by editor | 24 Nov 2015 | Local Food, Road to Paris, SLAM
In Liege, new local food enterprises are being considered in their wider context, that of a ‘Food Belt’ around the city, a joined-up learning network of microfarms.
by user submitted | 15 Nov 2015 | Local Food, SLAM
OzHarvest is the first perishable food rescue organisation in Australia collecting quality excess food from commercial outlets and delivering it, direct and free of charge, to 600 charities providing much needed assistance to vulnerable men, women and children across...
by user submitted | 12 Nov 2015 | SLAM
In our era of unprecedented social and environmental change, new stories alert us to the shortcomings of the myth of unlimited economic growth. What better way to support an alternative ‘big story’ than to make a film? Film is the great myth-making machine of the...
by editor | 10 Nov 2015 | Climate, Energy, Road to Paris, SLAM
The banner, or visual petition, has grown and grown. It’s been available for people to draw or write on at lots of events. If you’re an SLA supporter, and you haven’t yet put something on it, get in touch. The banner will be the centrepiece of our...
by editor | 4 Nov 2015 | Event, Local Food, Monthly Forum
The next SLA Forum to be held on Thursday, 5th November, will be presented by Charlie Winter, from Pathfinders. Charlie is the Tilbuster Station project coordinator and will discuss the work being done at Tilbuster, where Pathfinders combines support for disadvantaged...
by editor | 29 Oct 2015 | AACSGaM, Event
We are excited to invite you to the beautiful and productive Liverpool Plains for a fun and family friendly weekend at the “Harvest Festival against Shenhua”. The festvial will include talks, a machinery display, music and tours and will be held at our...
by editor | 29 Oct 2015 | AURG, Event, Road to Paris
A successful planting day was held on Sunday 11 October with 30 participants planting 480 trees! The day was in support of Sustainable Living Armidale’s focus on Road to Paris. Richelle Roberts SLA presented the case for planting trees and Angus Adair AURG thanked SLA...
by editor | 29 Oct 2015 | Event |
Australia’s pioneering nature discovery project, Bush Blitz, is coming to New England to discover and document new species in Oxley Wild River National Park. Join leading scientists for an informative evening to find out what’s in your backyard! Find out what...
by user submitted | 29 Oct 2015 | Road to Paris, SLAM
As we proceed along the Road to Paris, Transition Network is posting one story every day for the 21 days leading up to COP21. Today’s story is of a formerly derelict farm being transformed into a community farm, providing a meeting place, caring services, an...
by editor | 29 Oct 2015 | Event, Road to Paris |
This is going to be mega! Last year almost 700,000 people took to their streets and created the largest mobilisation on climate change in history. This year we are going even bigger! If hundreds of thousands of us join events in cities and towns everywhere, we’ll show...
by editor | 28 Oct 2015 | Event
Join us as we celebrate Armidale’s community owned nursery!! A fantastic range of free workshops and activities. Bring the family and enjoy. Live music and produce stalls. 10.30am – Free Workshop (Booking essential) “Growing Native plants in Armidale” with...
by editor | 28 Oct 2015 | Event
The inaugural Living Coast Festival will take place from 1 – 30 November 2015 across the Bellingen, Coffs Harbour and Nambucca region. The Festival is open to all organisers of festivals, exhibitions, markets, forums, workshops, film screenings and other...
by editor | 28 Oct 2015 | SLAM
The 2015 Transition Network International Conference was the first we’d run since 2012, which was at Battersea Arts Centre in London. Our home was the very beautiful Seale Hayne, near Newton Abbot, and a remarkable few days it was too.
by editor | 27 Oct 2015 | Road to Paris
Hi all, People often joke that three degrees warmer sounds like a nicer day. But three degrees of global warming has devastating impacts on the people, places and species we love. To help raise awareness of this important message, WWF Climate Change and Earth Hour...
by editor | 21 Oct 2015 | Event, Garden, SLAM
Not really close to home, but interesting combination. Outer Ecology meets Inner Ecology. 12 -28 November 2015, 17 day course, Permaculture Design Certificate with Robina McCurdy, Divyajyoti & Anahata Yoga Retreat. Golden Bay, New...
by editor | 20 Oct 2015 | Black Gully, Climate, Energy, Event, Garden, Road to Paris, SLAM
The Black Gully Festival is on this Sunday, October 25th, at Black Gully, from 11pm to 8:30pm, NERAM grounds, 106-114 Kentucky Street. More music, more stalls, more commitment to keeping global warming under 2 degrees. Here is the schedule: Sound Stage 11am DJ Loki...
by editor | 20 Oct 2015 | Event, Road to Paris
Marty Branagan’s ‘Road to Paris’ event is jointly presented by Eco Arts Australis and Armidale Tree Group. Opening night is Friday October 23rd at 7pm at the Woodland Centre, 80 Mann St. Live music and nibbles.
by editor | 20 Oct 2015 | AACSGaM, Event |
October 26 – Belgrave Cinema Armidale – 6:45pm Tickets $20 include Q&A with the filmmaker and are presale only! A new film reveals unseen footage of coal, corruption and community resistance of one of Australia’s most controversial mining projects –...
by editor | 19 Oct 2015 | Starfish
A previous return trip Brisbane – Canberra – Brisbane illustrated my motivation for environmental protection, EVs and sense for adventure. This time around, I propped it up a notch higher. Far North Queensland (FNQ) has strong international tourism ace cards and...
by editor | 16 Oct 2015 | Climate, Energy, Event, SLAM |
UNE is hosting the ANZSEE 2015 annual conference, 19-23 October: ‘Thriving Through Transformation – Local and Global Sustainability’. Two events will be free, but anyone can sign up and attend other sessions, for a fee. See their web site for a...
by user submitted | 16 Oct 2015 | Event, SLAM |
An environmental justice masterclass is one of the activities of the ANZ Society of Ecological Economics Conference at the University of New England (19–23 October). It will be held on Monday 19 October at the Smart farm 9am–12.30pm. No background knowledge is...
by editor | 16 Oct 2015 | Event
There will be bushcare working bees in Snow Gums Bushland Reserve on both Sunday 18th October and Sunday 15th November. On October 18th we will work in the southern end of the reserve among the lovely wildflowers so meet at the bottom entrance across the road from 54...
by editor | 16 Oct 2015 | AACSGaM, Event
We will KNAG Thursday 22nd October 11am to 1pm in the mall outside Barnaby Joyce’s office, near Courthouse coffee shop. The focus of this Knit in is ‘Wrong Mine Wrong Place’ – Shenhua coal mine must not go ahead on Australia’s food bowl,...
by editor | 16 Oct 2015 | Starfish
The amount of fish in the oceans has halved since 1970, in a plunge to the “brink of collapse” caused by over-fishing and other threats, the WWF conservation group said last week. Populations of some commercial fish stocks, such as a group including tuna, mackerel and...
by editor | 8 Oct 2015 | AURG, Event, Road to Paris
Armidale Urban Rivercare Group (AURG) and Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) are two local community action groups combining efforts this weekend to highlight the Armidale community’s support for real global action on climate change at the UN Paris Climate conference...
