by editor | 3 Sep 2015 | Energy |
Fellow Divestment Day campaigners in Armidale, As you would know, I am involved in this particular campaign because of my background in banking while I was in Sydney. ‘Market Forces’ and ‘350.org Australia’ have done a fine job with organising...
by editor | 3 Sep 2015 | Event
conference15.transitionnetwork.org #TNCONF2015 It’s back! The Transition Network International Conference is only a month away. This is our first global conference and we’re so excited to be welcoming to the UK, the home of the Transition Movement,...
by editor | 3 Sep 2015 | Energy, Starfish |
With the Support of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, and the filming team, Oren Siedler and Michael Balson, project partners, Lismore City Council we are pleased to share this educational and promotional video for the Farming the Sun project – Lismore...
by editor | 3 Sep 2015 | Climate, Event, Road to Paris |
2015 is a big year for the international politics of climate change. Just in time for the UN climate summit in Paris in December, the Interdisciplinary Distance Learning Programme in Environmental Sciences (infernum) at Hagen University, Germany has produced a massive...
by editor | 28 Aug 2015 | Event
Dear Friends EcoArts Conference, 14-16 February 2016, Wollongong We are looking forward to hosting a wonderful and inspiring event focusing on exploring sustainability through the arts. What can you expect from the 2016 Conference: keynote speakers workshops and other...
by user submitted | 27 Aug 2015 | Event, SLAM |
You are invited to our next 6 Great Books in the Library discussion event. An opportunity to discuss some of our most influential books with Humanities and Creative Arts scholars from UNE. Tuesday, 02 September 2015, 5.30-6.30pm in the Armidale Dumaresq Library Rachel...
by editor | 26 Aug 2015 | Event, Road to Paris |
Dear Teachers and Students, we hope you take up the offer and make a video. Sincerely the Armidale Dumaresq Environmental Sustainability Committee
by editor | 20 Aug 2015 | Energy, Starfish
The outback Queensland Shire of Winton will soon power all of its local government buildings and infrastructure using locally sourced renewable energy, after the council waved through plans to build two geothermal plants with a total 300kW capacity. It is part of an...
by editor | 20 Aug 2015 | Climate, Road to Paris, Starfish
Documentaries have an incredible power to raise awareness and create transformative changes in consciousness both at the personal and global levels. Over the last 8 years, Films for Action have watched hundreds of social change documentaries and cataloged the best of...
by editor | 20 Aug 2015 | Climate, Road to Paris, Starfish |
The planet is entering a new period of extinction with top scientists warning that species all over the world are “essentially the walking dead” ~ including our own. The report, authored by scientists at Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley universities, found that...
by user submitted | 3 Aug 2015 | Event, SLAM
The ZNET stand will be at the Uralla Shire Council Open Day on Friday 7th August 2015 as part of Local Government Week. The open day runs from 10:00am to 2:00pm and will be held in Porter Park which is near the Library in Uralla....
by editor | 31 Jul 2015 | Energy, Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM
It’s a gas! Greenhouse gases – sources, potency, half life…. Thursday, August 6th, 7pm, Kent House The first Thursday of August, the popular Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) Forum will focus on greenhouse gas emissions. This is apt because each country is...
by editor | 24 Jul 2015 | AACSGaM, Climate, Event, SLAM
Talk: Clean, Green, & Smart or Coal Badlands: the future of New England When: 28 July 2015, 6:00pm Where: Tops room, Armidale City Bowling Club, 92 Dumaresq St. Speaker: Greens NSW MP John Kaye The future of New England is up for grabs. Jobs, the environment and...
by editor | 22 Jul 2015 | Climate, Road to Paris, Starfish
If everyone lived in the same way as Australians or North Americans we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us. This “ecological footprint” analysis shows that even the most “green” western European nations, with their more progressive approaches to...
by editor | 19 Jul 2015 | Energy, Event, SLAM
LAUNCH DETAILS 10:30am | Wednesday 22 July 2015 Curtis Park | Armidale Open to the Public|No RSVP required New England Wind would like to invite you to the launch of an exciting new national wind monitoring program for community windfarms, using state-of-the-art SODAR...
by editor | 16 Jul 2015 | SLAM
Progressive Cinema presents Within the Eye of the Storm on Tuesday, 21st July, at 6:45pm, at McCrossin’s Mill, 24-28 Salisbury St, Uralla. “A unique, beautiful story filled with love and hope.” (Sundance Institute) Bassam and Rami, a Palestinian and...
by editor | 16 Jul 2015 | Road to Paris
We hope you have already heard of Armidale Road to Paris, a campaign to raise awareness throughout our community of the importance of the United Nations Climate Summit. This is the first of what we assume will be many specific requests for help. Armidale Road To Paris...
by editor | 15 Jul 2015 | Climate, Energy, Event, SLAM
by editor | 14 Jul 2015 | Event
Progressive Cinema presents A Will for the Woods at 6pm on Friday, 17th July, Kent House, 142 Faulkner Street, Armidale. Followed by a community dinner. What if our last act could be a gift to the planet? Musician, psychiatrist, and folk dancer Clark Wang prepares for...
by editor | 14 Jul 2015 | Event
Christmas in July Lunch to be held at McCrossin’s Mill at Uralla next Saturday 18 July. We need to finalise numbers for catering purposes asap, so if you would like to come along, please email me back by Sunday 12 or Monday morning at the latest. We plan to have a...
by editor | 14 Jul 2015 | Event
Robert Sorby Tour 2015 Free Woodturning Demonstration Featuring Chris Pouncy Armidale Mens Shed 251 Mann St Armidale 18th July 1pm Limited Spaces Available! RSVP to reserve your place. RSVP to: Roy Powell {mobile prefix oh for}19 367...
by user submitted | 14 Jul 2015 | Event, Garden, Local Food, SLAM
TAFE New England is once again running a series of topical workshops on the art and practice of living more sustainably. The presenters: Ray South and Jane Pickard are both highly regarded and experienced practitioners, both of whom have delivered many such workshops,...
by editor | 10 Jul 2015 | AACSGaM, Event, Road to Paris
Frackman will be showing at Kent House 2pm on the 12th of July followed by afternoon tea & a brief introduction to Sustainable Living Armidale’s latest action group – Armidale Road to Paris. Frackman tells the story of accidental activist Dayne Pratzky...
by editor | 9 Jul 2015 | Road to Paris
The Armidale Road To Paris campaign is shaping up to spread/reach throughout the Armidale community. There’s a small job for you, as a person concerned about climate change. Can you undertake to talk to a few of your friends, family, or colleagues, about this...
by user submitted | 2 Jul 2015 | Energy, SLAM
Chinese wind energy giant Goldwind has announced it will begin construction of the 175MW White Rock wind farm in northern NSW in November, the second big wind farm to get the go-ahead since the revised renewable energy target legislation passed the Senate last month....
