Your smart lifestyle can be enhanced by talking to our wonderful exhibitors!
From Builders to worms, bags to repair - heaps of information for your sustainable choices!
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Grampians Central West Waste & Resource Recovery Group - GOLD Sponsor
https://recyclingrevolution.com.au/

Grampians Central West Waste & Resource Recovery Group will once again host the Can Do Communities pop up in the hall at the Buninyong Smarter Building & Living Expo.
In keeping with a theme of ‘Keeping it Local – in your home and in your community’, there will be demonstrations by Granny Skills guru, Rebecca Sullivan on a variety of easy to do, waste free activities for your home – from cleaners to preserves to re-use of textiles – Granny skills is all about making do with what we have.
Captain Compost will also be there to show people how to compost, look after their worm farm and start some seed saving in their garden.
Kerrie Tomkins will also be back this year to show how homemade soap is made along with some home grown herbal teas.
If everyone makes a small change then that adds up to a large change. There will be something that everyone can do in their home.
Doing something in your community can be helping or volunteering with boomerang bag groups, repair cafes, local food co-operatives or local litter clean ups.
Powershop - Mint Sponsor
A Better Power Company - http://www.powershop.com.au/
Powershop supplies power to all kinds of homes and businesses in Australia and New Zealand as part of a crusade to simplify electricity for the benefit of customers. Powershop is wholly owned by the multi-billion dollar Meridian Energy Group – one of the world’s largest 100% renewable electricity generators.
Ballarat Lifestyle Builders - Mint Sponsor
With over 20 years building experience and only using registered competent trades people, lifestyle builders can help you build a quality home with sustainable living options to suit your lifestyle and budget.
Buninyong Community Bank - Mint Sponsor
Buninyong Community Bank - YES they know It makes sense to look after our home, and it is our mutual duty to future generations to act to reduce our impact on nature.
Peter Stevens Nissan - Lime Sponsor
The Nissan LEAF is a new-generation Nissan electric car. Feel the rush with instant acceleration and surprising power alongside zero exhaust emissions.
BREAZE Energy Solutions - Solar installations - Lime Sponsor
Breaze Energy Solutions specialise in Solar Power, Solar Hot Water and Energy - Efficiency for Domestic Homes and Commercial Businesses in the Central Highlands and Western District of Victoria.
Thermosmart Windows - Olive Sponsor

Double glazed windows. Thermosmart Windows are committed to providing products that are as Eco friendly and Energy efficient as possible, actively helping you reduce your carbon footprint whilst saving you money in the process.
Sun 2 Solar - Olive Sponsor
We provide quality products and efficient customer service;

with our dedicated team of experts, we make the porcess straightforward and easy.
RILU E-bikes - Olive Sponsor

