VIDEO: Thinking of keeping bees?

by | 15 May 2020 | Event, Local Food

Calla Teseling {mobile prefix oh for}00030986 is a bee expert. I caught up with him at the Community Garden during 2020 Home Grown Garden Tour in February asked what are the considerations for people thinking about setting up a bee hive. Here’s what he had to...

Let’s come together on May 15 #buildabetterfuture

by | 4 May 2020 | Climate, Event

A few months ago, no one could have imagined that schools all over the country would be empty because of a virus. A few weeks ago it looked like everyone would be home from school for the next few months. And now after students have spent weeks trying to learn at...

PUBLIC FEEDBACK: Let’s end single use plastics in NSW

by | 4 May 2020 | Event, Waste

Plastic waste is polluting our waterways and oceans at an alarming rate, creating a looming health and environmental crisis. NSW generates 800,000 tonnes of plastic waste each year, equivalent to the weight of 45,000 school buses. At this rate, plastics will soon...

CLIMATE MATTERS: Save Armidale’s Koalas

by | 4 May 2020 | Climate, Habitat

With a decrease of 90% in the koala population west of the divide, caring for koalas in the high country has become critical. On current trends, if no action is taken, the entire koala population of NSW may be extinct by 2050. Koalas are now listed as a vulnerable...

A dilemma during a forest conflict in North-West Tasmania

by | 4 May 2020 | Habitat

It was the moment we had been dreading – a letter in the mail-box from Sustainable Timber Tasmania (STT) to say that they were intending to log the ‘coupe’ (aka native regrowth forest) next to the Live Well Tasmania property we are planning to use to develop models...

Mall to open to traffic?

by | 18 Apr 2020 | Event, SLAM | 1 comment

Locals who turned out in their hundreds in November 2017 to protest at the proposal to open the Central Mall to traffic, will be interested to see on page 216 of next week’s Council agenda, a proposal from Council’s Traffic Advisory Committee, which was carried...

Narrabri Gas Webinar (RSVP now to avoid missing out)

by | 2 Apr 2020 | AACSGaM, Event

North West NSW farmers need your help! The most protested project in the history of NSW’s planning system – the Narrabri CSG project – is about to be referred to the Independent Planning Commission for a decision. We might be in the middle of a pandemic,...