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Top End Sustainable Living Festival

Announcing the Top End's first ever Sustainable Living Festival on Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th June, 2010 to be held at the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens in conjunction with the Tropical Garden Spectacular.

Presented by the Environment Centre NT and the Nursery & Garden Industry NT, in perfect Darwin dry season weather, the Tropical Garden Spectacular and Top End Sustainable Living Festival is two days full of new ideas, innovation, music, food, and creativity.

Featuring inspiring talks by national experts, interactive hands-on workshops and activities, exhibitors, stalls, fashion and homewares, food, live performances and much, much more.

Based on the highly successful Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, and building on previous World Environment Day Expos, the Top End Festival aims to showcase and celebrate the very best way forward for ecological and social sustainability.

To register your interest in sponsoring, exhibiting or contributing in other ways to this event, contact:

Top End Sustainable Living Festival Manager
c/- Environment Centre NT
tel 08 8981 1984 or email festival@ecnt.org

Further details posted here when available.

Environmental Law and Policy Seminar Series

About the Seminars

The Environmental Law and Policy Seminar Series are a new monthly event for environment sector professionals to focus on topical matters in environmental law and policy relevant to the Northern Territory.

The aim of the seminar series is to enhance discussion, cross-sector engagement and mutual understanding regarding topical environmental law and policy issues amongst government, private sector and community professionals involved in environment/ sustainability/ planning/ climate change matters relevant to the Northern Territory.

This series is being co-hosted by the EPA and the Environment Centre NT with likely future partners to include local government and private sector organisations.

Series 1 Details:

Exploring the Continuum of Engagement for Sustainable Community Outcomes – from Principles to Practice
Presenters: Vicky Critchley and Peter Cranko, Elton Consultants.

Events for 2010

If you have an event you would like posted here, email the details to admin@ecnt.org

View the latest reports released by the ECNT

Environment Centre NT and COOLmob submission to the Territory 2030 Steering Committee.
Click on the links below to view a pdf copy of the submission and the supporting document on housing infrastructure.
Territory 2030 Sumbission » Infrastructure Housing

2 September 2009
Finding Common Ground - the report from the Tropical Rivers Futures Forum held in April 2009.

14 March 2007
Towards a Solar City: Expanding solar photovoltaic (pv) electricity usage in the Darwin area. An examination if the potential for solar photovoltaic electricity usage in Darwin. (pdf 445kb)

10 August 2006
'Securing the Long-term Protection of the Daly River: options for conservation and appropriate development in the Daly River Catchment, NT' (PDF 586KB). An important discussion about options for the conservation and appropriate development of the Daly River.

2 August 2006
'Living Rivers in the NT' (PDF 231KB). A joint report by WWF Australia and the ECNT recommeding the development of a Living Rivers Act to conserve Top End rivers.

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