Black Gully Music Festival 2022
10am SAT NOV 9th

Every year Armidale folk gather at Black Gully (behind NERAM) to celebrate community, music and biodiversity
Armidale Vegetable Sowing Guide
This guide shows planting time periods that should allow you to get a crop in Armidale.
Lightbulb Moments
Take control of your electrical use & costs with this Resource Guide Online PDF and Print PDF for welfare agencies to assist clients, colleagues and community.

Largest protected arid land zone on Earth

The Pintubi traditional owners have helped to create the largest protected zone of arid land on earth, by declaring 4.2 million hectares of their land full article »

Pope Francis’ climate change call to action makes waves

A few months ago Pope Francis urged humanity to have more respect for nature, saying we were custodians of a planet created by God.

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7 ways to get happy, sustainably

It is true that all of us need a basic level of material security. But after that, more stuff does not bring more happiness. The full article »

Top 10 sustainability campaigns of 2014

These are the 10 campaigns that have took 2014 by storm, according to the Guardian.

This Greenpeace campaign targeting the iconic full article »

Position Available at Starfish – Global Project Lead: Sustainable Land Management

A unique opportunity to lead a Global Project and lend your expertise and passion in Sustainable Land Management (SLM)

Global Project Lead Vital SLM full article »

‘Sustainability’ is older than you think

Jeremy L. Caradonna’s new book, “Sustainability: A History,” finds that the notion of sustainability arose from early inklings in full article »

Lismore Community Solarfarm

Lismore City Council has voted in favour of proceeding with the final stage of work on what could become Australia’s very first council-community solarfarm.

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5 trillion pieces of plastic in the world’s oceans ~ which ones are (y)ours?

More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes, are floating in the world’s oceans, causing damage throughout the food chain.

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Achieving a completely zero waste life is possible!

Lauren Singer, a college student from New York, lives a completely no waste life.

Although she was studying Environmental studies, protesting, and was president full article »

Horticulture, health and heavenly food

There are 27,600 edible plants on Earth, mostly vegetables, and most of them are unknown to the majority of people.

We have not yet full article »

Uralla announced as model for Zero Net Energy Town

Uralla Shire Council Mayor, Mr Michael Pearce, today announced Uralla as the model town for the Zero Net Energy Town (ZNET) project. “Uralla is full article »

Could heritage breeds have a vital role for our food security?

In small pockets across Australia you’ll find the breeds we left behind: sheep from the First Fleet, chooks whose genetic lines date back hundreds full article »

North Coast Energy Forum progresses Australia’s first region-wide sustainable energy system

This year’s North Coast Energy Forum was a stand-out as the best yet, with really visible momentum behind their leadership in creating Australia’s first full article »

Announcing the Successful Zero Net Energy Town (Z-NET)

You are invited to attend the official announcement of the successful town and consultants. To create the Blueprint and Business Case for Australia’s first full article »

Bringing home the bacon – with a crowd

Bundarra Berkshires, a free-range pig farm in south-west New South Wales, has just raised $18,000 from supporters pledging money, to build a commercial kitchen full article »

Bush benefits back pockets too

Replanting native forests and woodlands vegetation on Indigenous lands, especially across southern and eastern Australia, could help restore the nation’s native vegetation in places full article »

The Green Swing

Towards the end of 2009 two couples started an ambitious project promoting sustainability in urban living, which they named “The full article »

Work begins on Australia’s first community energy retailer

A new consortium is working to establish Australia’s first community owned retailer, with big plans to build, generate and sell renewable energy in the full article »

C4CE Update

Membership Now Open

Applications for membership of C4CE are now open.

Membership is open to all projects and organisations working on community energy ~ full article »

Take the Pledge this summer!

Keep NSW Beautiful has been campaigning against littering for nearly forty years. Its programs focus on reducing litter. In its full article »

Global wildlife populations down by half since 1970

The world populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles fell overall by 52 per cent between 1970 and 2010.

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The Winds of Change

While community energy is thriving overseas, Australia remains behind the curve.

Denmark Community Windfarm (DCW) has built a two turbine windfarm, with permission for full article »

Town Expression of Interest – ZNET Case Study

The overall purpose of Zero Net Energy Town (ZNET) is to create Australia’s first town which satisfies all of its own energy needs at full article »

99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming

New research by CSIRO has shown that there is less than 1 chance in 100,000 that global average temperature over the past 60 years full article »

Early Bird Tickets now OPEN for NCEF ’14

The North Coast’s annual event for creating a sustainable energy system is just around the corner and it’s time to book your tickets to ensure full article »