National Sustainable Living Festival Themes 2021

by | 27 Oct 2020 | SLAM

Now calling all change-makers, presenters, artists, performers, and creatives! To help accelerate our collective action in this crucial moment, NSLF encourages event applicants to respond to the following 2021 Festival themes. What do we really want to sustain? How do...

Aussie Backyard Bird Count

by | 20 Oct 2020 | Habitat, SLAM

BirdLife Australia brings you the Aussie Backyard Bird Count, one of Australia’s biggest citizen science events! National Bird Week 2020 will take place between Monday 19 October and Sunday 25 October. Celebrate National Bird Week by taking part in the Aussie...

Patsy’s submission to local strategic planning statement

by | 25 Sep 2020 | SLAM

  Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Armidale Regional Council’s draft Local Strategic Planning Statement. I think this plan needs significant revision because it appears to have been written based on earlier circumstances and documents. It does not...

Climate Matters: 5 Lessons from the Drought

by | 29 Jun 2020 | SLAM

The Bird Bath — The hot dry weather over 2014 and now 2018 made the value of a birdbath very obvious. Species of birds that have not visited before became regular visitors during the drought. One morning an Olive Oriole and an Eastern Shriketit joined the 15 or so...

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...

Together While Apart: Webinar Video, Q&A And Resources

by | 2 Apr 2020 | SLAM

How on sweet Earth do we practice and cultivate ecological ethics, connected diversity, community building and social cohesion, when we can’t come together face to face? It was incredible to have 100 people cram into a virtual room together to discuss this – and...