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Call out for Bin Faeries!

Dec 6, 2019

It’s Denmark Arts Market time again. Green Skills will continue the amazing success of our Not Waste education program. The Bin Faeries are a chance to be on the ground talking to our community and making a real difference in waste separation. To augment this Green Skills and Denmark Arts have been helping stall holders…

Green Skills Twilight Market in Albany

Dec 3, 2019

40 stall holders at the Twilight Markets! Encouraging “shop local this Christmas” is the theme behind the inaugural Green Skills Twilight Markets. After extensive tours of UK Christmas twilight markets in 2018, and knowing how creative the great southern community is, Green Skills Albany Manager, Anne Sparrow, came back to Albany inspired to provide opportunity…

Green Fair 2019 in Sunny Albany

Nov 21, 2019

Green Skills was pleased to support the City of Albany to run another successful Green Fair in November 2019. With a jam-packed schedule of demonstrations, speakers, workshops, displays, music and market stalls, there were plenty of sustainable skills to look at.

Combatting dune erosion at Coogee Beach

Nov 18, 2019

Visitors to Coogee Beach will notice Ecojobs staff working in the dunes – not trampling, but using a technique called “brushing”.

Balijup Sanctuary Citizen Science Event Focusses on Elusive Native Fauna

Oct 17, 2019

For two days in mid-October, Green Skills held a Citizen Science environmental monitoring event at the Balijup Sanctuary near Tenterden.

Food is Free Project

Oct 10, 2019

The Albany office has been running a ‘Food is Free’ cart since 2017 at 38 Graham Street, inspired by the Food is Free laneway in Ballarat, VIC.

Bushland Survey on Currawong Farm – Draft Report Available for Feedback

Oct 8, 2019

Bushland Survey on Currawong farm- Draft Report Available for feedback. On Monday 9th September 2019 Green Skills conducted its fourth ‘ Rapid Snapshot Bushland Assessment and Eco Planning’ survey on Currawong farm, near Boxwood HIll.

The Denmark Community Garden – Growing and Engaging South Coast Community Gardeners

Oct 2, 2019

The Denmark Community Garden is operated by Green Skills in collaboration with the Denmark CRC and was opened in March 2019.

Meet the Team: Mystine Brown

Sep 26, 2019

Mystine has been a longtime Ecojobs casual, since July 2016. She is a versatile member of Ecojobs, from hand-weeding and chemical weed control to local government Natural Resource Management positions.