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Alec Roberts
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PMP Project Manager, Renewable Energy #CommunityEnergy #ActiveTransport advocate Chair of CLEANaS http://bit.ly/CLEANaS Profile picture: Colour photo of Alec Roberts, headshot. Header: Photo of Zenith Beach, Port Stephens, NSW Australia
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The lastest CLEANaS newsletter Clean Sweep is out! Volunteers are needed for the Sounds of Sustainability Festival and the Rathmines Repair Cafe & Community Event. Find out about the new Solar Neighbourhoods program with discounted rooftop solar and home battery systems.
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Find out about the latest joint initiative between Lake Mac, City of Newcastle and Maitland Council: Solar Neighbourhoods - Battery and/or Solar bulk-buy. There's also interesting podcasts, feedback requests, targeted surveys, and award recommendations.
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The festival season continues with Sounds of Sustainability Festival at Valentine, Sustainable Future Festival at The Entrance, and the Sustainable Living Festival at Medowie. Citizen science activities include Aussie Bird Count and Australian Pollinator Count. 2/3
enviroBYTES - the latest #environmental and #STEM news for the Hunter Region is out. With over 100 events listed in October and November pick something that takes your interest.
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, and large-scale solar added another 15% - meaning Australia’s largest grid was 69% solar powered and overall 75% Renewable Energy. Please note that nearly 17% of Utility Solar was being curtailed at the time (Coal can't turn off easily).
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Rooftop Solar Energy record broken (only 2 days after previous record broken). At 12:30pm today (18 Oct) on the Australian National electricity market the amount of rooftop solar alone made up 54% of power in the grid #solarpower
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Cute sugar bag native bee visiting my Spring Onion flower heads (and then flying into the kitchen by mistake)
Renewables overtake coal for first time on monthly basis in September in Australia’s main grid #renewableenergy #coal
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Of course, it is bigger and better than last year! We are expecting over 3000 kids and their families to come through the doors between 10am and 2pm. Hoping to break the attendance record for the Museum.

Science comes alive at Newcastle Museum
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Science comes alive at Newcastle Museum
Hosted by the Hunter Innovation and Science Hub (HISH), this free, family-friendly event for National Science Week is on Sunday 17 August.
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Find out about Indigenous STEM, Walkable neighbourhoods, and EV charging infrastructure. There's also new opportunities with citizen science, grants, targeted surveys, paid internships, and energy programs, guides, toolkits, and research trails. Big month! mailchi.mp/3a2801abfb97... 2/2
National Science Week, Hunter Science Festival 🔬, Indigenous STEM
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The latest STEM and environmental news and information newsletter for the Hunter region enviroBYTES is out. This month brings National Science Week with 20+ events including our own Hunter Science Festival. This is on top of 40 other events this month. #scienceweek @inspiringnsw.bsky.social 1/2
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Australian governments are meant to represent the interests of Australians, not multinational gas corporations.

Australians are tired of rampant gas exports driving up their power bills.

✍️ Add your name to the call to fix Australia's gas export problem!
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Events include talks on High Speed Rail, Quantum Physics, and a Climate Fresk Summit. There's also interesting podcasts, targeted surveys and feedback requests to participate in, and opportunities of grants, competitions and awards to be aware of.
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The latest enviroBYTES is out, your local STEM and environmental newsletter for the Hunter area. Find out about a secret population of koalas.
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#Hunter #STEM
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The work we have done aims to constructively inform policy development at the intersection of biodiversity conservation and renewable energy; two areas inherently linked.” - Lead author Dr Mark Miller, Research Fellow in the Monash School of Biological Sciences
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