pearl, seaweed Marine bioproducts: nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, bioplastics Ecosystem regeneration: seagrass, seaweed, coral reef Supply chain: monitoring, construction, automation, maintenance, energy, and finance This expanded conference will…

Creating a native waterwise verge

Stirling Libraries - Dianella Waverley Street, Dianella, Western Australia, Australia

Do you have a grassed verge? Would you like to create a native waterwise verge full of wildlife this autumn? Then this workshop is for you! Planting a verge with low growing plants, either natives or even vegetables, can help address the Urban Heat Sink affect caused by losing tree canopy and installing hard stand…

Site Tour – Woodman Point WRRF and Hazer Hydrogen Demonstration Plant

Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre , Australia

Connected by Water - Pre event Site Tours Site Tour Two - Woodman Point WRRF and Hazer Hydrogen Demonstration Plant Water Corporation’s Woodman Point Resource Recovery Facility is Perth’s largest, treating up to 180 megalitres per day through an advanced activated sludge process. The facility is also currently undergoing an upgrade to include thermal hydrolysis…

Site Tour – Wetlands of Boorloo (Perth) Walking Tour

Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre , Australia

Connected by Water Pre-event Site Tours Site Tour Three – Wetlands of Boorloo (Perth) Walking Tour Join Jason Barrow, proud Noongar man with Danjoo Koorliny, Nandi Chinna, researcher, poet and author of Swamp; walking the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain, Sarah Hill – Manager Parks at City of Vincent, and Winsome MacLaurin, lead for…

Site Tour – Water Corporation’s Advanced Water Recycling Plant and Water Research & Innovation Precinct

Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre , Australia

Connected by Water - Pre event site tours Site Tour One - Water Corporation’s Advanced Water Recycling Plant and Water Research & Innovation Precinct Water Corporation’s Advanced Water Recycling Plant is leading the way in advancing Australia’s perceptions and acceptance of treating used water to turn it into high quality drinking water. This innovative scheme…

Workshop: Integrating eDNA into bioassessment and monitoring of subterranean fauna in Western Australia

Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre, Kensington 17 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia

What will the future look like? Resource companies in Western Australia are mandated to assess and monitor groundwater biodiversity as part of the State’s Environmental Protection Agency legislative requirements. However, current groundwater survey techniques rely on traditional taxonomy and DNA sequencing of individual specimens, which are time-consuming, expensive and biased towards common taxa. The ARC…

National WSUD Compliance Network – February Meeting

Online - Times in AWST

This is the third meeting of the National WSUD Compliance Network. The Network is looking at improving WSUD compliance in Australia by regularly bringing together a range of experienced and diverse stakeholders. This meeting will look to dive deeper into the materials of the WSUD Maintenance Compliance Framework. This meeting will go for 90 minutes…

PIA PLANET Online │ Environmental Impact Assessment in WA – EPA assessment and EPBC Act

Online - Times in AWST

The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is the peak environmental agency in WA and is responsible for carrying our environment impact assessments (EIA) of significant proposals, many of which are planning proposals or have significant planning implications: for example, the Bunbury Outer Ring Road, Kemerton Power Station, Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant, Smiths Beach Project, Yallingup…