Costa at Armidale Community Garden

by editor | 20 May 2015 | Event, Garden

Looking forward to Costa visiting Armidale Community Garden for a while on Saturday morning. Garden supporters very welcome to come along, if you’d like to have some morning tea with us it might be wise to bring your own mug

Public forum on sustainable food movements

by editor | 19 May 2015 | Event, Garden

There will be a public forum on sustainable food movements, Aboriginal environmental knowledge, and social change from 11.30am – 1pm Friday 22nd May. A series of short presentations by Costa Georgiadis, UNE scholars and local Aboriginal community leaders will be...

East Armidale Community Garden Open Day

by editor | 19 May 2015 | Event, Garden

Come along to help us celebrate the opening of a new Community Garden in Narwan Village, East Armidale. We are growing a garden to promote fresh, healthy and sustainable food choices; cultural pride and community confidence; and the environmental knowledge and...

Knitting Nannas ‘Raise the Heat on CommBank’

by editor | 19 May 2015 | AACSGaM, Event

In conjunction with 350.org’s ‘Raise the Heat on CommBank’ We will meet to knit, crochet, chat outside our local Commonwealth Bank. When: 11 am to 1 pm Thursday, 21 May 2015 Where: outside the Commonwealth Bank, Dangar St, Armidale. *All are welcome...

Adapt NSW – Climate Change Information Sessions, Thursday 21 May – Tamworth, Thursday 28 May – Coffs Harbour

by editor | 19 May 2015 | Climate, Event

Through its Climate Change Information Delivery program, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) is developing support and information resources to build the capacity of NSW decision makers to prepare and respond to likely climate change impacts. Throughout May...

Biodynamic Gardeners Association Field Day Saturday 30th May, 2015

by editor | 19 May 2015 | SLAM

The local Armidale biodynamic group are pleased to present an official BDGA Field Day with David & Heidi Marks of Marook Dairy, Elands. Attendance is a pre-requisite for those wishing to have an opportunity to join and purchase BDGA preparations for your garden,...

Seed Saving Workshop – Cancelled

by editor | 19 May 2015 | Event, Garden, Local Food

The Armidale Community Garden is running a seed saving workshop, facilitated by Ray South, on Sunday 31st May 2015 from 2pm to around 4pm at the garden. There will be some time sitting and talking and some time walking around the garden looking at what is in seed and...

Stop new wood heaters emitting more PM2.5 pollution in a few hours than the average car in an entire year

by editor | 19 May 2015 | SLAM

Dear Friends, I’ve created the petition “Stop new wood heaters emitting more pollution in a few hours than the average car in an entire year” and wanted to ask if you could add your name too. The UN Environment Program/World Meteorological...

From Little Things Big Things Grow

by editor | 19 May 2015 | Garden

‘Cultural pride, self esteem, and community confidence are just a few of the aspects that a community garden will bring’, says Armidale Aboriginal leader Steve Widders. In acknowledging his Aboriginal ancestry, Mr Widders reflected on the symbolism of the Aboriginal...

The Great, or not so great, Acceleration

by editor | 19 May 2015 | Climate, Road to Paris, Starfish

Humanity has become the dominant force of change on Earth, surpassing in importance the geophysical forces that up until now have shaped the biosphere. In this new geological epoch ~ often called the Anthropocene ~ a profound new risk has been added to the...

Follow up to: What should happen to the Northern Line – links and letter

by editor | 18 May 2015 | Transport

As mentioned at the forum, here is a follow up with links to relevant groups and Mercurius’ action plan that was tabled at the meeting. New England Railway Inc New England Rail Trail – NERT Inc. Save the Great Northern Rail line Group Action Plan suggested...

May Forum: What should happen to the Northern Rail Line?

by editor | 7 May 2015 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM | 12 comments

The railway north of Armidale have been disused for over 25 years. There is an initiative to convert the track from Black Mountain to Ben Lomond to a rail trail for recreation walking and riding for both horse and cycle. Another initiative is to run a heritage train...

