Sustainable House Day is built in collaboration with the community, enabling the opportunity for the peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

It provides the opportunity to explore some of Australia’s most inspiring homes, and learn from the people who designed them, built them, and live in them.

Are you tired of rising fuel costs? Ready to make the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), but not sure where to begin? This event is your gateway to the exciting world of electric mobility!

As part of ongoing work to support communities rebuilding after bushfire, Renew is showcasing homes that exemplify resilient design elements and building practices that extend the understanding of best practice beyond the complicated and variable (BAL) Bushfire Attack Level rating system.

Running monthly throughout the year, Green Adelaide’s has a range of courses and events to help you learn new nature skills, meet like-minded people and have a lot of fun!

Join Professor John Boland and learn how to integrate your home and garden to create an energy efficient house. This talk will look at easy to implement solutions so you can turn your own home (no matter its age) into a comfortable, energy efficient house under both present and future climate conditions. Go beyond the home energy rating scheme and learn how to make the most of nature to grow your own home cooling system, create air flow and save water.

Join Associate Professor James Hopeward to consider a solution to climate change that takes inspiration from around the world. Is the move from fossil fuels a simple matter of investing in more renewables or is a deeper change needed that means altering our way of life? In this talk Professor Hopeward will explore the supply and demand of our natural resources and the concept of limits to growth. He will share realistic, evidence-based solutions to these challenging and complex problems.

Are you interested in a Sustainable Lifestyle?

This event has amazing speakers who will present topics on how to make sustainability and energy efficiency a part of your home design or improvements.

As well consider how improving the environment you live in can support better physical and mental health.

What would Australia look like by 2030 if we simply listened to the needs of its people?

Join the City of Unley’s Living Young Reference Group, alongside the Environment and Sustainability team, for a special community screening of Regenerating Australia – the latest film from Damon Gameau, the award-winning director of 2040 and That Sugar Film.

Sustainable House Day provides the opportunity to explore some of Australia’s most unique and inspiring homes, and learn from the people who designed them, built them, and live in them.

In this FREE session, Green Adelaide's Senior Water Projects Officer will talk about the importance of healthy waterways, how to identify problems, what to plant and what to pull out, and what your responsibilities are as a property owner.

What does climate change mean for South Australia, and why are we at the forefront of global solutions?

Are you considering future upgrades and improvements to strata? Want to make a positive contribution to the bottom line and be part of the solution to some of the world’s biggest challenges?

This event is a one-stop-shop for everyone interested in making their homes a safe, comfortable, and energy efficient haven!

At the Prospect showcase, hosted by Adelaide Sustainability Building Network and the City of Prospect, you will hear from:

Mary Jane McArdle - McArdle Projects

Brett Aylen - Brett Aylen Architecture

Hosted by AdaptWest, learn how you can AdaptNow to a changing climate and create a more resilient community.

When a chain of events occur, like weeks of extreme heat, with power failures and bushfire smoke impacting the metro area and storms that bring localised flooding, how would you and your community respond?

At the Burnside showcase, hosted by Adelaide Sustainable Building Network and made possible by the generous support of City of Burnside, you will hear from:

Mark Thomas - Goodhouse Architecture

Martin Freney - Earthship Eco Homes

Searching for the ideal trees for your garden but don’t know where to start?

Join Chris Day from Every Day Sustainable Living, as he takes you through different options for trees in small to medium gardens.

Work with nature to create a cooler, greener, climate ready home

Learn ways to capture rainwater to reuse inside and outside of your home. Discover how to work with nature to create green and cool homes that support biodiversity and protect our waterways and oceans.

Imagine a future Adelaide that is loved even more.

Ask anyone what they love about Adelaide. You’ll hear a lot about the clean coast, majestic gum trees, blue sky, rolling hills and cheeky critters that live here.

But like everywhere, Adelaide’s nature is under pressure. We can all do something about this. Many of us already are.

We’ll unpack our vision for a cooler, greener, wilder and climate-resilient Adelaide.

Join Green Adelaide Nature Education team for a live Q&A session to ask in-depth questions about designing and building your wildlife friendly garden.

Learn a range of practical solutions to cost effectively maximise rainwater harvesting and reuse in your home and integrate stormwater and greywater into your garden to reap rewards such as water conservation, local flood mitigation, improve stormwater runoff quality and landscape benefits.

Gardening is a favourite pastime for many people and a great way to stay active and healthy. Join Angela Zerella, a physiotherapist from The Physio Clinic Marryatville, to learn how to avoid injury in the garden. Whether you’re digging, mulching, fertilising, pruning or planting in your garden, Angela has advice for you.

Guided tour of the St Peters Billabong, a wetland and a haven for native wildlife and is recognised as an urban biodiversity 'hotspot' on the Adelaide Plains as well as a beautiful place to visit.