Commercial market gardening workshop #2
Follow-up workshop, continuing on from the successful workshop held on 26 September 2010. Venue: Eureka farm, Fleming Drive, Laffing Waters Call Ross Macindoe on 6331 6320 for more information.
The case for wind power, with Jonathon Upson, Infigen Energy
A key player in wind farm energy is coming to town. Jonathan Upson, Senior Development Manager of Infigen Energy, will address a public meeting at the Bathurst RSL on Thursday, April 28 at 5pm. Jonathon Upson will talk about the success of wind energy overseas, give a brief overview of the technology and “explode wind…
Wood fired pizza oven workshop
Come to Rahamim and see Patrick Forman show us how to build a wood fired pizza oven!!! Cost $50 See http://rahamim.org.au/Programs/UpComingEvents/tabid/1052/Default.aspx for more details
Building and Energy APT meeting
Joint meeting of the Building APT and Energy APT at the staff room on the ground floor of Allen House, CSU starting at 5 pm. For more details contact Bob Hill or Iain Townsend.
Energy APT and Building APT combined meeting
Venue: CSU Allen House lounge Convenor: Iain Townsend
IPCC predicts disaster – unless we change
Communicating about our climate crisis just keeps getting tougher. It doesn’t matter that the people who do the science on our future tell us we’ve got a problem we really don’t have time in our busy lives to listen. The experts’ increasingly alarming reports are ignored or ridiculed by mass media mouthpieces. Day in day…
Where does your food come from? 17 December 2013
Do you know where your food comes from? We love our food Our obsession with food appears to be growing. This year nearly four million people watched two men vie for the position of TV’s Master Chef. Children are tuning in to the culinary arts as never before. We are all becoming so much more…
Why we like wind power – December 11, 2013
Why we like wind power … Wind turbines provide valuable income to farmers and jobs and investment in regional areas. Flyers Creek Wind Farm would offer 100 fulltime equivalent construction jobs and 5 permanent jobs. Truth is, old energy is in decline, and job opportunities were eclipsed by renewables a decade ago. As early as…
The cost of carbon – fires burning in NSW – October 28, 2013
With fires still burning across New South Wales, it’s time to have a look at the role climate change might have played. Are the conditions we’re seeing natural variation, or part of a long-term trend? Certainly people in the Blue Mountains and Lithgow have never experienced anything like it. Has bushfire risk increased due to…
Flyers Creek Wind Farm recommended for Approval
MEDIA RELEASE RELEASED BY CENREC – 27/11/13 Central NSW Renewable Energy Cooperative (CENREC) today welcomed the recommendation by the NSW Planning Department for approval of the Flyers Creek Windfarm. The Department of Planning has recommended that the project be approved stating that it “is satisfied that the project can achieve acceptable amenity, health and environmental…