Sustainable living
The Sustainable City Program is moving around the suburbs of Newcastle and currently in Beresfield, Tarro, Sandgate, Hexham and Black Hill.
The goals of the program are to inspire confidence in the low-carbon and sustainable society of the future as well as to increase knowledge of earth science and our impacts.
The program assists with the adoption sustainable living practises such as installing solar hot water, growing your own veges, using energy and water more efficiently or installing water tanks. We aim to see an improvement in all indicators suburb by suburb: starting with a reduction in water and energy usage.
To see the latest, click here.
Useful publications
Download our brochure on wormfarming (126.6kb pdf) and find out how to set up a worm farm in your backyard.
Want to learn how to start an organic garden in your backyard? Download our brochure on ‘From Garden Gate to Dinner Plate' (118 kb pdf).
Download the comprehensive guide to living sustainably for residents of Blue Gum Hills and neighbours (1.5mb pdf)
For information on environmental education programs please contact our Environmental Educator Officer on 02 4974 2847 or email: mail@ncc.nsw.gov.au.
