Tag: Sustainability
Singleton Council leads the way in sustainability initiatives
As its commitment to sustainability grows, Singleton Council’s greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs continue to shrink as small solar farms are installed at the Sewer Treatment Plant, Obanvale Water Treatment Plant and the Army Pump Station.
Prince William urges people to help repair planet
Prince William will call for society to "unite in repairing our planet" at the first awards ceremony for his environmental prize.
Hotel trash to transform into five-star treasure
Crystalbrook Kingsley will donate its restaurant and bar waste to the University of Newcastle’s Food Science Research Group.
New circular tourism set to Go
Dr Phoebe Everingham and Newcastle Greens candidate Sinead Francis-Coan are fast becoming the city’s off the beaten track tour taste-testers.
Combining their extensive overseas travel experience with insider local knowledge , the pair...
Urban Hum bring buzz to backyard beekeeping
They are in almost every backyard in Newcastle. In fact in 26 inner city suburbs they live enmasse - up to 80,000 of them are keeping busy sustaining ecosystems.
For Urban Hum founders...
Maitland City Council joins Cities Power Partnership
Maitland City Council is the latest organisation to link up with an Australian Climate Council (ACC) initiative.
Councillors recently voted to join the Cities Power Partnership (CPP), which seeks to celebrate and accelerate...
Plant-based preschool to provide a sustainable approach
A new preschool is set to provide an ethos of environmental responsibility.
The Barnsley-based Sustainable Play Preschool will open this autumn and hopes to share the ideas of sustainable living and plant-based eating...
Nicole takes a stand against period poverty
Nicole Cooney is attempting to make a difference in the fight against period poverty.
Period poverty occurs when women don’t have the proper access to sanitary products, or hygienic spaces in which to...