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Please support Zero Emissions Byron
NOW is a time to step up the action. Our ability to fundraise has been severely curtailed during COVID and the floods. Your donation – of any size – can support us in the next few months to: Stage a huge Electric Vehicle Expo at Bangalow showgrounds on 11 September Stimulate appropriate cultural ‘cool burns’…
Good Fire Healthy Country 2023
The restoration of Good Fire in Byron Shire will improve community bushfire safety, restore dormant carbon sequestration, conserve biodiversity, and continue Aboriginal connection to Country. Good Fire – Healthy Country, Supporting Information for Good Fire Restoration Plans shows how commitment to action on climate change knits the practices of our First Nations peoples into contemporary…
Summer is Coming! Get your home ready to stay cool:)
by Sebastian Crangle For those of us who don’t live in homes designed from the outset for energy efficiency There are actions we can take to prevent them from: a) becoming uncomfortably hot in summer, and/or b) needing large amounts of energy to keep them cool. Creating an energy-efficient home calls for measures beyond typical…
Decade of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 3 – Native Regeneration on Mevlana Community
Wren met with Michael Murray, shareholder of Mevlana for 25 years, at the eastern end of the community lands where a large coastal melaleuca swamp forest has been regenerated. “We removed camphor, lantana and other weeds so that the native vegetation could again dominate the site” Like other wetland forest ecosystems, a large amount of…
THE DECLINE OF ANTARCTIC SEA ICE AS A FIVE-SIGMA EVENT
It has been confirmed that during the winter of 2023, the sea ice around Antarctica is in sharp decline. Experts are now concerned it may not recover. Why is sea ice important? What has it got to do with a Five-Sigma Event? This might hurt your brain but hang in there… First and simply, sea…
