by editor | 5 Nov 2012 | SLAM
Congratulations Everyone! Armidale has won the Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) NSW 2012 Sustainable Communities Award. The award was presented on the weekend in Kyogle, winners of the award last year. This is a huge achievement, due the vision and work over many years...
by editor | 2 Nov 2012 | AACSGaM, Event, SLAM
Hi folks, This is the best chance we may ever have to put our views on coal and gas to the NSW Cabinet directly. Please make a big effort to get there on Monday 5th November and bring along as many people as you can. The entire NSW State Cabinet, including Premier...
by editor | 2 Nov 2012 | AACSGaM, Event
Dear All, A big year is drawing to a close and the next one is full of opportunities for renewing and expanding our campaign on Coal Seam Gas. There are wider opportunities too, with some members of our group concerned about other mining threats to our region. So,...
by editor | 1 Nov 2012 | Garden, SLAM |
Hi everyone there has been lots of progress in the garden in the last few weeks. Terry laid the pavers for the floor of the chook house that the wonderful Year 11 TAS boys made; they used recycled materials (funding from the HiCUB project) and the result looks great!...
by editor | 30 Oct 2012 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM
This film is a ‘must see’ for all keen gardeners. How can it be possible to grow heaps of great food without a whole lot of hard work? In Back to Eden, Paul Gautschi shows how he created his garden, following some key principles learned from closely...
by editor | 26 Oct 2012 | Garden, SLAM
Here it is! The wonderful chook shed provided generously by the Year 11 class at TAS. Thank you, guys!
by editor | 26 Oct 2012 | SLAM
On 24 October, people in 181 countries came together to speak with one voice on the most urgent issue of our times: the climate crisis. Through http://www.350.org, people in every corner of the planet coordinated the most widespread day of environmental action in the...
by editor | 26 Oct 2012 | SLAM
How can we feed the world—today and tomorrow? The biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers—spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, but selling the idea that we need their...
by user submitted | 26 Oct 2012 | SLAM
Dear Mr Burns, Re: Proposed Telstra mobile phone transmission tower, Drummond Park, Armidale I’m writing to submit my objection to the proposal advertised by Service Stream Mobile Communications on Behalf of Telstra to construct and maintain a tower and associated...
by editor | 25 Oct 2012 | AACSGaM
A new ecological study of the Pilliga Forest in north-west NSW has found it is a ‘Noahs Ark’ or refuge for many bird and mammal species that are declining across Australia. “Our study of the Pilliga Forest included intensive wildlife surveys plus the...
by user submitted | 25 Oct 2012 | SLAM
Hi, today is the closing date for submissions to the council on the proposed communications tower at North Hill. This is the letter I’ve sent. Armidale Dumaresq Council Dear Madam/Sir, I write to express my concerns about the proposed communications tower on...
by editor | 17 Oct 2012 | AACSGaM, Event
You can join the koalas at Leard Forest for an afternoon of family fun on Sunday October 21 from 11am to 3pm. Kids, bring your favourite bear, there will be prizes for most loved teddy bear or soft toy and best dressed bear. There will be discovery walks, games,...
by editor | 17 Oct 2012 | AACSGaM, Event, Garden
Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas is organising a celebration of community spirit to protest against coal and coal seam gas mining during the Lock the Gate National Week of Action from October 13 to 21. The event will be held at the Armidale Community Garden on...
by editor | 17 Oct 2012 | AURG, Event, SLAM
For all who missed today massive tree planting and Mental Health Month celebrations here are some stats for the day. We planted 2622 plants today and we had 202 people register on our sheets for the day. Having been in the AURG for almost all our working bees over...
by editor | 17 Oct 2012 | Event, Local Food, SLAM
Calling all of those keen backyard vegie growers out there – have you thought of selling your surplus vegies through the ALF stall at the Armidale Farmers’ Market and Car Boot Sale? A bunch or two of silverbeet, a bunch of carrots, one or two lettuces; everyone...
by editor | 16 Oct 2012 | SLAM
Joe Romm writer for the website Think Progress (A Center for American Progress Action Fund project) has written an article on the impacts of the US government having policy, or no policy, on climate change.
by editor | 10 Oct 2012 | AACSGaM, Event, SLAM
In preparation for the Lock the Gate National Week of Action from 13th to 21st October, Progressive Cinema will be screening The Sky is Pink by Josh Fox, and Battle for a CSG Free Northern Rivers, at 7:30pm on Wednesday, 10th October, at Turntables Restaurant at the...
by editor | 10 Oct 2012 | AURG, Event
October’s working bee with Armidale Urban Rivercare Group (AURG) will be a focus for Mental Health Month activities next Sunday (14 October) in the creek lands. The theme of Celebrate, Connect, Grow, for this year’s Mental Health Month, means that a...
by user submitted | 8 Oct 2012 | AACSGaM, Event, SLAM
Dear Member Further to my advice in October about plans to mount periodic protests and demonstrations against AGL locally, I am able to advise that the first such action is planned as part of the Lock the Gate National Week of Action and will happen on World Food Day,...
by editor | 2 Oct 2012 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM
What happens to all that waste that gets produced each day? Where does it all go? How well are we dealing with all that stuff that we don’t want? We chuck it away, or flush it down the loo, but on a finite planet there really isn’t any ‘away’,...
by user submitted | 2 Oct 2012 | SLAM
Transition Voice covers peak oil, climate change and economic crisis along with the global Transition movement as society’s most promising response. We deal with the issues that the Transition movement cares about. We also offer analysis on people and progress in the...
by editor | 20 Sep 2012 | AURG, Event, SNELC
Check out all the great Woodland Week activities occuring from 20th – 28th September 2012! Children of Treefest – Friday 21st September [URALLA] Join land managers, revegetators and landcarers to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Treefest. See tree...
by editor | 20 Sep 2012 | Event, SLAM, Transport
On Saturday 22 September at 1pm the Armidale Cycling Club invites you to come and try sports cycling at the Traffic Education Centre (10 Mann St). Go to armidalecyclingclub.org for more info.
by editor | 20 Sep 2012 | Event, SLAM
This month we’re trialling two shared meals – an “adult-friendly” one at Graham Mackay’s place this Friday (14th) and a “family-friendly”one at Cathie’s on Saturday 22nd. They will both start at 6.30, although families...
by editor | 19 Sep 2012 | Event, SLAM, Transport
On Sunday 23 September at 10.30am you can try mountain biking at the Pine Forest with New England Mountain Bikers Go to nemtb.com.au for more info.
