Just moved to Armidale? Welcome

The Armidale Business Chamber  is hosting Armidale’s first ever Welcome to Armidale event for new residents on May 1st 5.30 – 6.30pm. “The event will give people a chance to make new contacts and start building the friendships that make a new town...

Community ‘ownership’ of windfarms is the future

With 4,000 direct jobs in rural NSW and over $6billion in investment in the pipeline you would expect politicians on the Southern Tablelands to be supporting jobs in the renewable energy industry. This industry has become one of the major employers in this region....

Latest IPCC Report Shows Way Forward

More than 700 climate scientists and other experts from more than 70 countries spent five years preparing the latest IPCC report (the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).  Their message – climate change is already happening and there are big risks and...

Mayor Arno coming down under for Community Energy Congress

Mayor Arno Zengerle of Wildpoldsried, one of Germany’s most reknowned Energy Towns, is confirmed for the Community Energy Congress in Canberra (16 – 17 June). Arno Zengerle is the Mayor of Wildpoldsried, one of Germany’s leading renewable energy villages...

It’s time we started selling sustainability

A woman walks toward a well through clouds of dust raised by cattle in the wadi outside Louri village in the Mao region of Chad. For generations, the people of this bone-dry region lived off their herds, but climate change has meant that the normally once-a-decade...

Bellingen Workshop: Economically Happy!

NEW!  Film showing of “The Economics of Happiness” Thursday, 10 April from 7:00-9:00 pm at the Bellingen Youth Hub. Entry by donation. Helena Norberg-Hodge will be there to introduce the film. For anyone who missed the showing in February or wants to see...