by editor | 25 Feb 2011 | Event, Meeting Minutes
At 6pm at SNELCC Office Present: Joc Coventry (chair), Michelle Owens, Patsy Asch, Jo Leoni, Bar Finch (minutes), Robyn Newberry. Apologies: Helen Webb, Iain MacKay. Minutes of previous meeting 26.1.11 adopted. Business Arising Pats to check out solar display at...
by editor | 23 Feb 2011 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM
Community Wind Farm for New England? As part of the New England Community Wind Farm Feasibility Study, a public forum will be held in the Armidale Town Hall on Tuesday 1st March at 7pm. The meeting will be hosted by Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) as part of their...
by editor | 23 Feb 2011 | Autumn Festival, Event
The Armidale Autumn Parade is on Saturday 19th of March. We need lots of people for our award winning community float. The theme this year for our parade entry is ‘Where in the world does our food come from?’. We will amass at 93 Brown Street on Wednesday...
by editor | 23 Feb 2011 | Event
There will be only one screening, 7pm Thursday February 24th at the Belgrave Twin Cinema. GASLAND is an award-winning documentary about the unbridled extraction of natural gas in the USA. When Josh Fox, a theatre director and part-time banjo player, is approached by a...
by editor | 22 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM
The Gas Rush, the Four Corners program presented by Kerry O’Brien on Monday 21 February, is another frightening indictment of the rapidly expanding gas mining industry in Australia. A coalition is forming to call a halt to the ‘gas rush’. You can...
by editor | 20 Feb 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM
Whatever you do, don’t miss ALF’s 3rd Home-grown Garden Tour on the first weekend in March. This is a great opportunity to see 10 productive backyard gardens in Armidale and gather heaps of good ideas and useful info about compost, bees, worm farms, fruit...
by editor | 18 Feb 2011 | Event
Hiya everybody! thought you might be interested in participating in a very special research program developed by the CSIRO. It’s called Energymark! In the next couple of weeks I will be holding the first group get-together for all who are interested in getting...
by editor | 9 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM
The AURG is undertaking a maintenance day at the Rologas Playing Fields (the old Wicklow area!) and surrounding area plantings (Holmes Ave and Douglas St). This will involve weeding in and around plants and repairing stakes and cartons as required. We chose this area...
by editor | 9 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM
SLA will have a ‘float’ (on foot) in the Autumn Festival Parade with a colourful message about local food. It will involve ‘massed’ wheelbarrows, and some shopping trolleys. The overall theme for the Parade is “Around the World in Eighty Floats”, and the SLA take on...
by editor | 9 Feb 2011 | Event
“Business Energy ~ the bottom line” …an informative session about the issue of energy prices for small & medium business owners. Electricity prices are set to rise dramatically over the next few years making this is a valuable information evening for anybody...
by editor | 9 Feb 2011 | Event, SLAM
The NSW Government is offering a program to help families reduce their power bills. Armidale Dumaresq Council has organised a presentation at Kent House on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH from 12:30-2pm. 50 Households will be offered a free home audit, as well as stand-by...
by editor | 9 Feb 2011 | SLAM
You may have seen the film about FaceBook called The Social Network. Personally I didn’t like it, I thought it was really OTT (over the top). However I do like acronyms, like FB (FaceBook), and I do just like FB period, for keeping abreast of what friends are up...
by editor | 9 Feb 2011 | Event
Slow Food New England will once again be hosting the Sunday lunch at this year’s Wool Expo. This will be a terrific opportunity to celebrate our best local produce and wines, as well as enjoying a fabulous fashion show and other entertainment. Numbers will be...
by editor | 7 Feb 2011 | SLAM
GetUp! has launched a campaign to oppose the Federal Government’s intention to cut $250 million from their Solar Flagships program, a program meant to fund large-scale solar power stations in Australia. GetUp! recommends other savings, for example: $600 million...
by editor | 31 Jan 2011 | SLAM
Sustainable Living Armidale has had a request from an Energy Management student at the University of Otago in New Zealand who is carrying out a summer research project on Transition Initiatives. She is conducting a short survey of Transition group members, and invites...
by editor | 28 Jan 2011 | SLAM
I send this message to your group to alert you to a current committee recruitment process currently being run by Council and your group has been suggested as an environmental group that could be the community voice in that regard on the committee. Armidale Dumaresq...
by editor | 28 Jan 2011 | Event, Monthly Forum, SLAM
When it comes to sustainability there’s nothing more critical than food, and our current food system is a lot less resilient than we might suppose. It has led to farmers being driven off their land by low returns and rising costs, soils losing their fertility...
by editor | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, Local Food, SLAM
Venue: Armidale Community Cottage, 3 Alexander St, Armidale New participants are always welcome. Just come along to a meeting, or contact Jo Leoni for further information. We try to keep the meeting as brief as possible and then people can stay and socialise longer if...
by editor | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, SLAM
ArmLETS is having it’s first get-together next Wednesday afternoon and would love you to come along. Now that we have exceeded 20 members, we thought it would be nice to have a get together. If you are wanting a job done, it’s much easier to ask someone...
by editor | 27 Jan 2011 | Event, SLAM
There will be a get together at 5:30 on Friday 4th February at 163 Barney St to plan the SLA float for this year’s Autumn Festival. We have the basics of an idea, so that’s a good start, now all we need is some group creativity to make it work!
by editor | 27 Jan 2011 | 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 Farmers’ Market? A bunch or two of silverbeet, a bunch of carrots, one or two lettuces; everyone brings along whatever...
by editor | 24 Jan 2011 | SLAM
While our children played (and argued!) on the trampoline at Helen and Terry’s place last Sunday, some members of the Heart and Soul group sat on the grass beside the kids to chat about ways to build a family-friendly community in a transition town. We talked about...
by editor | 29 Dec 2010 | Event, Local Food, SLAM
Our stall will be operating again this Sunday the 2nd of January and we encourage more growers to participate. Produce this weekend will include garlic, artichokes, snow peas, herbs, berries, and big red & brown onions, as well as many others. We hope to see you...
by editor | 8 Dec 2010 | SLAM
LETS is active in Armidale again and is looking for new members! Local Energy Trading Systems (LETS) are locally initiated, democratically organised, not-for-profit community enterprises which provide a community information service and record transactions of members...
by editor | 1 Dec 2010 | Event, Monthly Forum
The popular Tuesday Forum series held by Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) will wind up the year on December 7th with an open gathering that’s more of a party than a forum. “We’ve had a very active year, with participation in big community events like SLEX and the...
