An exciting initiative to create Australia’s first community owned electricity retailer has been given the green light.
A community retailer offers energy to local customers full article »
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 10am SAT NOV 9th Every year Armidale folk gather at Black Gully (behind NERAM) to celebrate community, music and biodiversity 
This guide shows planting time periods that should allow you to get a crop in Armidale. 
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. |
Australia’s largest solar project would be financed by ‘everyday investors’ in an exciting community initiative which will bring jobs, investment and solar power, through full article » The first draft of ISO’s standard for sustainable communities has been released for comment. ISO 37101 sets out the requirements, guidance and full article » 
Left to Rright:Dr Tim Nelson, AGLDr Fereidoon Sioshansi, Menlo Energy Economics (USA)Harry Creamer, Climate Change AustraliaAdam Blakester, Starfish InitiativesLauren Zell, NSW Office of full article » 
Saw this on Boing-Boing. I love the quote by Gregg Segal (the photographer) … “We’ve made our bed and in it we lie.” Check out full article » 10 minutes to spare? An animated Australian sustainability video, from the City of Canning, WA sent in by Cameron Love from a green light*. 
Towns throughout regional NSW are invited to enter the 2014 Tidy Towns | Sustainable Communities. Applications are encouraged for your town, council, group, club, full article » 
Global greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing by at least 1.3 per cent every year since 1970. From 2000 to 2010, those full article » 
1. Efficiency Over the life of a building the operational energy used to run it generally exceeds the embodied energy used to full article » 
LISMORE is leading the nation in solar power with a higher percentage of households in the 2480 postcode using rooftop solar and/or hot water systems full article » 
With 4,000 direct jobs in rural NSW and over $6billion in investment in the pipeline you would expect politicians on the Southern Tablelands to be full article » 
A woman walks toward a well through clouds of dust raised by cattle in the wadi outside Louri village in the Mao region of Chad. full article » 
Seventeen philanthropic foundations controlling nearly $2 billion in assets have agreed to put their money where their ethics are, announcing they will be divesting full article » 
Most Australians overestimate how much they are doing for the environment compared to others, and are more concerned about water shortages, pollution and household waste full article » 
The official website for C4CE’s Community Energy Congress is now live! The website is a hub for all news and full article » 
Alex Fried was the 2013 Brower Youth Award Winner. Have a look at how he’s progressing with his project Post Landfill Action full article » Some $1.6 trillion is invested in Australia’s superannuation funds. The Climate Institute have released a publication, Climate Smart Super: Understanding Superannuation Climate Risk, with information full article » The 85 richest people on Earth now own the the same amount of financial wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population ~ that full article » 
More Australians aged 25-44 are moving from cities to regional areas than vice versa. According to the Regional Australia Institute, ‘returners’ full article »
Unsubsidised renewable energy is now cheaper than electricity from new-build coal and gas-fired power stations in Australia, according to new analysis from research firm full article » Kevin Wheeler from the Future of Talent Institute talks about this rapidly changing world and what that means for the full article » 
Reports released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can be daunting, even for science and policy insiders. The full Physical Science Assessment, full article » 
This is a really good opinion piece by Dan Haugen on sustainability. It highlights the tensions, the paradoxes and the complexities of sustainability. While full article » 
CORENA have completed the installation of a 7kW solar power system which is probably the first crowd-funded project of its kind in Australia. The installation full article » |
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