EcoCentre in St Kilda, Victoria | Non-profit organisation

EcoCentre

Locality: St Kilda, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9534 0670

Address: St Kilda Botanic Gardens, 55A Blessington St 3182 St Kilda, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.ecocentre.com

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24.01.2022 This week, we're celebrating NAIDOC Week with the City Of Port Phillip's calendar of virtual programs. The week is a great opportunity for people from all walks of life to participate in a range of activities that celebrate and support our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Click through for the full program >

22.01.2022 Tawny frogmouths are a local favourite, bringing joy when they're spotted camouflaging in trees in local parks. From their mating rituals to their nest-building skills, there's a lot you might not know about these fascinating birds.

20.01.2022 We're thrilled to be listed as finalists in several awards being announced this month. Congratulations to all EcoCentre volunteers, partners and staff involved in these projects! Keep Victoria Beautiful: 2020 Sustainable Cities Awards (Ceremony: 13 Nov) Living Water Workbees (Finalist: Environment Award) Multicultural Bay Ambassadors (Finalist: Young Legends Award)... St Kilda Repair Cafe, in partnership with JECO The Jewish Ecological Coalition (Finalist: Waste Award) NatureSpot, in partnership with City Of Port Phillip (Finalist: Council Environment Award) Victorian Marine and Coastal Awards (Ceremony: 20 Nov) Fam Charko (Finalist: Individual Achievement and Emerging Leader) Port Phillip Baykeeper Program (Finalist: Inspiring Community Engagement and Education)

20.01.2022 We build relationships to inspire, educate and demonstrate sustainability and reconnect people to the natural world.

18.01.2022 Our online incursions are the perfect end of term celebration for your students! Meet Australia's penguins! In this session, we’ll be understanding their behaviour/habits, known life-cycles, functional morphology (anatomy) and their diverse evolutionary traits that have allowed many penguin species to dominate southern marine ecosystems. Find out more: ecocentre.com/incursions/online

17.01.2022 Congratulations to Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake ... and 27,000 of you* who joined BAYKEEPER PROGRAMS in the last 5 years! WINNER: Inspiring Community Engagement and Education - Victorian Marine and Coastal Awards 2020. We're heartwarmed and humbled by the calibre of the finalists. *Okay.... we didn't list you by name in the nomination or fit you all in the photo here, but truly remember each of you who join us to #BeABaykeeper, connect to and protect our beautiful waterways. So please join us on a beach in 2021 so we can high five over this collective recognition! We miss you!

16.01.2022 In Port Phillip we are no strangers to the impacts of the current climate emergency, having experienced dangerous levels of bushfire smoke, heatwaves and flooding in recent times. Find out what the CSIRO Victorian Climate Projections tell us about Port Phillip's future climate conditions: https://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au//su/climate-projections Sustainable Port Phillip

09.01.2022 Today's State Budget has brought some big wins for the environment, including: $797m for household energy efficiency, solar, and batteries, with $335m supporting low-income households to install energy-efficient reverse-cycle air conditioners $540m to establish six renewable energy zones $16m directed towards programs to protect our coast from the effects of climate change... Read more in Environment Victoria's excellent summary of the Budget.

06.01.2022 Congratulations to the EcoCentre's Fam Charko, a marine biologist and passionate science communicator and just awarded Victorian Marine and Coastal Awards *2020 Emerging Marine and Coastal Leader*. A self-declared ‘girl with gills’, Fam expresses and shares her deep connection to the land and waters of her adopted home of Australia dedicating her work and personal time connecting to and protecting the coasts and marine environment of Victoria. We love working with Fam and kn...ow how many of you do too! Fam's first words of acceptance (in a surprise Zoom call to live feed into the online ceremony) were how humble she feels because she is part of such an enormous network -- and her advice is to get your hands dirty, and connect with likeminded folk. You can see why she's a dream team member at the EcoCentre! Congratulations @Fam Charko. Fam (and our team) cannot wait to get to celebrate with all of you somewhere in nature in 2021.

05.01.2022 Tomorrow we're taking the 15th Annual School Sustainability Festival online for the very first time! Students across the state -- and even the Northern Territory -- have prepared video and live presentations, for a fun-filled day of kids teaching kids about sustainability. Congratulations to all 250 participating students from 17 schools for your hard work so far, and we can't wait to see your presentations tomorrow! Pictured: sneak peeks from the presentations from St James Primary School, Gardenvale Primary School, and St Kilda Park Primary School.

04.01.2022 Planning a picnic this long weekend? Don't forget to go zero waste: choose reusables and avoid plastics! We're thrilled to partner with International Waste Platform to bring you these multilingual posters. They're designed to help restaurants, fast food chains, take-away providers, cafés, shops, supermarkets, and canteens in schools and workplaces around the world reduce waste by encouraging people to bring their own reusables. Find out more: https://internationalwasteplatfor...m.org/campaign-materials/ Sustainable Port Phillip Bayside City Council, Victoria Stonnington City Council Zero Waste Victoria Tangaroa Blue Yarra Riverkeeper Association

02.01.2022 In April 2020, the Star of the South officially kickstarted the environmental approvals process after being referred to both the federal and Victorian governments. But if governments go slow, we could be waiting years to see this game changing offshore wind project deliver action on climate. Join our mates at Friends of the Earth and call on both the Morrison and Andrews governments to prioritise putting in frameworks to create thousands of jobs in offshore wind.