AURG Tree Planting Day Sunday 11 May at Elizabeth Park

The AURG is holding a tree planting day in Elizabeth Park on Sunday 11 May. We have two small sites in the north west corner of Elizabeth Park 1 (straight north of the toilet block) and can do some fill in plantings on a previous planting site close by. Entry to the...

Got a spare 10 minutes: Armidale Local Food Project Survey

My name is Woody Jacobson.  I am an intern at Armidale Dumaresq Council working with Carol Davies and the Environmental Sustainability Committee on a project about local food consumption.  We want to find out more about what drives Armidale citizens to purchase local...

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...