Mornington Environment Association Inc. (MEA)
Clean Up Australia Day is coming! Yes, it’s back on again, your chance to put in a few hours helping to clean up the rubbish in our environment. To do a really good job, we need lots of volunteers, young and old, especially families (although young…
From The Seedling Grant 23/1/25)… The Seedling Bank grant applications are open The Seedling Bank grant applications are now open to schools and community groups around Australia, closing Saturday 1 March, 2025. We support projects big and small. There is no upper limit to…
From ABC News (23/1/25)… (I think I might have posted this before, but I always need to refresh my memory on recycling plastic, so it might help you too.) Plastic recycling is a minefield. Here’s why it’s so difficult and how we can make it…
From Save Our Seat (12/1/25)… January 2025 Newsletter from Save our Seat Firstly THANK YOU for all of your support and sharing of SoS and community concerns. The feedback is, ‘people are deeply concerned about the ASE proposal and the plethora of impacts’.January ’25 newsletter…
Thanks very much Peninsula Grammar, great work ! For the last two years staff from Peninsula Grammar have committed a full morning to work on Red Bluff at Mills Beach as part of their annual community service day near the end of the school year.…
From Clean Up Australia (11/12/24)… Our BIGGEST EVER Clean Up ever! As we approach the end of the year, we’re getting excited and gearing up to hosting our BIGGEST EVER Clean Up on Sunday 2nd March 2025 as part of celebrating 35 years of…
From SCIENCE ADVISER (10/12/24)… Overfishing has cut shark and ray populations in half over the past 50 years Thanks to Hollywood blockbusters like Jaws, sharks have earned a reputation as fearsome, man-eating predators. In real life, however, we humans pose a far greater threat…
From South East Water (2/12/24)… Sewer spill into Tanti Creek We’ve had a sewer spill at 26 John Rowell Lane, Mornington this afternoon (Monday 2 December) with overflow into a stormwater drain leading towards Tanti Creek and Mills Beach, Mornington. A blocked sewer pipe…
From The Conversation (18/11/24)… As Australia privatises nature repair, the cheapest approach won’t save our threatened species Australia is a world-leader in species extinction and environmental decline. So great is the problem, the federal government now wants to harness money from the private sectorto pay…
In our November working bee we focused on Red Bluff, inspected new developments and hand weeded around significant flora, liberating weeping grass (Microlaena stipoides) and Kneed Wallaby-grass (Rytidosperma geniculatum). The weeds targeted were: Vulpia bromoides (Squirrel-tail Fescue), Briza maxima (Large Quaking-grass), Ehrharta erecta (Panic Veldt-grass),…