A Perth-based company has found a new way of processing the versatile plant and has developed building panels to create affordable, carbon negative housing. Mirreco chief executive Richard Evans said the company plans to build a hemp micro-home to show the benefits of using hemp in housing (Pictured – a Culburra hemp […]
Come Saturday morning the phone will ring and Mum will be on the other end. At 90, she’s still sharp upstairs but the years have taken their toll in other ways. She needs a stick to ward off the wobbles that might see her take a catastrophic tumble, makes mental […]
Ditching fossil fuels to go 100 per cent renewable is a dream within reach – thanks to new tech that keep things humming even when wind and sun aren’t there Photo: Roberto Cigna By Peter Fairley TO STAND any chance of halting runaway climate change, we need to squelch carbon […]
Liverpool plains farmer Megan Kuhn says cows are being slaughtered because there is no way of feeding them after years of extreme weather by Lisa Cox 10 Jun 2018 In the south-west corner of NSW’s Liverpool plains, in an area called Bundella, farmer Megan Kuhn runs beef cattle and merino […]
The Great Koala National Park (GKNP) is an idea that has been floating about since mid-2014 when it was picked up by then NSW Opposition Environment Spokesperson Luke Foley. Mr Foley is now, of course, Leader of the Opposition and is running to be Premier in the March 2019 state […]
A shark closes in on the experimental setup Andrew Fox, the Fox Shark Research Foundation Scared of sharks? Fitting an electric device to your surfboard could halve your risk of getting munched. By Alice Klein Shark attacks are rare but increasingly common, climbing from about 20 to 80 global cases […]
Town hall style public meetings at Bellingen on Sunday 3 June (3.00 pm at the Bellingen Memorial Hall) and at Coffs Harbour on 14 June (6.30 PM Cavanbah Centre) will be told that state forests of the Coffs Harbour and Bellingen regions will be hardest hit by the State Governments […]
The Berejiklian Government’s ‘NSW Koala Strategy’ cherry-picked facts, advisors and resolutions to the declining koala population, writes Sue Arnold. IN WHAT SURELY must be one of the most outrageous attempts to fool the public into believing the NSW Government cares about koalas, the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has released the […]
A short audio clip is completely puzzling the world and pitting friend against friend in the online debate. What is the voice saying – is it Yanny or is it Laurel? Some people think they hear the word “Laurel” while others are convinced it says “Yanny.” It’s the most perplexing […]
The Bellingen Environment Centre (BEC) argues that the Coffs Harbour and Bellingen regions will be hit hard by the NSW Government’s recent announcement it will sacrifice old growth, koala and other threatened species habitat and stream protection in native forests to prop up the ailing timber industry. “The Existing Regional […]