Category: Renewable Energy

Living for the Future Home Expo

Saturday, 16 September 2017 A free, family-friendly event offering a one-stop-shop of stalls and practical workshops to help people embrace sustainable living principles, find out more about smart housing designs and renovations to help create more affordable and environmentally-friendly homes and lifestyles in the Tweed. Be inspired and informed: See the winners announced for the 2017…

Build it Local Design Competition

Build it Local challenges entrants to design a family home in a typical suburban context, using approved and/or non-approved materials sourced from our collective backyard in the Northern Rivers region to reduce the embodied footprint of the build. The theme also extends to using local labour, an owner builder model or a combination of the…

Northern Rivers solar & batteries community bulk buy

Love clean renewable energy as much as we do? Here’s an opportunity to be a part of the uptake of renewables right here in the Northern Rivers. This April, the Northern Rivers will have it’s very own community bulk buy for solar and batteries – making the process easy and accessible, at lower prices. Find out…

North Coast Energy Forum 2016 – It’s a wrap!

Welcome to the final NCEF newsletter for 2016, and for a while thereafter. First of all, a huge thank you to everyone involved in this year’s forum – the sponsors, speakers, organising committee, and of course all of you who attended. As with previous years we had over 100 people there, despite a paucity of…

Solar citizens – Northern Rivers 100% Renewables Forum

Tuesday 29th November, 6:30-8:30 pm (doors open at 6pm).  Lismore City Hall, 1 Bounty St, Lismore, NSW.  RSVP here. This event is part of our 100% Renewables Roadshow, with forums in towns and cities across the country. It will feature a presentation of the Homegrown Power Plan — a comprehensive policy road map designed by…

NSW Climate Change Policy Framework released

The policy sets two aspirational objectives: Achieving net zero emissions by 2050. NSW being more resilient to a changing climate. The NSW government has also announced a $500 million funding package and released two draft climate change and energy savings documents for public consultation: Draft Climate Change Fund Strategic Plan A Plan to Save NSW…

2016 North Coast Energy Forum

Theme: “The local energy revolution: Solar plus batteries plus us”. Friday, 25 November, 2016 The North Coast Energy Forum was established in 2010 to drive the shift to a sustainable energy system for the NSW North Coast. Every year over 100 representatives of industry, government and the community come together to plan how to make this…

Home Expo – Living for the Future 2016

Saturday 3 September 2016 from 9am – 2pm, Seagulls Club, Gollan Drive, Tweed Heads West.  A one-stop-shop of local suppliers and inspirers with ideas and solutions for more sustainable living in the Tweed. The Expo aims to help people: save costs be energy and water efficient reuse resources and reduce waste enhance the local environment…

Renewables in agriculture workshop

Find out how your farm business can benefit from clean energy technologies to move water.  Learn from industry experts and solar providers about selecting the right solar powered pump for your agricultural needs. Speakers will explain what government incentives are available, top tips on energy efficient pumps and how to plan for future climate variability.…

CEC on Geo-Engineering, Fluoride, EMR, nano-particles etc

The Caldera Environment Centre The CEC is a serious environmental organisation and is concerned with tangible environmental issues such as land-clearance, illegal development, and enforcement of environmental regulation. The current energy being devoted to issues such as geo-engineering, chem-trails, fluoride and other conspiracy theories is not something we support in any way at all. The…

Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg’s “Consensus Centre”

The University of Western Australia announced last Friday that it would no longer house Danish climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg’s “Consensus Centre” – a fantastic outcome for science. Unfortunately, Lomborg’s Centre is still trying to establish itself in Australia, and this is deeply troubling. We’re concerned that the Centre would be focused on spreading misinformation presented…

Technology To Decommission Fukushima Needs To Be Invented: Tepco

By Richard Wilcox Global Research, April 06, 2015 Activist Post 5 April 2015 Anyone with a brain could have told you back in 2011 at the time of the Fukushima nuclear triple meltdown that Tokyo Electric (Tepco) was lying about the true condition of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 (“Dai-ichi”). Four years later,…

Sustainable Energy Solutions

Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change Stephen Bygrave reviews this new bookMark Diesendorf, Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales, has a new book, Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change. I’ve had the opportunity to have a quick read and it is a nice complement and…