Wildlife Habitat Group meeting this Saturday

by | 11 Oct 2019 | Event, Habitat | 1 comment

The next meeting of the Wildlife Habitat Group of SLA will be held on Saturday 12 October at 2pm at Angophora Bushland Reserve (entrance in Burgess St, opp. Stace Street, South Hill Armidale) Hopefully the temperature will only be in the high teens but hats and water...

New England Rail Trail Crowdfunding Campaign

by | 11 Oct 2019 | SLAM | 2 comments

Community organisation New England Rail Trail Inc. (NERTinc) was established to develop the New England Rail Trail and have launched a Crowdfunding Campaign to develop a business plan at Chuffed.org. Their dream is to use the long abandoned Old Great Northern Rail...

National Sustainable Living Festival – Applications 2020

by | 11 Oct 2019 | Event

Building Australia’s response to the climate emergency. Applications Now Open | New Feature Climate Program Australia is beginning to declare a Climate Emergency and now it’s time to shape and define the emergency response we want to see. The movement to...

Climate Matters: Pilliga Leard Tag–Along Tours

by | 10 Oct 2019 | AACSGaM, Stop Adani

The Pilliga / Leard Tag-along tour is a not for profit tour. It is an activist tour aiming to educate and highlight the dire impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining in our country. It is tour that contrasts the beauty of the Pilliga with the visable impacts of mining...

Climate matters: Dung Beetles

by | 10 Oct 2019 | Climate

According to the 2013 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming caused by increasing atmospheric greenhouse gasses poses a serious threat to global food and regional water supplies and biodiversity, and threatens the life support systems of hundreds...

Community Organising Fellowships 2020

by | 8 Aug 2019 | SLAM

Here’s a great opportunity for serious activists and campaigners. SLA is considering full financial support for a successful local applicant. The Community Organising Fellowship is an exciting initiative that equips community leaders and non-government organisations’...

Free Tours of Council Facilities

by | 7 Aug 2019 | Event, SLAM

The Armidale Regional Council has organised a series of tours of several of their facilities. From Tuesday 13 August until Saturday 17 August free tours will be conducted at the Armidale, Armidale Wastewater Treatment Plant, Armidale Waste Management Facility, Water...

Taking Sustainability into our own hands

by | 22 Jul 2019 | Event, SLAM, Starfish, ZNET

URALLA SUSTAINABILITY EXPO To support people to take their own actions towards sustainability, Z-NET Uralla is holding a hands-on Sustainability Expo on 3 August 2019, in partnership with Uralla Shire Council, as a Local Government Week event. Working together, there...

July Forum: Aussie St follow-up

by | 3 Jul 2019 | Event, Monthly Forum

David Holmgren presented Aussie Street, Town Hall, last Saturday — a fictional account of a typical street in Australia from the 1950s depression to the near future, interestingly another depression of the 2020s. Through David’s permaculture vision for suburbia we...