Eco Health Expo 2015

Eco Health Expo 2015
The 2015 Eco Health Expo was held at the Morisset PCYC on 28 June 2015.
The Expo brought together a mixture of fascinating speakers, workshops, organic wine tasting, sustainability-based stallholders and children's entertainment including a magician and face painting.

Expert presentations included:

No Time to Waste, Tim Silverwood, Take 3
A Community DIY Solution to Monitoring Air Pollution, Dr John Mackenzie, Hunter Community Environment Centre
Coal and Health in the Hunter, " Lessons from one valley to the world ", Nick Higginbotham, Climate and Health Alliance
Climate Reality, Nigel George, Al Gore Climate Reality Project participant
Healthy Buildings for a Low-Carbon Age, John Shiel, Permaculture Hunter
Community Renewable Energy, Alec Roberts, Clean Energy Association of Newcastle and Surrounds (CLEANaS), and Stuart Blanch, Hunter Wetlands Centre Australia
Ticks and your health, Professor Tim Roberts, Tom Farrell Institute
Stationary Energy and Agriculture and Agriculture & Land Use, Petra Liverani, Beyond Zero Emissions

and workshops...

Various permaculture workshops (eg growing food, controlling pests, closing the loop, food forests and seed saving), Lachlan Storrie, Tree Frog Permaculture
Sustainable foods: a discussion, Angela Flack, Author of Edible: Plant-based, Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Naturally Sweetened Wholefoods.
Eco Magic Show, David Whitson

Tim Silverwood

Angela Flack

David Whitson, Eco Magician

Dr John Mackenzie

Lachlan Storrie

Petra Liverani

Professor Tim Roberts

Nick Higginbotham

John Shiel

Nigel George

Stuart Blanch

Alec Roberts

Find out more about the Morisset and Peninsula Sustainable Neighbourhood Group

Presented by the Morisset and Peninsula Sustainable Neighbourhood Group with support from Lake Macquarie City Council’s Community Funding Program, Hunter Local Land Services and many local organisations.

Major Sponsors:
Lake Macquarie City Council
Hunter Local Land Services

Proudly supported by:
Permaculture Hunter
Tree Frog Permaculture
Lake Macquarie Sustainable Neighbourhood Alliance
M1 Mega Storage
Vanguard Lawyers
PCYC Morisset
Wyee Nursery
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
Clear Water Yoga
Get Movin Rentals

Sustainable Neighbourhoods Lake Macquarie
Our vision - Neighbourhoods that are empowered to live sustainably.
Our mission - Our work is to foster sustainable neighbourhoods and a healthy environment in Lake Macquarie
Our values - We are guided by our values of participation, inclusion, collaboration, empowerment and shared responsibility.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters on which we live, work and play, the Awabakal People, and acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who now reside in this area. We pay our respect to Elders past and present, and future cultural knowledge holders.

The Lake Macquarie Sustainable Neighbourhood Alliance is registered as a not for profit incorporated association under NSW Fair Trading. Sustainable Neighbourhood activities are managed and governed by volunteers and financed through grants, collaboration and community fundraising.

Sustainable Neighbourhoods is an initiative of Lake Macquarie City Council.
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We are proud to be a Very Neighbourly Organisation and supporter of Neighbour Day.
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