Farming the Sun wins Growing Community Energy grant

by | 18 Mar 2015 | Energy, Starfish

Starfish’s Farming the Sun initiative is one of six community energy projects in northern NSW who have been awarded grants by the NSW government. State-wide, there were 19 projects which shared $846,000 in the latest round of funding to help advance local renewable...

Is your diet eating up the climate?

by | 18 Mar 2015 | Local Food, Starfish

A new UK study measures and compares the dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat- and fish-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans. The journal Climatic Change published the first-ever study which compares the dietary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of real-life meat-eaters...

Radical land regeneration

by | 18 Mar 2015 | Starfish

The origins of the word ‘radical’ come from the Latin ‘radox’, which means to get to the root of things. Sustainability requires radicalism, in its true meaning, to ensure that the way we live and go about living is indeed regenerative and renewable over time. David...

New web site ‘Faces from the Gasfields’

by | 18 Mar 2015 | AACSGaM, SLAM

Faces from the Gasfields includes Pat Schultz’s story of civil disobedience also published on our site last year. From the site: These are the stories of ordinary Australians whose way of life is under threat as a $200 billion industry lands in their backyards....

Frackman the movie – two extra Armidale shows

by | 11 Mar 2015 | AACSGaM, Event

After a sell out premiere last week, Armidale Belgrave Cinema is putting on 2 extra screenings. Frackman tells the story of accidental activist Dayne Pratzky and his struggle against international gas companies. Australia will soon become the world’s biggest gas...

Transition Network Conference 2015: Tickets on sale April

by | 11 Mar 2015 | Event

We are delighted to announce that after a couple of years with no Transition Network conference, it’s back, and it’s going to be a remarkable couple of days. It will take place at the wonderful Seale Hayne, close to Totnes in Devon, where we held the 2010 conference...

Largest protected arid land zone on Earth

by | 11 Mar 2015 | Starfish

The Pintubi traditional owners have helped to create the largest protected zone of arid land on earth, by declaring 4.2 million hectares of their land an Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) under the Kiwirrkurra IPA. “A lot of people think the desert is empty,” said...