March at the Bower

Hello friends, family and curious folk!

Did you spy us on Sydney Weekender with mike Whitney last Saturday? It was a great pleasure to work with a TV crew who were so switched on about the importance of reuse. 

If you've just found us, we hope you'll stop by and visit soon, or add us on facebook, where much of the great 'junk' donations are posted for our fans.

Apart from our TV flutter, we've been pleased to support The City of Sydney Council in their Pop Sydney Sussex lane event, Curb Collective are getting stuck into a new year and our Eco-Library has some great new additions - read on!

Happy New Year from the Marrickville Men's Shed

 2012 is off to a flying start here at The Bower! The Marrickville Men's Shed resumed 2 weeks ago, and it looks like Michael (our facilitator) never stopped! Check out his iphonograph on instructibles.com!!
The Shed meet every Thursday at 10am here at The Bower, and all visitors are welcome

December e-news

An early treat for you all - the December Newsletter for your reading pleasure, before the silly season kicks in and you've no time to think!

We hope you'll try and make this Christmas a reuse affair on all fronts - Those of you in the market for furniture sized christmas presents should be sure to come along to Finders Keepers at Carriageworks this Friday night 6-10 or Saturday 10-5 and pick up a genuine Curb Collective refurbished wonder.

A quick reminder also that we will be closed 24th Dec - 2nd Jan inclusive so hold on to your donations till we get back please!

August Newsletter

July News (Early Bird catches the worms?!)

In a spectacular display of efficiency you ought not to get used to, please find below the JULY NEWSLETTER!

We struggled to make room for pictures we've so much to share - you can find more info scrolling through earlier blog posts below.

May News

April News

Hi All!
This month we're asking you to get involved! Donate, upcycle, email, chat to us in store tell us about your sustainable achievements and goals.
Members, we're asking even more of you - we would love for you to take 5 minutes and answer 10 questions to help us serve you, the community and the environment better. So please click here to complete the member survey- we'll be your best friends...

March News

March, March, March...MARCH!

Oh what big plans we embrace. This month, we're asking you to get involved;

* Add us on facebook and tell us what you love about The Bower.

* Tell someone else what you love about the Bower.

* Sign up to tell everyone about your passion as part of Bowerography - want to know more? 

READ ON!

Feb News

We're still on the hunt for a Customer Liaison. We've enlisted the help of our friends over at Ethicaljobs.com.au - the best place to go if you're looking to work for a meaningful organisation.

 For more about what's going on at The Bower right now, check out our newsletter below.

January Newsletter (of sorts...)

Oh HI!
Welcome to 2011 - Reuse Style.

Sorry you guys have had to do most of the visiting/talking in our relationship of late, we've been caught up in making site improvements, a little spring cleaning and a little re-organisation.
We promise to get back on the proper communication track ASAP, we've just got a few ends to tidy up first, so in the interim, please accept this as our Newsletter for January 2010.

Our fearless chairman is still working hard on improving our timber workshop for future use, with lots of help from staff and volunteers - Thankyou for all your support!

Today we caught up with Rhonda from Flood Light - she and her cohorts have also been super busy organising a Flood Relief Benefit Night to aid and support our friends in Queensland. We've donated a $100 voucher to their prize stash for the big night, to support them in supporting Queensland's recovery from this terrible natural disaster.


All the talk of extreme weather has Claire doing some reading on climate change in the Eco-Library.
Some very accessable books we have in the Eco-Library include:

• "The no-nonsense guide to climate change" by Dinyar Godrej
• "2 Degrees too high: understanding the Copenhagen Conference"  by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
• "Before the deluge: coping with floods in a changing climate"  by the International Rivers Network

Of course these are just a few titles in our collection of Eco-minded titles.
Don't forget to take a closer look upstairs next time you drop by.



And finally a quick note that we will be closed next Wednesday 26th January as we're all off to celebrate Australia Day in our various ways.

Stop by before then to pick up extra preloved goodness to help you celebrate Australia Day too - think chairs, barbecues in need of a little TLC, umbrellas, sporting equipment, picnic paraphenalia and much much more.


See you soon!
-The Bower Team

November News

The November Newsletter is out there in the ether.
Normally we'd post images of it here, but we're experiencing technical difficulties so
Click here to download the PDF.

Go on - click there. It'll change your life!