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SEPTEMBER 2010 Saturday 18th September & Sunday 19th September "The Beauty of Biodiversity" Art ExhibitionPoster "The Beauty of Biodiversity" Information Sheet "The Beauty of Biodiversity" Superb Fairy Wren by Courtesy Rachel Carroll AUGUST 2010 Sunday 22nd August Sunday at the Sanctuary - "North Head Sanctuary - A living Lab"Sunday at the Sanctuary - Flyer
"The Shortest Green Film Competition" for High School StudentsInvitation for "The Shortest Green Film Competition" Brittany & Jamie gearing up for the film festival - Photo
The Banksia ChallengeParticipate in the Banksia Challenge Photo of Aemula - Copyright Judith Halnan Transport The 135 bus leaves from Manly Wharf. There is a bus stop near North Head Sanctuary entrance on Scenic Drive; drive up Blue Fish Road and park in the Sanctuary carpark or jump on your bike. Come and see way this place is so special. APRIL 2010 Thursday 22nd April Disposable cups are mugging our ecosystem – try reusable cups insteadThe Manly Environment Centre is hosting an information display (including a ‘visual installation’) at Manly Wharf to encourage us all to break the environmentally damaging ‘disposable cup habit’ as part of fortieth ‘Earth Day Celebrations’ on Thursday, 22 April 2010.Australians use approximately 500 million disposable cups a year (that’s 951 per minute). Most of these cups cannot be recycled (due to the plastic lining and lids) and take over 50 years to bio-degrade. Using reusable cups, however, helps save trees, lowers CO2 emissions, reduces landfill, and saves energy. In Manly alone, it is estimated that more than 750,000 disposable cups per year are used. According to the US-based coffee giant, Starbucks: “If only 50 customers a day in every store were to use reusable mugs, Starbucks would save 150,000 disposable paper cups daily. This equals 1.7 million pounds of paper, 3.7 million pounds of solid waste, and 150,000 trees a year.” Partnering the Manly Environment Centre Earth Day event are the International College of Management Sydney (ICMS) Green Team and staff, KeepCup, and Sydney Ferries. In addition, local cafes including Barefoot Coffee Traders, Bean Rush, Brookvale TAFE, Fusion Point, ICMS Courtyard Café, Red Earth Coffee are participating by offering a variety of discounts to patrons who bring their own reusable cup on Earth Day. MEC on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OJyJdhU9ZA For further information contact Manly Environment Centre: 9976 2842 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Saturday April 24th ‘A Day at the Bay’ - Earth Day Celebrations focus on Manly’s Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic ReserveName of the event: 'A Day at the Bay' An informative and entertaining ‘Earth Day Celebration’ will be hosted by the Manly Environment Centre at Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve (Manly Beach headland to Shelly Beach) from 10.00am to 4.00pm on Saturday 24 April 2010. The Manly Environment Centre is celebrating the 40th annual Earth Day with ‘A Day at the Bay’ - the main activities located on Shelly Beach with a small number of marine-focused stalls, a giant art banner kids’ activity (a work in progress throughout the day), guided snorkel tours, rock platform walks and marine talks. Local artists and photographers are invited to set up for the day around Cabbage Tree Bay, providing an opportunity to capture the beauty of the area and its rich biodiversity. The event will also provide an opportunity for the public to comment on the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water’s (DECCW) ‘Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve: Draft Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserve) Regulation 2009 and Implementation Strategy’ Members of the public and community interest groups are being invited by the DECCW to comment in writing on the draft management plan regulation and draft implementation strategy, submissions being considered before the regulation and implementation strategy are finalised in mid-2010. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/parkmanagement/10088ctbardraftreg.pdf For more information or to book for free guided snorkel tours, rock platform walks, photography & environmental walks and talks, contact the Manly Environment Centre on 9976 2842 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
March 2010
February 2010 Manly Environment Center's Eco Awards July 2009 Name of the event: Lagoon Life Festival Manly Lagoon is the location for the Manly Environment Centre’s upcoming event – ‘Lagoon Life Festival’ to be held on Sunday 23rd August from 11am – 4pm, for families and the community. The Lagoon has been the focus of several large celebratory events over the years including the highly awarded - Kids, Companies and Creeks program run throughout the ‘90’s. A reunion is planned to bring together all involved in this event, along with those who participated in the ‘Save Manly Dam’ campaign and those who attended the ‘In Tune with the Lagoon’ concert with a surprise visit from Midnight Oil, held at Kierle Park in 2002. A reunion photo shoot is also planned. Where are you now? At our ‘Lab at the Lagoon’ being run in conjunction with National Science Week, there will be plenty of activities being held in the ‘lab’ throughout the day for kids, students and adults. The festival will focus on lagoon life and the wetlands environment around the lagoon, with numerous activities happening throughout the day. Key Features of the event include: • ‘Lab at the Lagoon’ – Macro-inverterbrate - ‘what are they?’ June - 2009 Celebrate ‘Life at the Lagoon’ Festival Hop in and help, sign up for science, leg-it to Manly Lagoon Festival, opposite Queenscliff Beach, on Sunday 23rd August, 11.00am – 4.00pm. Bring family and friends. Featuring ‘art in the park’, a ‘lab at the lagoon’, talks tent, kids and youth activities, live music /performances and much more. Enquiries Manly Environment Centre, tel: 02 9976 2842. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
May - 2009 Guringai Festival – A Talk with Frances Bodkin April - 2009Talk with Jennifer Simpson March - 2009 Winner of the Manly Environment Centre Annual Eco Award 2009
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