Periodicities in mean sea-level fluctuations and climate change proxies: lessons from the modelling for coastal management

by editor | 28 May 2014 | Event

Geography & Planning Research Seminar Series Thursday 29 May @ 1pm, Earth Studies (Co2) Building, Room 302 A/Prof Robert Baker and Sarah McGowan The question of whether sea levels and global temperatures are accelerating or decelerating is a major source of...

Years of Living Dangerously continues 7pm 29 May at Kent House

by editor | 28 May 2014 | Climate, Event

The Climate Action Group will present some clips from further episodes of this truly dramatic series about climate change with major celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon and many others. We will also present an overview of the...

Fundraising Dinner – 30 May Rene on the Mews for Northern Tablelands Wildlife Carers

by editor | 28 May 2014 | Event

The Northern Tablelands Wildlife Carers Association have organised a fundraising dinner to be held at Rene on the Mews, on 30th May with the New England Conservatorium of Music performing. We hope that many of you are able to attend. Friday 30 May 6 pm for canapes...

Have you heard of the ‘food forest’ concept?

by editor | 27 May 2014 | SLAM

Check it out: http://www.beaconfoodforest.org It is a community project in Seattle where they plan to grow all edible foods in a public park and it is free to everyone to participate and enjoy the fruits. Sounds excellent.

5 Keys for a Sustainable Home

by editor | 23 May 2014 | Starfish

1. Efficiency Over the life of a building the operational energy used to run it generally exceeds the embodied energy used to build it (save the likes of a passive house). This explains part of why there has been such a push for efficiency in recent years. 2. Energy...

Lismore leads the nation in uptake of solar energy

by editor | 21 May 2014 | Starfish

LISMORE is leading the nation in solar power with a higher percentage of households in the 2480 postcode using rooftop solar and/or hot water systems than anywhere else in Australia. A new report by the REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) Agents Association also finds...

Earth Healing Meditation 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 5:30pm

by editor | 14 May 2014 | Event

I am offering this meditation as a consequence of my concern for the way that the Earth is being impacted by climate change. There is a considerable amount of research that demonstrates the power of meditation/prayer to create peace in troubled communities and to...

Climate Change Roadshow 2014 rolls through Armidale with experts

by editor | 14 May 2014 | Event | 3 comments

Do you want to learn more about climate change? Do you have questions about climate change and how it is going to influence the Northern Tablelands? Come along and ask the experts! The Roadshow is being held at Armidale Thursday, 15th May from 4pm to 7pm (Armidale...

Threat to the Renewable Energy Target (RET) Submissions from public due 5pm Friday

by editor | 14 May 2014 | Energy, Event, SLAM

The Federal Government has called for another review of the Renewable Energy Target. Some fear this is intended to support a reduce or cancel the target. The easiest way to make a submission is to go to: Submissions must be made by 5pm on Friday 16 May 2014 The...

Grey Nomads tours: 3 Day Discovery Tour of Leard and Pilliga Forests 23 – 25 May

by editor | 14 May 2014 | AACSGaM, Event

Grey Nomads tour Friday, 23rd May to Sunday 25th May, 2014 This is a chance to see what we are trying to preserve and to observe the damage already done. Further information: Pat {mobile prefix oh four}28 725 852 Please pass the invitation on! Tour Registration DOC...

“Years of Living Dangerously” watch party 7pm 10 May at Kent House

by editor | 6 May 2014 | Climate, Event, SLAM

I don’t usually watch TV, but this show’s a biggie, and it hasn’t been screened in Australia yet. “Years of Living Dangerously”, is a potentially powerful tool to shift the conversation on climate change and bring it back to experiences...

AURG Tree Planting Day Sunday 11 May at Elizabeth Park

by editor | 6 May 2014 | AURG, Event

The AURG is holding a tree planting day in Elizabeth Park on Sunday 11 May. We have two small sites in the north west corner of Elizabeth Park 1 (straight north of the toilet block) and can do some fill in plantings on a previous planting site close by. Entry to the...

