Green Living Centre
The Green Living Centre runs workshops and events at the Inner West Sustainability Hub in Summer Hill. Our experienced staff work with the community to offer practical skills and tips to support sustainable living.
We facilitate programs focusing on small space organic food growing, worm farming and composting, energy and water efficiency, food waste avoidance, recycling, natural cleaning, eco-renovation and more. Please contact us for tips and advice on how to live more sustainably and reduce your environmental impact.
Events, workshops and programs are promoted through our Humanitix profile and Council's What's On page. We also host the annual Footprints EcoFestival.
Workshops, webinars and events
The Green Living Centre's free workshop program provides practical skills and knowledge on a broad range of sustainable living topics from installing solar to worm farming. We deliver these as face-to-face workshops and webinars.
If you are a facilitator, speaker or creative who would like to be considered part of our program at the Inner West Green Living Centre at the Inner West Sustainability Hub in Summer Hill, submit an expression of interest form here.
Upcoming workshops:
Looking to cut your power bills and reduce your environmental impact? The Green Living Centre offers a number of practical initiatives for reducing energy usage at home.
Alongside regular workshops and talks around sustainable energy and usage reduction, we also offer a borrowing services of thermal imaging cameras, induction stovetops and energy saving kits.
Discover how small changes can make a big difference - for your wallet and the planet.
Borrow a thermal imaging camera
Thermal imaging cameras use infrared light to help detect areas of heat loss in the home, such as draughts, leaks and poor insulation.
Council has thermal imaging cameras available for residents to borrow at no charge from either the Green Living Centre or via Ashfield, Leichhardt or Stanmore libraries. See catalogue listing.
We'll provide you with instructions on how to use the cameras. They are easy to use, no professional knowledge is required.
Please contact the Green Living Centre on 0481 477 917 or email greenlivingcentre@innerwest.nsw.gov.au to arrange a loan.
Borrow a portable induction cooktop
Gas cooktops contribute to climate change by burning fossil fuels, while induction cooktops use magnetic fields to heat cookware faster and more efficiently. Induction cooktops also use less energy and can boil water in about half the time of gas cooktops.
Council has two portable induction cooktops (a single hob and a double hob) available for residents to borrow, at no charge, from the Green Living Centre. We'll provide you with instructions on how to use them. They are simple to use and no previous experience is required.
To borrow a stove, please contact the Green Living Centre on 0481 477 917 or email: greenlivingcentre@innerwest.nsw.gov.au.
Borrow a power kit to measure your energy use
The Power-Mate is a very useful tool for understanding energy use in your home and will allow you to make more informed decisions about how you can reduce energy consumption, save money off your energy bills and help combat climate change through reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
The Power-Mates can be borrowed free of charge from the Green Living Centre and can be used to monitor the energy consumption of different appliances in your home. The Power-Mate will even estimate the average costs of running the appliance over the year, both in dollar value and in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
Please contact the Green Living Centre on 0481 477 917 or email greenlivingcentre@innerwest.nsw.gov.au to arrange a loan.