Creating a web of green

The Southside Sustainability Centre is being developed as an educational, community-based centre for interactive, environmental learning. It aims to inspire through hands-on activities, empowering people to ask "what can I do for the environment?"

What you'll find at the Centre:
  Nursery
  Community Gardens, including poultry, and fruit and vegetable gardens
  Bush tucker gardens
  Native revegetation areas
  Water recycling and water efficiency demonstrations
  Photovoltaic cells - educating for a renewable energy future
  Artwork for environmental awareness

Projects in development:
  Sensory Garden
  Native grassland display
  Water-sensitive landscape design & water solutions
  Landscape mapping & design of the centre

Plans for the future:
The centre is continually developing, and there are still many activities and projects planned for the future. These include:
  Nature adventure trail
  Native ecosystem and habitat building displays
  Sustainable housing display
  Regular workshops and children's activities
 

As a community-driven centre, it is open to people from all walks of life. There are many volunteering opportunities from office-based work to shoveling compost - if you are interested in taking part in developing this centre, or would like to support it in any other way, please contact us or look at our volunteering page for further details.

Opening Hours
8am - 2pm Tuesday
8am - midday Friday
9am - midday, first Saturday of each month -

If you are interested in purchasing plants from our on-site nursery, we are open other times by appointment only.

You can find the centre at the corner of Wright Street & Old Cleveland Road, Carindale:

What you can find at the Sustainability Centre

Supporters and sponsors of the Southside Sustainability Centre

B4C is a not-for-profit organisation, and projects such as the Sustainability Centre could not happen without the generous support of organisations and businesses. Current sponsors and supporters include: Powerlink, Caltex, Holden, Toshiba, Landcare Australia, Signature Brisbane, Queensland Government (Low Carbon Diet), Queensland Country Credit Union, and the John Christopher Pascoe Memorial Charitable Trust, managed by Perpetual. For more information on how they are supporting the centre, please visit our sponsors and grants section.