Electric bicycles offer effortless, comfortable, fast, reliable and clean transport to Australians of all ages, shapes and sizes. RILU e-Bike electric bicycles are fun to ride for young & old!
Finding North - Aspects of Sustainability - Expo Director
Andrea Mason - Sustainable living, environment and community consultant
Largest Electric Vehicle/Hybrid Car and Motorcycle display includes Nissan Leaf, Tesla, Jaguar
Australian Electric Vehicle Assoc (AEVA) Latest range of EV and hybrid cars and their enthusiastic owners,
Brand names cars, and EV conversion projects on display.
EVolution Australia
Electric Vehicle Chargers
The Hidden Orchard
Home made jam
Architects Fulton & Salomon
Modern Minimalist Architecture and Interior Architecture
Ballarat Bicycle Centre
Bicycle sales
SNUG Hydronic Heating
Sustainable heating, heat pumps, hydronic heating
Regional Roads Victoria
Midland Hwy Towards Zero Project
We Bar None
Energy bars and crackers using home compostable packaging.
Dept Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Climate Change Adaptation, renewable energy, gardens for wildlife and flora/fauna
Sustainability Victoria
Advice for individuals about sustainable living and the choices we make
Flamingo Paperie
Quality greeting cards, Nepalese yak blankets
SUEZ
Recycling & Recovery from landfill
A&A Worm Farm Waste Systems
Worm Farm Waste Systems
Central Highlands Environmental Consultancy
Property vegetation and fire assessments
Switch On Sustainability
Tips to reduce your waste, food waste, reduce plastic usage, and live a healthier life overall
SO'R Construction
Straw bale and sustainable builder
Mother Earth Garden
Reusable snack and lunch bags
Paarhammer Windows
Windows and doors for energy efficiency and bushfire safety
Timberset Systems
Sustainable Building
Bethany Alice
Clothing and accessories made solely from old clothes and fabric scraps
Ecostainable Australia
Everything eco-friendly and sustainble, from bamboo toothbrushes, to non-toxic cleaning, skincare and body products.
Connies
Recycled blanket jackets and tops
Animal Justice Party
Political Party
Ballarat and District Victorian Greens
Political Party
Sharp As Sharpening
Knife, Scissor, Workshop and Garden tool sharpening. Also have two 15min demo's, keeping your garden tools sharp, keeping your knife sharp.
Keith McCallum
Local honey and plants
Midland Irrigation
Solar pumps and irrigation
Mind Your Own Beeswax
Reusable beeswax foodwrap plus other reusable and environmentally friendly products, such as bamboo straws and string market bags
Jenni McKenna Succulents
Cacti and Succulents
Eco Enviro Concepts
Biodegradable products for growing and germinating plants made from disposable coffee cups e.g. pots, punnets and germination cubes
ShortHive Honey
Local Beekeepers offering honey infused with different ingredients and flavours
Martine's Jewellery
Local jewellery maker
Food
Sifted Coffee and Cake
The Best Coffee and cakes!
Lil's Yummy Poffertjes
Line up for this delicious Dutch treat! Yum!
Buninyong Mt Helen Lions Club featuring Farmgate Shop sausages
Sausage Sizzle featuring Elaine Farmgate sausages
Luigi's Gelato
Ice-cream and drinks
East India Trading
Lovely indian food including vegetarian options
Fun
Buninyong PS Children's Tent
Childrens activities with Buninyong PS including planting
Buninyong PS Solar Boats and Energy Breakthrough bikes
Watch the solar boats and the solar bike built by the students!
Face Painting with Tania - Lady Bug 11am - 2pm

Furals Totally Treehouse children's workshop
In this workshop you are going to design and build your very own wooden treehouse.You will be given a variety of natural and recycled materials to transform with your imagination. Anything is possible – solar powered roller coasters, clockwork time machines, multi-headed giant chickens. Do you want a triple spiral staircase or a bottomless sandpit? If you can dream it, build away!
Music
Geoff Hassell and co will entertain us over lunch
Can Do Community Hall
BREAZE community
Ballarat's Sustainability Group
Buninyong Boomerang Bags
Shopping bags - home made, free for you
Buninyong Community Collective
Community Collective - wholefoods
Ballarat Repair Cafe
Ballarat Repair Cafe - demonstrating repairs
Carbon Neutral Buninyong
Information about a Local initiative between several groups growing momentum for a carbon neutral Buninyong
Community Groups
Australian Electric Vehicle Association
Electric vehicle enthusiasts
Leigh Catchment Group
Local Landcare Network
Ballarat Permaculture Guild
Your local Permaculture group.
Gardens for Wildlife
Promotes the planting and maintenance of wildlife friendly gardens
No Waste Ballarat
Sharing information and showing people alternative products that can be used
Australasian Straw Bale Association
Straw bale - see more at the SO'R Construction site - www.ausbale.org
Friends of Canadian Corridor
Urban Landcare group
Ballarat Regional Beekeepers
Public demonstration of beekeeping using demonstration hive, information, honey sampling, teaching using display hive, distribution of brochures and ‘ask a beekeeper’ sessions
Bush Pixies Landcare Group
Urban Landcare group for young people
Friends of Buninyong Botanic Gardens
Local group with plants for sale
Ballaarat Astronomical Society and International Dark-Sky Association Victoria
Environmental Information including how light at night affects all life forms
Sharewaste
Static display - community initiative that connects people who wish to recycle their kitchen scraps