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...

Inside Peace Armidale NSW Country Launch

by | 29 Mar 2018 | Event

A joint venture between UNE Peace Studies, Studio View Productions and the Regional Australia Bank. A film of hope from the depths of despair: For immediate release. A Texas prison is an unlikely setting for an educational program about the transformative power of...

Opera Under the Gum Trees at Pilliga Pottery

by | 29 Mar 2018 | AACSGaM, Event

Fri 6 April 2018 @ 7.30 pm Doors open 6.00pm- Pottery and Café open all day Come and laugh under the stars with your family and friends and enjoy a magical night out! Tickets: $35adult/$32conc or group (10 all paid together) $15 students (High School & Uni.) Enjoy...

Creeklands working bee behind the Phil Wheaton Oval

by | 29 Mar 2018 | Event

Our next working bee will be on Sunday 8 April and we are planning for a small planting session and some maintenance work including weeding at the present site along the Creeklands behind the Phil Wheaton Oval and Bruce is trying to get another site prepared by then....

Lismore Community Solarfarms have launched

by | 29 Mar 2018 | Energy, Event, Starfish

Lismore Community Solarfarms has ‘plugged in’ its two 99kW solar arrays which brings the project to completion. It was a day of celebration on Tuesday 30 January 2018, as we launched and “turned on” Farming the Sun’s two Lismore Community Solarfarms: the...

Protecting Water and Life on March 8 in Armidale

by | 8 Mar 2018 | AACSGaM, Event

We must not forget the struggle to protect water and life here in NSW over the campaign to stop Adani. In fact, it is important to combine these campaigns and to combine forces, not only across states and beyond Australia, but also across campaign areas. The system...

Launch of Boomerang Bags in Armidale

by | 8 Mar 2018 | Boomerang Bags, Event, Waste

We have our first sewing bee — making cloth bags to be placed in stores for shoppers to use as an alternative to plastic. It’s on 9am–1pm March 10 at Kent House. There has been one person making bags at home and we’d love to help spread the message. Our...

Working bee at creeklands behind the Phil Wheaton Oval

by | 8 Mar 2018 | AURG, Event

The next AURG working bee will be on Sunday 11 March and we are planning for a small planting session and some maintenance work including weeding of recently planted areas along the Creeklands behind the Phil Wheaton Oval. Details for working bee are as follows:...

Speaking Fire in the Garden — Spoken Word Poetry

by | 8 Mar 2018 | Event

Yaama, Sending a shout out to the poets, storytellers and lovers of words of Armidale and surrounds. Please come along  Wednesday 21st of March to the Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden 6–8pm to share in the art that is spoken word. Come and get some tips on...

Pat Schultz’s 2018 Tag-Along-Tours

by | 8 Mar 2018 | AACSGaM, Event

This is a not for profit tour. It is to educate about the dire impacts of coal seam gas mining / coal mining. See the beauty of Leard and Pilliga Forests. And learn first hand the damage coal seam gas mining has caused in the Pilliga and open cut coal mining is...

Harmony Day Armidale 2018

by | 8 Mar 2018 | Event

Come and Celebrate Harmony Day 2018 On Saturday the 24th of March at the Armidale Town Hall The celebrations start at 4pm, Dinner at 6pm Lots of multicultural food and entertainment Tickets: $10 for Adults $5 for students & school age children Under 5...