On Sunday 16th March 2025 Transition Town Vincent hosted a workshop – ‘Transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink’ at the Floreat Athena Clubrooms located at the NW corner of Britannia Reserve in Leederville. This page contains resources associated with the workshop. The workshops objectives were: Introduce the basic principles for transforming your yard or courtyard into a … Read More
Forum – Transforming the City into a Carbon Sink
The aim of this forum is to raise awareness and facilitate discussion around the concept of using a circular / regenerative urbanism approach to transform urban food and woody waste into carbon rich products such as compost and biochar and sinking this back into the soil to provide a range of benefits such as reducing irrigation demand, improving plant growth … Read More
Soil Organic Carbon and Urban Soil
Introduction Soil and terrestrial vegetation are carbon sinks with around two thirds of the terrestrial carbon pool sequestered in soil (ASOE,2021). Clearing, development and management of land for intensive landuses such as agriculture and urban have resulted in the loss of significant amounts of terrestrial carbon and organic matter with Australia listed as number 3 (behind China and the United … Read More
Biochar research
This page is intended to provide a compendium of biochar related research related to themes being pursued through the My Healthy Soils Project. As such it is limited in its scope. Please scroll down the page as required. This page will be updated as time allows. Last update 6/12/2024. General Joseph et al. (2022) How biochar works, and when it doesn’t: … Read More
Biochar for Community Gardens
In July of this year Ian Kininmonth from the Transition Town Vincent (TTV) My Healthy Soils Project approached the North Perth Community Garden (NPCG) about biochar and the prospect of having a workshop demonstrating how to make and use biochar in the community garden. Like many community gardens, the NPCG already produced compost and worm castings/juice from other organic waste … Read More
Clothing Industry
Clothing/Fashion Industry Why does it matter? The fast fashion industry is inherently degenerative. Worldwide, the combined emissions for the clothing and footwear industry are roughly 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The fast fashion movement is renowned for underpaying their employees 10 Statistics About Fast Fashion Waste (information sourced from https://earth.org/statistics-about-fast-fashion-waste/ and based on US statistics 1. 92 Million … Read More
Local Recycling
Ideally, we want to Refuse, Reduce, Repurpose our “waste.” The next best step is to Recycle Bridgetown Library Recycling Hub Located at Bridgetown Library 75 Steere Street, Bridgetown, WA, 6255, (08) 9761 2503, Opening Hours 10am -5pm Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, 10am -7pm Thursday 9am -12 noon Saturday (These opening hours are valid as … Read More
My Healthy Soils
Some useful resources relevant to the Transition Town Vincent (TTV) My Healthy Soils Project including program logic, guidelines, papers, and videos. Project One pager Project overview Program logic Newsletters January 2025 November 2024 Information Guideline Planting fruit trees with biochar and compost Guidelines – Operation of the Top Lit Updraft TLUD Biochar Oven V2 Biochar Workshop Flyer NPCG v2 Biochar … Read More
Community Food Forest
Resources relevant to the planning, planting, monitoring and maintenance of the Transition Town Vincent Community Food Forest. Resources 1. Project Inception Report – TTV Community Food Forest – July 2023 2. Progress Report – Using biochar and compost in the City of Vincent Community Food Forest- January 2024 3. Guideline Planting fruit trees with biochar and compost Photo album
Ageing in our Community
PAGE UNDER DEVELOPMENT Ageing in our Community Open Space – March 2024 Power point presentations are available, please … Read More