Zero Emissions Byron: Who we are and what we’ve been doing
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Zero Emissions Byron: Who we are and what we’ve been doing

What exactly is Zero Emissions Byron, and what have we been doing, you may ask? Zero Emissions Byron (or as well call it, ZEB) was initiated in March 2015 as a collaboration between the Byron Shire Community, the Byron Shire Council, Beyond Zero Emissions, and the Centre for Social Change. The organisation’s initial focus was…

Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 7 – Assisted Regeneration – Dave Rawlins
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Decade Of Ecological Restoration Series – Episode 7 – Assisted Regeneration – Dave Rawlins

Dave Rawlins is a bush regenerator and ecologist working on a property in the headwaters of Marshalls Creek at the Pocket. The 40 ha property was once cleared for bananas and grazed. It was heavily run down being degraded from intact rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest to areas of bare soils and landslips. The current…

Good Fire Live – Cultural Burning brought to you by ZEB & the Ingrained Foundation
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Good Fire Live – Cultural Burning brought to you by ZEB & the Ingrained Foundation

Sunday May 28th was a huge hit! Zero Emissions Byron presented a day long program that explained and demonstrated the Good Fire cultural burning project to a sold out crowd at a property on the Koonyum Range.  In attendance were local landholders of open forest country, academics, restoration professionals, council staff, a lone councillor and…

Farmers’ questions answered about electric vehicles and tractors
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Farmers’ questions answered about electric vehicles and tractors

Farmers for Climate Action and Solar Citizens teamed up on Thursday night at Blue Fattoria Farm outside Lismore to talk to local farmers about how electrifying transport can help stop climate change. Stuart Watson, a former Essential Energy engineer and owner of a solar company business in Port Macquarie spoke about his early efforts converting…