Earth Flix: Cinema 4 Change Hits 1000 Bookings Following The Screening Of The Koalas
We have hit 1000 Earth Flix Bookings!! Thank you to all of our supporters so far. For August we had 95 people attend The Koalas, contributing to the 1000 bookings! Sharing these wonderful screenings with friends and family is essential to getting more people along, education is key to understanding, building passion and driving action!
The Koalas, was followed by two shorts, Enhancing Koalas Habitat: A community effort, created by NViro Media for Local Land Services (LLS) (link here to watch) and the Southern Highlands Koala Conservation Project (DCCEEW) (link here to watch). If you missed The Koalas, you could still catch it at another community screening while it tours the state, see the link here to attend another screening.
The Koalas documentary outlined the impacting factors affecting our koala populations, with the biggest being destruction of their natural habitat due to land clearing for development. The Government inquiry projected that koala populations could be extinct in the wild by 2050. This statistic is very worrying, but there are ways you can help.
Recording sightings of koalas is the best way to create a digital record of where they reside to help inform planning decisions. How do you report sightings? Report your koala sightings to Council. You can report signs of koalas too, including scats (poo), scratches, and bellows. Even if you’re not sure, get in touch with Council and we can help confirm your observations for you!
Another way you can get involved is by joining one of Council’s private land conservation programs, like Land for Wildlife and Habitat for Wildlife or applying for an in-perpetuity conservation agreement over part of, or all of the bushland on your property to permanently protect it. For more information about Southern Highlands koalas visit wsc.nsw.gov.au/koalas, or follow The Southern Highlands Koala Conservation Project on Facebook or Instagram.
On September 11 we are screening River Blue. This film explores the impact fashion production has on our natural resources; the toxic dyes used, and the impact this has on rivers, nature and the communities nearby. Textile waste is a global issue driven by consumer behaviour and poor-quality clothing, and unfortunately the communities impacted the most are the ones that live well below the poverty line and have very little choice about how they must earn a living, or the state of the environment they live in.
Following the screening we will talk with local sustainability hero Kirstine McKay who has run her own clothes swap every year for over 10 years, we will hear about her wins and learnings and hopefully inspire our audience to start one of their own fun clothes swaps, taking home some new (to you) clothes is an excellent way to boost those retail endorphins! In addition, we will be joined by Nadiah Christensen to hear about some very exciting technological advances she has been working on in Melbourne, designing some zero-waste knitwear!
We hope to see you on September 11 at the Empire Cinema! Earth Flix: Cinema 4 Change | Wingecarribee Shire Council (nsw.gov..au)
Linking in with the messaging from River Blue we have just launched our host of events for Froctober - Resetting Fashion. Froctober consists of a variety of FREE events through October all about textiles, how they can be repaired, recycled, shared and loved. Globally fashion accounts for 10% of yearly emissions, with fast fashion being the biggest waste creating culprit. The brand Shein produces on average 200,000 new items per day, which are low quality, with many of these items found to contain toxic materials. Textile waste in Australia alone contributes 200,000 tonnes of clothing waste to landfill and we are now the leading consumer of textiles of all of the G20 Countries (not something we should be proud of), which translates into each Australian buying 27kgs of new clothing and then discarding 23kgs of clothing per year (Hot or Cool, Unfit Unfair Unfashionable 2022).
Head to the Council project page to learn more about these FREE Froctober events: Link here.