Springwood Area Local News Strengthening community, healing Country, and restoring the health of our planet.

Are you keen to find a new career path that can fill you with joy and contribute to restoring the health of our planet at the same time? There`s a growing need for skills to support circular and regenerative economies! Join us on Skillshare Saturday 7 Sep with our free Upcycling Fashion program from 9am to 3pm and Bushcare from 1.30-4.30pm. Bookings essential for Fashion Upcycling (link in profile): https://bit.ly/3XddWJs Contact Karen Hising to come along to Bushcare at khising@bmcc.nsw.gov.au or call the Bushcare Office on 4780 5623

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We need your help! Would you fill in this 4-min survey to help the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative report back to the funding body and enable us to seek more funding (link in profile): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9XC9TG8
Over the last 18 mths we`ve delivered a massive program to help the community prepare for future fires, extreme wet weather events and heatwaves. We`ve built a Circular Water Demonstration site to showcase how we could increase water storage around our city as well as the latest research in building bushfire sprinklers and new technology for recycling grey water; we`ve organised over 60 presentations/workshops/events; we`ve built 6 neighbourhood news sites with links to emergency services, What`s On Calendars, Community Directories, Real Time Air Quality Monitoring and hundreds of stories written by local people about local solutions. Thank you to everyone who has helped and participated. Now we need your feedback to guide future programming and apply for more funding and sponsorship. Please take 4 mins to do the survey or email planetaryhealth@bmcc.nsw.gov.au to give us your feedback. ...

The Planetary Health Precinct was buzzing on Friday. We attended the Inaugural Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area (GBMWHA) Conference organised by the @bluemountainswhi during the day, and in the evening were inspired and uplifted by Andrew Skeoch from https://www.facebook.com/listeningearth at our Deep Listening to Nature event.

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We are SO looking forward to this: 6pm at the Planetary Health Centre tonight! We`ll hear from the inspiring acoustic ecologist, Andrew Skeoch, who will guide us into hearing the languages of nature. Andrew is a professional wildlife sound recordist and author of ‘Deep Listening to Nature’. His recordings have been heard in documentaries, installations and feature films such as Peter Gabriel`s soundtrack to `Rabbit Proof Fence’. The event is free but bookings essential (link in profile): https://bit.ly/4c6e6rP
Over the last thirty years, he has been documenting the sounds of environments around the planet, and through his label `Listening Earth`, published over one hundred recordings allowing listeners to immerse themselves in wild soundscapes from around the world.
Learn how we can develop our auditory awareness, identify species by ear, recognise behaviours and repertoire, and find empathy with the voices of other beings. Deeper listening allows us to hear the integrity of entire ecosystems, and reveals what the communications of the biosphere tell us about how nature functions to achieve sustainability. Andrew’s presentations are an immersive weaving of evocative recordings, fascinating spectrogram analysis and original ideas. You’ll hear the natural environment around you in a whole new way.
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