Collaborations Over the years, Transition Darebin has worked together with various different groups to achieve great things. Darebin Hard Rubbish Heroes ‘Darebin Hard Rubbish Heroes’ is a group dedicated to saving useable items and materials from landfill throughout the City of Darebin particularly at hard rubbish colllection times throughout the year. We are also about promoting the concept of ‘recycle … Read More
Convivial Kitchen and Garden
Convivial Kitchen and Garden is about learning new skills, engaging in hands-on workshops or watching practical demonstrations. We learn cooking skills, gardening skills, and other useful things. It’s community run, so either a facilitator comes in or it is led by a local person. These workshops have been running since 2014 and have been run a few times a year. … Read More
Darebin Repair Cafe
Waste is one of the biggest problems we’re facing today – things we buy break, can’t be easily fixed, and end up going to landfill, meaning we lose valuable resources and our landfills grow. But if we could fix some of these things beforehand, we could help make things better. Darebin Repair Cafe, part of the international Repair Cafe movement, … Read More
Upskilling 2021
Our main project for 2021 is a program of training workshops for local sustainability group members, part funded by a Banyule City Council Environment Grant. We are building the capacity of members of sustainability groups in Banyule to become more effective at catalysing change. Thanks to members of our network for making this project happen: Maria, Megan, Robyn, Jo, Heather … Read More
Barkly Village (West Footscray)
Exciting times for Barkly Village to create a rich village hub not a thoroughfare. Projects Underway: Clarke St pop-up park and cycle connection tot he railway track Several parklet earmarked for the local area
2020 Council Election
October is Banyule Council election time and to help you find out what the candidates stand for in the areas of conservation and climate change we sent a questionnaire to all the 52 candidates, with 6 days to reply for inclusion on this website. We received replies from 16 candidates. We are not endorsing any particular candidate but helping to … Read More
Sustainability in the Suburbs 2020: Recharge and Reconnect
A series of online workshops and webinars brought to you by the Transition Banyule Network to support local people to Recharge and Reconnect. During lockdown in Melbourne, we stayed home while coming together via Zoom to have fun celebrating sustainable living. The program included ‘Something for Parents, Something for Kids, Something for Everyone’. Average participant rating across the series: 4.5/5 … Read More
Westside Cohousing
We are a forming Group in Melbourne’s inner west. We are passionate about creating a convivial inclusive community that is environmentally sustainable through built-environment design and by support sustainable lifestyle choices ongoing. Our Vision: To provide a sustainable, resilient and long term model of housing that will foster participation of all members, the local community and beyond. Our Mission: To … Read More
Sugar Gliders in Banyule
We won a Pick My Project community grant The Banyule Sugar Glider Project (BSGP) was one of the 237 projects across the state to win a Pick My Project (PMP) Community Grant in 2019. The project will discover protect and enhance the wildlife corridors on the Eastern area of the Plenty River known as the Vegetation Protection Overlay 1. Sugar … Read More