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.

The world is probably better than you think

This presentation is by the statistical extraordinare Hans Rosling from Gapminder.

Hans particularly dispels the myth about the full article »

Tasmania commits to 100% renewable electricity by 2020

The Tasmanian Government has launched its strategy to be using renewable energy for 100% of its electricity by 2020 and exporting the surplus, as well full article »

Windfarms Tour a Success

New England Wind organised a coach tour to Canberra from 7th to 10th November 2013. Twenty-one passengers travelled from New England, with a further full article »

Solar powered households may face higher fees

Australia’s one million households with rooftop solar photovoltaic panels face the prospect of higher charges to use the poles and wires that distribute electricity. The full article »

Be Aware ~ the real carbon conspirators are really real

All too often progressives and environmentalists are wrongly portrayed as creating a carbon conspiracy to serve their self interest.

It’s just one of the misdirection full article »

Social Enterprises Symposium – Byron Bay, 22 November 2013

Social enterprise can transform your business and your community! Discover how businesses of all types can create positive social change and economic full article »

Windfarms Tour 7-10 November ~ A few places are still available

The program for the Windfarms Tour has expanded to include:

two windfarms (Woodlawn and Capital) two solar farms (Singleton and Bungendore) the bioreactor at full article »

2013 Coffs Coast Sustainable Living Festival

The 2013 Coffs Coast Sustainable Living Festival will be an inspirational celebration of all things sustainable. The Festival aims to engage and inspire ways of full article »

Tidy Towns ~ Sustainable Communities Weekend in Armidale

Since 1981, the Tidy Towns – Sustainable Communities Program has been rewarding and recognising the civic pride, community spirit and environmental commitment of regional communities full article »

The Tucker Patch ~ Gloucester NSW

The Tucker Patch is a demonstration Garden in Gloucester NSW. It’s a place where small and largescale crops are being trialled as a model for full article »

Biochar Trial for Australia’s Top End

This week an organic farm at Lambells Lagoon, near Darwin, has spread biochar onto a two hectare block of zucchinis, cucumber and full article »

Inland rail gains momentum

The Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail Alliance (MBIRA) and the Border Regional Organisation of Councils (BROC) co-hosted a Strategy Meeting in Moree to identify ways full article »

HyperVillage ~ The New Rural

The HyperVillage is an idea for an alternative to uber-urban-cities, which seem to be the predominant view of many commentators as the most sustainable future full article »

Materialism vs Sustainability

Australian’s have one of the highest environmental footprints per capita in the world. If everyone in the world lived like Australians, we’d need more than full article »

Global fossil fuel incentives top $2.4 trillion per year

In the hotly politicised energy arena, public attention is rarely drawn to the fact that fossil fuels receieve incentives which are far greater than those full article »

Earth Overshoot Day comes earlier again in 2013

August 20 was Earth Overshoot Day 2013. This marks the date when globally we have consumed all the resources the earth has created for the full article »

95% likelihood of human created climate change

A leaked draft of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report has revealed scientists are almost certain human activity is full article »

Farm productivity, the natural way

At this time of year, on the cusp of spring, much of the NSW Central West is grazed as closely as a bowling green. “Allendale”, full article »

Volks Energy ~ community owned energy in Germany

100% of new Australian power plants are wind or solar

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has reported that all new electricity generation proposals received in the last 12 months have been either for large full article »

Invitation ~ Sustainable Business Forum

The Northern Inland Sustainable Business Network (NISBN) has announced an innvotive Sustainable Business Forum to be held at The Roxy Theatre full article »

Being sustainable to the very end ~ Natural Burials

Legislation has passed the South Australian Parliament to recognise natural burials. Natural burial can involve use of a biodegradable coffin or full article »

New Energy for Rural Australia

If a rural community could choose its source of energy, would it opt to stay with coal, or move to renewables?

The message from the full article »

Is 100% renewable electricity really that unrealistic?

While many countries still discuss whether or not a 100% renewable energy system – or “just” a 100% renewable electricity supply – is even theoretically full article »

Public Launch of Community-Owned Solar and Wind Power

Big advances towards sustainable power generation by several communities in NSW will be announced as part of the New Energy Forum in Tamworth on July full article »