As a volunteer run organisation, Healesville CoRE depends on financial support from its membership base to continue operating. If you were a financial member in the 2019-2020 financial year, THANK YOU!!! We could not do the work we are doing without your loyalty and support. … Read More »Become a H’CoRE financial member for 2020-2021!
Those of you who read our newsletter regularly will know that in May, just prior to the last Federal Election, our local MP for Casey, Tony Smith MHR, pledged Healesville CoRE $90,000 for three local solar energy projects. We copped some flack at the time… Read More »$90,000 funding from Federal Government for solar infrastructure in Healesville now in progress!
Many in our community were very upset at losing our community tip and having to drive to Coldstream to dump our household rubbish. But Council has now sponsored a feasibility study into the possibility of making constructive use of the old tip site by building… Read More »Is a significant solar farm getting closer for Healesville on our old tip site?
Getting Healesville CoRE on the radar with Sustainability Victoria and connecting with other community renewable energy groups in Victoria. Meeting between Sustainability Victoria, YR Council, and H’CoRE on Monday 23 September 2019 Very positive feedback to Healesville CoRE from Sustainability Victoria and from the YR… Read More »Getting Healesville CoRE on the radar with Sustainability Victoria
Great success for our solar energy event with Glen Morris at his Lab at Moora Moora on 14 September 2019. On Saturday, 14 September, Healesville CoRE held an information and solar equipment ‘show and tell’ event at Moora Moora Co-op on Mount Toolebewong at the… Read More »Great success for our solar energy event with Glen Morris
Photo by Michael Nardella We are very excited to bring you the great news that on Tuesday, 10 September 2019, the Yarra Ranges Council voted 5 votes to 3 to declare a Climate Emergency. The public gallery was overflowing with supporters of the motion, including… Read More »Yarra Ranges Council declares a Climate Emergency!!
Download a copy of our Annual Report for 2018 -2019 financial year in PDF format here.
We are very excited to announce that we applied to the Commonwealth Government for a grant to train volunteers to be able to offer free home energy efficiency audits for interested community members. The grant will pay for the training consultant and for provision of… Read More »Healesville CoRE to Train Volunteers to Provide Free Home Energy Efficiency Audits for Interested Community Members!
Yarra Ranges Council has embarked on a feasibility study to see if it is viable to develop some solar farms on old tip sites in the municipality, including Healesville. Council is very keen to ascertain how much interest there is from community groups in being… Read More »Yarra Ranges Council Feasibility Study on Building Solar Farms in Healesville and Surrounding areas.
It’s hard to believe another year has passed and we have our 2019 AGM coming up very soon. This year we have invited Dr Peter Cock, a former lecturer in Environmental Science at Monash University and founder of the Moora Moora Cooperative Community, to talk… Read More »Healesville CoRE AGM on Sunday 25 August from 2.30 to 4.30pm!