by editor | 6 Mar 2012 | Event, SLAM
The next monthly shared meal of the *SLA Community* will be on Friday 9 March at Kent House, with the kitchen opening at 6.30. Our shared meals (held on the 2nd Friday of every month) are a great place to nourish your body and soul. Usually, we get 8-14 people to...
by editor | 6 Mar 2012 | Event
The Armidale Urban Rivercare Group (AURG) in conjunction with the UNE Landcare Group and UNE Facility Management are going to undertake a working bee on Dumaresq Creek at Sport UNE this coming Sunday. The working bee is primarily a tree removal working bee and there...
by editor | 5 Mar 2012 | Event, SLAM
Armidale & District Homebirth Support Network will host the Armidale screening of the film The Face of Birth on 28th March 2012 at 7:30pm at The Armidale Club, 91 Beardy Street Armidale. Tickets will be $10 at the door. See www.faceofbirth.com for more information...
by editor | 2 Mar 2012 | Autumn Festival, Event
Armidale’s Autumn Festival Parade will be on Saturday 17th March, starting at 12.30pm. An SLA gathering to start work on our float is on Saturday 3rd March at 3 o’clock. SLA has been part of this massive parade for the past three years, with a...
by editor | 29 Feb 2012 | Event, SLAM, SNELC
Ellen Nyberg from SNELCC/HiCUB is organising a Clean Up Australia Day event for this coming weekend and is inviting all AURG members and the general community to come along. The Clean Up activities will be working from Civic Park east and west and Ellen will be...
by editor | 29 Feb 2012 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM
The next Thursday Forum in the monthly series organised by Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) will focus on young people’s responses to the challenges of climate change and sustainability. Speaking at the Forum will be Maddie Gramlick and Emily Thomas-Moore (pictured)...
by editor | 29 Feb 2012 | Event, Local Food, SLAM
ALF’s 4th Home Grown Garden Tour is on again this weekend, 3-4 March. Come along and be inspired by all the wonderful gardens in this year’s tour. There’s something for everyone; all 10 gardens have their own unique style. Buy a booklet from the...
by editor | 23 Feb 2012 | SLAM, SNELC
The HiCUB survey is investigating the local attitudes and beliefs about biodiversity in the areas of Armidale, Guyra, Uralla and Walcha. The survey will take about 10-15 minutes to complete online. This survey is the second survey and even if you have not done the...
by editor | 15 Feb 2012 | SLAM |
Hi folks, Tony Windsor looks like he will be the crucial vote on whether burning forests for biomass is eligible as renewable energy under the Federal Renewable Energy Target. He may need to vote on this as soon as today, or tomorrow. At the moment, he seems to be...
by editor | 9 Feb 2012 | AACSGaM, SLAM
A toxic and complex cocktail of heavy metals (arsenic, lead and chromium), salts and petrochemicals has leaked from a coal seam gas water (CSG) storage into the Pilliga forest, near Narrabri in NSW. “The NSW Government should shut down the Santos operation in the...
by editor | 8 Feb 2012 | Black Gully, Event, SNELC
We want to celebrate the HiCUB project, all it has achieved and all those who have contributed. Members of the HiCUB Advisory Committee, and our local community are invited to join us on Sat 11 Feb at Black Gully (behind NERAM) to celebrate community, music and...
by editor | 8 Feb 2012 | Event, SLAM, SNELC
ARMIDALE URBAN RIVERCARE GROUP (AURG) hold working bees on Sunday mornings, approximately monthly. Quite a few SLA members are regulars, and it’s a good chance to meet others at a friendly working session. Here’s the details for the next one: The AURG in...
by editor | 8 Feb 2012 | Event, SLAM, SNELC
Hope you had a great summer break. Got a new project this year, still working on the creek at campus. This year, with fantastic support from UNE Facilities Management Services (FMS) and the Armidale Urban Rivercare Group (AURG) we will be tackling the woody weeds...
by editor | 8 Feb 2012 | SLAM
The film ‘In Transition 2.0’ will be released at the end of March. Pre-screenings were watched simultaneously in a fire station in Moss Side in Manchester, a community centre in Lyttelton in New Zealand that was one of only a few buildings there to survive...
by editor | 8 Feb 2012 | Garden
A location map of the gardens. You can either drive in off Taylor Street or walk down from Kentucky Street and across Black Gully Creek. If you’re on FaceBook here is the group page.
by editor | 7 Feb 2012 | SNELC
The Roadside Vegetation Implementation Project (RVIP) is funded by the NSW Government through its Environmental Trust and managed by the Local Government Association and Shires Associations of NSW. HiCUB helped Guyra, Uralla and Walcha Shire Councils apply for funding...
by editor | 2 Feb 2012 | SLAM
The town library has kindly purchased the following books on sustainable intentional communities at the request of SLA Community’s sub-group, Village: Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities Ecovillage at Ithaca “I was very excited to read the...
by editor | 28 Jan 2012 | Event, Monthly Forum
SLA starts its 2012 monthly Thursday Forums with a Public Conversation with Armidale Dumaresq Council’s General Manager Shane Burns, on Thursday 2nd February at 7pm at Kent House. In seeking to improve Council’s engagement with the community, the General...
by editor | 25 Jan 2012 | SNELC
The Northern Rivers Catchment Action Plan (CAP) was first developed in 2006 to guide natural resource management (NRM) in the Northern Rivers region. It supports the whole community to improve natural resource condition by identifying key issues impacting on natural...
by user submitted | 25 Jan 2012 | SLAM
Shareable is a nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people and projects bringing a shareable world to life. And share how-tos so you can make a sharing real in your life. In a shareable world, things like car sharing, clothing swaps,...
by user submitted | 25 Jan 2012 | SLAM
Urban Depavers Return Parking Lots to Paradise Depave is a Portland-based non-profit that organizes volunteer “depaving” sessions, wherein a group descends on an empty or underutilized lot and transforms it into a public green space, whether a community...
by editor | 17 Jan 2012 | SNELC
Funding has been secured to begin work improving the Martins Gully sub-catchment. In its current condition, Martins Gully delivers sediment and nurient loads to the urban creek system running through Armidale, exacerbating resource issues downstream in the Macleay...
by user submitted | 17 Jan 2012 | Event, SLAM
What will it take for the human race to thrive? THRIVE lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream — uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs...
by editor | 10 Jan 2012 | Event, SLAM
The next shared meal will be on Fri 10 February at Kent House. Anyone interested in sustainability is welcome to attend these meals that are held on the 2nd Friday of every month. The kitchen opens at 6.30, and we usually eat at about 7. It’s very informal...
by editor | 29 Dec 2011 | Event
