Workshop - Transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink
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:
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Introduce the basic principles for transforming your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink.
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Find out from experts and local residents how they are doing it.
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Identify your objectives and resourcing requirements.
- Outline a process for supporting you in achieving your objectives
About 36 people came and heard a range of speakers talk about how to transform your yard or courtyard into a carbon sink. Speakers presentations are below
Speakers notes:
Ian Kininmonth, Transition Town Vincent – Context: Soil organic carbon levels in urban Perth and implications for natural resource management.
Professor Lyn Abbott – University of Western Australia: Soil biology: creating a carbon sink.
Dr Grey Coupland – Murdoch University – Miyawaki forests program and creating a simple composting system
Community members – Case studies of treatments for transforming your yard or courtyard into carbon sinks.