Carbon Neutral Expo Fremantle 1 October

The City of Fremantle has just become the first carbon neutral local government in the state and the second in the country! For over a decade the City has been making incremental reductions in greenhouse gas emissions of its corporate operations. With the growing awareness of the potential severity and urgency of climate change however, the City decided that more drastic action is needed. Resolving to become carbon neutral in March, the City become carbon neutral less than 4 months later.

Free Expo
There is a session open to the public from 10am-3pm. This will have stalls all day including: organic wine, local native plants, solar and wave power, free bike sharing and Living Smart. There will also be speakers from 12-2pm explaining the challenges of climate change and some of the responses that our society can make. Entry is free and there’s some great door prizes.

Special Evening Event
In the early evening from 4-6pm, there will also be another session for invited guests. This will have the same stalls, some different speakers (notably CUSP’s Peter Newman), some organic wine and food and local beer. Each invited guest will also have 1 tonne of CO2e offset on their behalf and will be able to take home a local native plant for their garden. You are obviously welcome at this session and I have attached a pdf invite for this. We need RSVPs (to the planning email address in the invite), so that we know how many offsets and trees to set aside and how many we need to cater for.
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