Home power savings program: Fri 25 Feb

by | 9 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM

The NSW Government is offering a program to help families reduce their power bills. Armidale Dumaresq Council has organised a presentation  at Kent House on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH from 12:30-2pm. 50 Households will be offered a free home audit, as well as stand-by...

SLA is on FaceBook ~ Expect a friend request

by | 9 Feb 2011 | SLAM

You may have seen the film about FaceBook called The Social Network. Personally I didn’t like it, I thought it was really OTT (over the top). However I do like acronyms, like FB (FaceBook), and I do just like FB period, for keeping abreast of what friends are up...

Wool Expo Luncheon by Slow Food New England

by | 9 Feb 2011 | Event

Slow Food New England will once again be hosting the Sunday lunch at this year’s Wool Expo. This will be a terrific opportunity to celebrate our best local produce and wines, as well as enjoying a fabulous fashion show and other entertainment. Numbers will be...

Email Tony Windsor

by | 7 Feb 2011 | SLAM

GetUp! has launched a campaign to oppose the Federal Government’s intention to cut $250 million from their Solar Flagships program, a program meant to fund large-scale solar power stations in Australia. GetUp!  recommends other savings, for example: $600 million...

Transition Initiatives Survey

by | 31 Jan 2011 | SLAM

Sustainable Living Armidale has had a request from an Energy Management student at the University of Otago in New Zealand who is carrying out a summer research project on Transition Initiatives. She is conducting a short survey of Transition group members, and invites...

Food the focus for our next Tuesday Forum

by | 28 Jan 2011 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM

When it comes to sustainability there’s nothing more critical than food, and our current food system is a lot less resilient than we might suppose. It has led to farmers being driven off their land by low returns and rising costs, soils losing their fertility...

ALF Meeting February 2011

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Venue: Armidale Community Cottage, 3 Alexander St, Armidale New participants are always welcome. Just come along to a meeting, or contact Jo Leoni for further information. We try to keep the meeting as brief as possible and then people can stay and socialise longer if...

ArmLETS Get-together

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, SLAM

ArmLETS is having it’s first get-together next Wednesday afternoon and would love you to come along. Now that we have exceeded 20 members, we thought it would be nice to have a get together. If you are wanting a job done, it’s much easier to ask someone...

Planning our Autumn Festival float

by | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, SLAM

There will be a get together at 5:30 on Friday 4th February at 163 Barney St to plan the SLA float for this year’s Autumn Festival. We have the basics of an idea, so that’s a good start, now all we need is some group creativity to make it work!