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- Lighting Knox with green energy
We’re transitioning to 100% renewable energy to power our street lights, in an effort to tackle climate change.
From 1 July 2021, our street lights which make up half of Council’s electricity use, will be powered by wind energy for the next 9 years.
In 2020, Knox Council along with 12 Victorian Councils and 1 State Government Authority signed a Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA) to purchase 100% renewable energy from a wind farm in Gippsland.
In addition to supporting renewable energy projects, the long-term Agreement provides price certainty and eliminates price volatility.
This green energy transition builds on the street light energy efficiency works we have undertaken to drastically reduce our impact on the planet.
Since 2016, we’ve replaced 10,600 street lights with energy-efficient LED globes to reduce energy use by over 75% to lower electricity and maintenance costs.
We are now investigating LED replacement for street lights on our major roads to explore further energy and greenhouse emissions savings.
Share your feedback on tackling climate change together
We are committed to taking urgent action on climate change and have outlined a Climate Response Plan to reach net zero emissions for Council and our community.
The Plan identifies a broad range of mitigation and adaptation actions for our community now, and in the future.
Initiatives include helping transitioning our community to electric vehicles, and further support renewable energy solutions such as investigating options for a landfill solar farm.
We are currently seeking your ideas and feedback on the Climate Response Plan by 27 June.
Tell us how we can support you in tackling climate change, and preserve what we know and love about Knox.
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Events, activities and festivals
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- A Very Aussie Christmas
- Brass Monkeys – School Holiday Feature Show
- Celtic Reflections Australia
- Come N Try Carers Exercise Class
- Crucial COVID conversations for businesses
- Help create an important piece of art
- Holding a community event
- Introduction to Mindfulness for Carers
- Jewellery making
- Jugg Life School Holiday Feature Show
- Money information for women - superannuation and insurance
- Money information for women – avoiding scams
- Money information for women – budgets and bills
- Money information for women – managing debt
- Money information for women – planning your future
- Movie day – Senior Movement
- Online Event: "Always a Work in Progress"
- Pavarotti — King of the High Cs Featuring David Rogers Smith
- Protecting your rights as you get older (online)
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Swinging on a Star – The Songs of Frank Sinatra and the ‘Golden Rat Pack’ Era
- The Amazing Travelling Comedy Tour
- The Beatles Show Presented by Rubber Soul
- The Songs of Judy Garland
- Tusk – The Storybook Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
- Virtual Carols by Candlelight
- Have Your Say
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News
- A facelift for some of our outdoor artworks
- Allergen training for food businesses
- Art installations at Stamford Park (and win a picnic!)
- Biodiversity Month
- Carols by Candlelight program announced
- Carols goes online
- Christmas and New Year's opening hours
- City Nature Challenge 2022
- Cr Susan Laukens elected Knox Mayor
- Feeling the pinch because of COVID?
- Fire Danger Period begins Monday 10 January
- Free money information sessions for women
- Get fed and vaccinated at the same time
- Good Food Good Mood
- Help create an important piece of art
- Help us tackle graffiti
- How are you...really?
- Knox Festival Twilight Program
- Knox Festival returns for 2022
- Last chance to nominate an everyday hero
- Learn about composting
- Learn how to get older without getting 'old'
- Look out for art in unexpected places!
- Lower your carbon footprint and reduce energy bills
- Mental health webinars for different groups in Knox
- New home for outdoor dining pod
- Only 4 weeks left to nominate a local hero
- Protecting our green areas and significant spaces
- Recycling right for National Recycling Week
- Revitalising Boronia
- Shout out for young voices
- Supporting carers in Knox
- Supporting our tradies
- Understanding controlling behaviour in relationships
- Working to reduce gambling harm
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Arts in Knox
- Community Art Projects
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Immerse
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Artists and Installations
- Carla O'Brien – I AM HERE
- Carolyn Menzies – Carbon Cocoonery
- Clara Chan – Posthuman Convergence
- Fausto Gallego – Moving Forward
- Giordano Biondi – The Folds
- Gretel Taylor – Restless
- Hayden Dewar – Shelter
- Hsin Lin – Blossoms of Life
- Jack Tar & Co. – Atmosphere Absolute
- LUCIANO – Spinning Yarns
- Lynn Berry – Winter Garden
- Marc Savoia – Nothing Between Us
- Marc Savoia – Wunderkammer
- Marshall Arts Club - Glitch Garden
- Mikaela Stafford – SmokeScreen
- Molly Stephenson – Spaces of reflection between parts
- Natalie Wijeyeratne – Flagship I and Flagship II
- Nicholas Barker and Jessica Tanto – Please Take One
- Rebecca George – R > 1 Covid 19
- Rebecca Westlund – Acts of Hope
- Sara Catena – Shrine of the Sacred Self
- Simone Melville – Eden
- Simone Thomson – Wala Yapaneyeput, Water Together
- Sonia Zymantas – Involuntary Memories
- Soyoun Kim – ID Photo Poster
- Susannah Langley and Farnaz Dadfar with Warren Armstrong – VOID-ATRIUM
- Toshi Handa – Monument of Respect
- Wendy Yu – Acts of Holding Dance
- Wesley Dowling – Network
- Immerse 2021 highlights
- Knox art collection
- Public Art in Knox
- Major projects and initiatives
- Community groups and volunteering
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Event Calendar
- Advanced Care Planning – Upper Ferntree Gully
- Allergen training for food businesses webinar
- Armchair travel stories – Tasmania
- Backyard wildlife habitat box webinar
- Bayswater Christmas Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bright Ideas Network meeting
- Bright Ideas Network meeting
- Building Aboriginal cultural competency workshop
- Child Safe: Overview of the National Principles
- Committee Succession Planning: Attracting the Right Volunteers
- Community Events: Make It Happen!
- Dealing with feelings: for parents and caregivers of teenagers
- Disability Awareness and Engagement: Making your group or club more accessible
- Emerging and revisioning with a plan (workshop)
- Escape from Trash Mountain
- Fever -The Songs of Peggy Lee
- Game Boys Cinematic Universe
- Grant writing workshop
- Green cleaning workshop
- Guided bird watching
- Guided frog watching
- Guided fungi walk
- Gully Gardeners: Keeping Chickens with Ella from Chooktopia
- Habitat boxes for suburban wildlife workshop
- Hard to Reach Places by Anna Lumb
- Healthy Lunchboxes - A workshop for kids and parents
- Healthy Lunchboxes - A workshop for kids and parents
- Healthy Lunchboxes - A workshop for kids and parents
- Insect discovery walk
- Introduction to Mindfulness - short course
- It Might As Well Be Spring
- It's Time - The Australian Michael Bublé Show
- Keeping Chickens Workshop
- Love your clothes workshop
- Mindfulness and compassion
- Mindfulness and the body
- Mindfulness and the senses
- National Sorry Day ceremony
- Pension information session
- Pot-Pourri Presents Christmas on Broadway
- Preparing your garden for a bumper Spring harvest
- Reducing food waste workshop
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Songs and stories by Kutcha Edwards
- Soup and Singing
- Sustainable scrumptious snacks
- Sustainable scrumptious snacks
- Sustainable scrumptious snacks
- Swinging on a Star with Kane Alexander
- The Alphabet of Awesome Science
- Tie Dye Workshop (school holiday workshop)
- Too Peas in a Podcast - Carers Event
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