Visions for Armidale Creeklands AGM

by | 20 Jun 2018 | AURG, Event

Any interested in joining our not-for-profit association and all existing members are invited to come along to our 1st Annual General Meeting – to be held upstairs at the Armidale Bowling Club (Dumaresq St) – at 5.30 pm on Thursday June 21, 2018. Please...

Prickly Problems Project launch

by | 20 Jun 2018 | AURG, Event, SNELC

You’re invited to the launch of the Prickly Problems Project and to celebrate 16 years of Armidale Urban Rivercare projects. Saturday June 23, 10-12pm at Creeklands Behind Phil Wheaton Oval, Erskine St Free brunch by Dumaresq Lions Club All...

VIDEO: Save Ugly

by | 20 Jun 2018 | SLAM

Wilderness Society have rebooted their look with the tag line ‘Life. Support.’ and refreshed their campaigns with the latest being ‘Save Ugly’. Its a new angle on an ongoing problem of motivating people to value threatened environment and...

Upcoming Leard Pilliga tours

by | 3 Jun 2018 | AACSGaM

Hi, Places are available for all tours. An all wheel drive vehicle is preferable as the unsealed roads can be potholed and corrugated. It is advised to fill up in Narrabri on the way to the Pilliga town ship, before starting the tour, and again on returning to...

Climate Matters: Smart Electricity Deals Save Money

by | 3 Jun 2018 | Energy

Choosing an electricity retail provider is often challenging. Privatised electricity companies generate substantial profits and can confuse consumers.  A common trick is to increase prices, then entice customers with impressive-sounding discounts. . Until August 2017,...

TEDtalk video: My mushroom burial suit

by | 3 Jun 2018 | SLAM

Here’s a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally — using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk...

Choose to refuse — Plastic Free July

by | 3 Jun 2018 | Waste

You may already know that Plastic Free July had its humble beginnings in 2011, as a local initiative driven by the Western Metropolitan Regional Council in Western Australia. The incredible growth the campaign has seen since then has seen us recently become an...

AACSGaM & Progressive Cinema: Sacrifice Zone

by | 9 May 2018 | AACSGaM, Event, UNE

Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas and Mining and Progressive Cinema present Sacrifice Zone. ‘Sacrifice Zone’ — the film of the threat posed by Santos’ CSG proposals for the Pilliga. When: Thursday 10 May, 2018,  7-9pm Where: Arts Theatre 2, University...

They keep coming back — Boomerang Bags

by | 9 May 2018 | Boomerang Bags, Event

Saturday 12th May, 9am, The Jacaranda Room out the back of Kent House is the location of Armidale Boomerang Bags third sewing bee. Join us to help reduce the use of plastic by sewing cloth bags. If you can’t sew, no problem, we can help you or there are...

Climate Matters: How does climate change affect our health?

by | 9 May 2018 | Climate

For some of us, climate change is a problem in the future. But the health impacts of climate change are already evident. Climate change is a problem right now. Worldwide, weather-related disasters have increased by 46% since 2007. Australia itself has experienced more...

Paddle the Clybucca Wetlands

by | 3 May 2018 | AACSGaM, Event

Save Our Macleay River Inc. invite you to Paddle the Clybucca Wetlands on Saturday 26th May 2018, sponsored by North Coast Local Land Services. This event will showcase the environmental issues associated with the drainage of the Collombatti- Clybucca Wetlands.  Guest...

Climate Matters: Armidale’s Best Kept Secret

by | 30 Apr 2018 | Black Gully, SLAM

Commonly known as the Mike O’Keeffe Woodland, the Black Gully Crown Reserve has been transformed from a weed-infested dumping ground into the restored and revegetated area we all enjoy today. As trustees of this Crown reserve the Armidale Tree Group was recognised as...

Electric Vehicle Expo 2018 in Inverell

by | 30 Apr 2018 | Event, Transport

“Gathering of the Geeks” Electric Vehicles Expo Where: National Transport Museum Inverell NSW 2360 When: 4th to 6th May 2018 Visit the New England in Autumn for the first Electric Vehicle Expo and Motor Show held over 3 days and 3 Shires. The National...

New SLA action group — Boomerang Bags

by | 24 Apr 2018 | Boomerang Bags

Sustainable Living Armidale’s Waste action group had this great idea — Bring-a-Bag Armidale. The idea was to promote people taking their own bags shopping so they didn’t need to use the plastic bags provided by shops. The reason was that plastic bags were...

Second working bee for Boomerang Bags

by | 13 Apr 2018 | Boomerang Bags, Event

Saturday 14th April, 9pm, The Jacaranda Room out the back of Kent House is the location of Armidale Boomerang Bags second sewing bee. Join us to help reduce the use of plastic by sewing cloth bags. If you can’t sew, no problem, we can help you or there are...

Farm Planning Takes Innovation Approach

by | 13 Apr 2018 | Event, SNELC

Landholders in the Southern New England are set to take advantage of farm planning with an agro-ecology focus and a twist of innovation at the end of April. “This particular opportunity has emerged out of feedback from participants at an event with David Hardwick run...