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...

SLA 2019 AGM

by | 3 Jul 2019 | Event, Meeting Minutes

The AGM will be held before the July forum with office bearers elected and Convenors of Action Groups endorsed. A brief year in review by Action Group convenors and vision for the future year will be presented by the current convenor Mahalath Halperin. The AGM will...

How do you Choose Products at the Grocery Store?

by | 3 Jul 2019 | SLAM

Would you like to participate in a University of New England study? Understanding Factors that Influence Sustainable Palm Oil-Related Purchasing Behaviour This research aims to explore what factors might influence people to purchase or not purchase products containing...

Transition Streets Australia

by | 3 Jul 2019 | SLAM

Transition Streets is a project of the worldwide Transition movement. The idea is to find like-minded others within easy walking distance to start a Transition Streets group. Typically a group will meet monthly to work through the seven chapters of the workbook to...