by editor | 17 Sep 2015 | Event, Road to Paris, Transport
Bring your friends, bring your family and bring your pedal power for this fun social ride from the Armidale Farmers’ Market Curtis Park at 10am to the Pine Forest. This is along the cycleway for 5km, there is no riding on any roads in this activity for riders of...
by editor | 17 Sep 2015 | Event |
UNE Skills Trade Society’s 2nd Annual Ball! This is a formal event, but the dress code is to wear something made, found, borrowed, or recycled. That’s right – don’t go spending hundreds of dollars on a new outfit, buy one from an op shop or...
by user submitted | 17 Sep 2015 | Event, SLAM
The Annual Simply Sharing Meal 2015 is next Sunday 20th September at 12 noon in Armidale Uniting Church – 114 Rusden St in the Youth Centre Lounge, up the back of the church. Parking in the carpark Guest Speaker: Edwin Chang’a – Edwin is a PhD student at UNE,...
by editor | 17 Sep 2015 | Starfish
RenewEconomy is launching One Step Off The Grid, a sister site with a focus on the consumer side of the energy market, and how the uptake of rooftop solar, battery storage and other technologies will usher in a dramatic transformation of the energy system. Australia...
by editor | 10 Sep 2015 | Event, Road to Paris, Transport |
Show just how much pedal power you have during Armidale’s third annual Commute Challenge – a NSW Bike Week activity and continues the Armidale Road to Paris journey. Make a team or just ride yourself to be in the running for great prizes by riding either the furthest...
by editor | 10 Sep 2015 | AURG, Event
Dear all The AURG is holding a Working Bee on Sunday 13th September, 2015. This will involve extending the tree planting and some weeding, maintenance and mulching of the areas planted during the Autumn. Details of the working bee are as follows:- Time: 8.30 am Date:...
by editor | 10 Sep 2015 | Starfish |
Western Australia has installed a network of 12 electric vehicle fast charging stations, that can fully charge an EV in just 30 minutes and connecting Perth to Augusta ~ the most south-westerly town in Australia. The 310km “electric highway” was co-funded by the RAC....
by editor | 10 Sep 2015 | Starfish |
The Observatory is an independent 4.5 star hotel overlooking the beaches of Port Macquarie and the dedication of it’s 80 strata title owners to tackling climate change has earned it the moniker of ‘Australia’s greenest hotel’. “Our sustainability plan stemmed from...
by editor | 10 Sep 2015 | Starfish |
Affectionately called “Professor” by his neighbors, Josefino Martinez is a well-respected indigenous farmer and community organizer from the remote town of Chicahuaxtla, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The land he cultivates is etched into the mountainside, with a...
by editor | 3 Sep 2015 | Event, Monthly Forum
Instead of the usual monthly forum at Kent House, September’s open forum will be Bob Brown at Armidale Town Hall on Saturday the 19th at the earlier time of 5pm.
by editor | 3 Sep 2015 | Event, Transport
In the lead up to NSW Bike Week’s Commute Challenge and Pedal to Piney, there will be a head to head blend-off! You heard right Blender V Blender, two contestants, one using a solar powered blender and one pedal powered blender (pictured), making two local fruit...
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...
