Ripe near me

Fulham couple Alistair and Helena Martin have started the website, Ripe Near Me, which connects people with fresh produce growing in local back yards. Alistair Martin writes: One thing I have loved from the time I was small is fruit and veggies picked straight out of...

March In March Armidale – 15th at 2pm at Central Park

A diverse group of local community members is planning a rally for March in March Armidale on Saturday, March 15, at 2pm at Central Park. March in March is a grass-roots movement which seeks to engage Australians across the political spectrum and to give expression to...

Working bee – SLA Autumn Festival

Some of the creative thinking has been done, and we’re up to the hands-on making. The first working bee is on Saturday 1st March from 11am to 1pm, at Bar and Pats’ place. We’ll be plaiting fabric, making weavings, and coming up with words for signs....

Guardian article on CSIRO – great graphics

May I recommend evryone in SLA to look at the article in the Guardian about the CSIRO statement on drought and climate change. Amazing Graphics. This is preliminary information from a publication due out I think in June, showing how different areas of Australia will...

Returning home to regional Australia

More Australians aged 25-44 are moving from cities to regional areas than vice versa. According to the Regional Australia Institute, ‘returners’ make up a significant pattern in internal migration that often fails to be recognised as a positive – and popular – life...

Wake up call

Have you ever felt like we’re living through a nightmare of consumption? That you wish you could un-hook yourself and reconnect with a life that is somehow more real and vivid? Then perhaps you’re ready to heed Earth’s Wake Up Call. Read more at Gaia...

Please sign the Solar Citizens petition

Sharing this petition with as many renewable energy fans as possible! http://www.solarcitizens.org.au/suntax Dear friend, Recently, the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), one of the main organisations in charge of our energy system, flagged the potential to...