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…
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…
Zero Emissions Byron comms team member Katrina Shields shared some images of EVs she saw on her recent Italy trip last week – but they’re not something you can expect to see here any time soon.
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…
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…