World transition network

by | 1 Mar 2011 | SLAM

February Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition The second official Transition initiative in Canada has unleashed with a Resilience Community Festival, Putney is holding a talk about the reskilling that’s necessary to make health care systems more...

Another good reason for Renewable Energy

by | 22 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM

The Gas Rush, the Four Corners program presented by Kerry O’Brien on Monday 21 February, is another frightening indictment of the rapidly expanding gas mining industry in Australia. A coalition is forming to call a halt to the ‘gas rush’. You can...

3rd Annual Home-grown Garden Tour

by | 20 Feb 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM

Whatever you do, don’t miss ALF’s 3rd Home-grown Garden Tour on the first weekend in March. This is a great opportunity to see 10 productive backyard gardens in Armidale and gather heaps of good ideas and useful info about compost, bees, worm farms, fruit...

Urban Rivercare Working Bee: Sun 13 Feb

by | 9 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM

The AURG is undertaking a maintenance day at the Rologas Playing Fields (the old Wicklow area!) and surrounding area plantings (Holmes Ave and Douglas St). This will involve weeding in and around plants and repairing stakes and cartons as required. We chose this area...

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...

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...