Got a spare 10 minutes: Armidale Local Food Project Survey

by editor | 6 May 2014 | SLAM

My name is Woody Jacobson. I am an intern at Armidale Dumaresq Council working with Carol Davies and the Environmental Sustainability Committee on a project about local food consumption. We want to find out more about what drives Armidale citizens to purchase local...

May Thursday Forum: Bulga Decision and Community Rights

by editor | 1 May 2014 | AACSGaM, Event, Monthly Forum

The David and Goliath tussle between locals of a Hunter Valley village and mining giant Rio Tinto will be the subject of an Armidale Forum on Thursday 1st May. Earlier this month the residents of Bulga, a small Hunter Valley village, surprised the mining industry with...

Just moved to Armidale? Welcome

by editor | 1 May 2014 | Event, SLAM

The Armidale Business Chamber is hosting Armidale’s first ever Welcome to Armidale event for new residents on May 1st 5.30 – 6.30pm. “The event will give people a chance to make new contacts and start building the friendships that make a new town...

Calling all ‘people of conscience’ Divestment Day starts this Friday

by editor | 1 May 2014 | SLAM

“People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 11th April 2014 On the 2nd and 3rd of May, over a thousand Australians around the country will do just that – by closing...

Community ‘ownership’ of windfarms is the future

by editor | 1 May 2014 | Starfish

With 4,000 direct jobs in rural NSW and over $6billion in investment in the pipeline you would expect politicians on the Southern Tablelands to be supporting jobs in the renewable energy industry. This industry has become one of the major employers in this region....

World Labyrinth Day – Walk As One at One, Sat 3 May 1pm

by user submitted | 29 Apr 2014 | Event, SLAM

World Labyrinth Day is on Saturday 3 May, and we will be walking the labyrinth painted on the grass in Civic Park, near the corner of Faulkner and Dumaresq Streets. Join us at 1 pm, to walk in reflective solidarity with other people around the world who believe that...

Knitting Nannas at Old Court House tuesday 11.30am – 1.30pm

by editor | 28 Apr 2014 | AACSGaM, Event

Pat and other members of Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas and Mining were arrested during recent actions to protect the Leard and Pilliga Forests from invasive and irresponsible coal and coal seam gas mining. The court day has been set for tomorrow Tuesday, 29th...

Latest IPCC Report Shows Way Forward

by editor | 28 Apr 2014 | SLAM | 1 comment

More than 700 climate scientists and other experts from more than 70 countries spent five years preparing the latest IPCC report (the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Their message – climate change is already happening and there are big risks and...

Mayor Arno coming down under for Community Energy Congress

by editor | 28 Apr 2014 | Energy

Mayor Arno Zengerle of Wildpoldsried, one of Germany’s most reknowned Energy Towns, is confirmed for the Community Energy Congress in Canberra (16 – 17 June). Arno Zengerle is the Mayor of Wildpoldsried, one of Germany’s leading renewable energy villages...

Act on Climate web site goes live

by user submitted | 14 Apr 2014 | Climate, SLAM

If you are interested in or have concerns about our climate, please register on the new web site for Act on Climate (aoc.org.au) which went live today, 14th April. If you have anything you would like to post on the site, all contributions are welcome. Contact:...

How would we recognise a truly sustainable enterprise if we saw one?

by editor | 14 Apr 2014 | Event

Institute for Rural Futures Research Seminar Time: Tuesday, 15 April, 2014, 1.00pm. Location: Institute for Rural Futures Seminar Room (Building CO12) Presenter: Professor Jeremy B. Williams* Background: Westpac was recently ranked no. 1 among the Corporate...

New SLA Action Group: Climate plus Report on CANA conference

by editor | 14 Apr 2014 | Climate, Event

Following the National Day of Climate Action, Colin Hargreaves is forming a new action group in the SLA called simply “Climate” in line with the names of other action groups. Colin Hargreaves is attending the CANA (Climate Action Network of Australia) public event...

It’s time we started selling sustainability

by editor | 14 Apr 2014 | Starfish

A woman walks toward a well through clouds of dust raised by cattle in the wadi outside Louri village in the Mao region of Chad. For generations, the people of this bone-dry region lived off their herds, but climate change has meant that the normally once-a-decade...