AURG focus plantings on the southern side of Dumaresq Creek between Niagara and Donnelly streets

by editor | 7 May 2015 | AURG, Event

This will be subject to availability of Mulch that is still in short supply. This will be a continuation of the area with the three focus plantings on the southern side of Dumaresq Creek between Niagara and Donnelly streets. We will also be planting Eucalyptus along...

The Story of Stuff Project release new microbeads movie

by editor | 7 May 2015 | SLAM

While there’s a lot of information out there about microbeads, we’ve condensed everything you need to know—what they are, how to find them, and what we can do about them—in one video. But we’re not stopping there. Our nearly one million Community members are leading...

Believe it or not… the earth is getting greener!

by editor | 7 May 2015 | Starfish

While the news coming out of forests is often dominated by deforestation and habitat loss, new research published in Nature Climate Change shows that the world has actually got greener over the past decade. Despite ongoing deforestation in South America and Southeast...

Waste-free hair dressing

by editor | 7 May 2015 | Starfish

Sustainable Salons Australia (SSA), a program to divert 95% of the waste generated in hair salons from landfill, is proving to be a valuable marketing tool for businesses that sign up. SSA provides salons with a “swap and go” multi-bin system that collects about 95%...

Knit-In in solidarity with NW Alliance actions in Gunnedah, Narrabri and Sydney

by editor | 29 Apr 2015 | AACSGaM, Event

Thank you to everyone who participated in the record breaking longest highway demonstration on Sunday, and thanks to the people of Coonabarabran who started it all! Across over 2,500km of highway in NSW and QLD, hundreds of Australians called for protection of water,...

Inner Transition

by user submitted | 27 Apr 2015 | SLAM

It wasn’t very long into the evolution of Transition in Totnes, in 2006, that Hilary Prentice and Sophy Banks came round to my house to discuss the seeds of what would eventually become known as ‘Inner Transition’, or the ‘Heart and Soul’...

World-leading tyre recycling operator in Warren, NSW

by editor | 27 Apr 2015 | Starfish | 1 comment

An Australian recycling start-up has been named as Australia’s first ever finalist in the US-based Edison Awards, one of the world’s top gongs for cleantech innovation. Green Distillation Technologies (GDT) is in the process of commercialising its technology that...

The Plundering of Pilliga and Leard Forest Book Launch

by editor | 15 Apr 2015 | AACSGaM, Event

You are invited to the launch of my book The Plundering of Pilliga and Leard Forest and the Surrounding Farmlands at Boobooks book shop, The Mall, Armidale on Wednesday 15th April at 5pm. RSVP Monday 13/4/15. The book ‘The Plundering of Pilliga and Leard Forest and...

Earth Healing Meditation

by user submitted | 15 Apr 2015 | Event, SLAM

I offer this meditation group as a consequence of my concern for the planet. There is a considerable amount of research that demonstrates the power of meditation/prayer to create peace in troubled communities and to bring healing to humans, other animals, plants and...

Community supported business models

by editor | 15 Apr 2015 | Starfish

You may be familiar with community supported agriculture (CSA) ~ which is where locals purchase a share of the season’s harvest upfront and get a box of fresh produce each week from the farm. Now you can get your craft beer that way too! By purchasing a craft brewery...

CSIRO and BOM create new site: Climate Change in Australia

by editor | 10 Apr 2015 | Climate, Road to Paris

CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology have recently completed updated climate projections to supersede information released in 2007. The research is currently available on the Climate Change in Australia website as a pdf downloadable ‘Technical Report’ and...

Bring your damaged fruit, vege and herbs to a Vacola-ing session

by editor | 6 Apr 2015 | Event, Local Food

Given the rain-damaged fruit and veg around, we’re running a cook-up workshop on Wednesday, 8th April at 3pm at 93 Brown St. Bring your damaged tomatoes, eggplants, capsicums and onions, bruised garlic and basil, and anything else you want to throw in. We’ll have a...

Friends of the Alliance Photo and Poetry Competitions Ends this Thursday!

by editor | 6 Apr 2015 | Event, Starfish

The Biennial National Rural Health Conference, Friends of the Alliance is hosting an amateur Photographic Poetry Competition to celebrate life in rural and remote Australia. Entries close soon! The theme for the competition is People Places Possibilities ~ and photos...