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Marine Rescue NSW units have busy finish to Autumn

Marine Rescue NSW volunteers were involved in 252 rescue missions in May, returning 398 people safely to shore.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 13

Greens call for two-year rent freeze 

A new Essential Guardian poll shows 60 per cent of Australians support a freeze on rental increases.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 2

Mad Hatter’s tea party saves koalas for one more day

This morning at the entrance to the Yarratt State Forest, near Taree, a Mad Hatter’s tea party celebrating World Environment Day on a logging road, stopped a truck heading into the forest.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 1

Expect saltwater on Ballina roads during king tides

Ballina Shire Council is encouraging motorists to drive safely over the coming days with king tides leading to minor flooding of some local roads. 
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Political CommentDavid Heilpern - 4

When western medicine doesn’t work 

Once I finally admitted I needed help with vicarious trauma, I tried a few techniques to ease my troubled mind. 
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Local NewsMia Armitage - 3

60% of Ballina Council investments in fossil fuel aligned companies

The Ballina Shire Council had more than $60 million invested in fossil fuel aligned companies on behalf of ratepayers as of the end of April 2023.
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Byron EchoP Gumley, Wilsons Creek - 0

Vaccinating koalas

It is interesting to read that the program of catching and vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydial disease is happening...
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Sustainability Supplements

Hints for living a sustainable life



Look, we got carried away about sustainability. We started with a few stories about the simple life and it grew into a series of features, and then into an annual publication is in its own right. Here you can learn about worm farming, electric vehicles, how fabulous the ocean is, growing organic food, how to save money when building or retrofitting a house, and maybe incidentally do the planet a few favours. It’s a DIY manual for living on Earth like there isn’t a second one.

Now in its eleventh year, The Echo‘s annual Sustainability supplement is a much anticipated resource for those who would like to tread lightly on this planet.

The current and all past editions are collected here on this page.

Sustainability 2023

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Sustainability 2022

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Sustainability 2021


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Sustainability 2019


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Sustainability 2018


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Sustainability 2017


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Sustainability 2016


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Sustainability 2015

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Your Sustainable Community 2014

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Your Sustainable Community 2013

Your Sustainable Community 2012

Your Sustainable Community 2011

Your Sustainable Community 2010

Your Sustainable Community 2009

Local News

Reconciliation and connection for brekky at Ballina Public School

Mia Armitage - 0
National Reconciliation Week may be over but community connection efforts are to continue indefinitely at Ballina Public School, with Friday morning family breakfast a new weekly triumph.
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Byron Echo

Vaccinating koalas

P Gumley, Wilsons Creek - 0
It is interesting to read that the program of catching and vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydial disease is happening in the Northern Rivers region. If...
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Byron Echo

‘Peace Train’ 

Samaya Askill, Mullumbimby - 0
‘…Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has begun…’  From ‘Peace Train’ by Cat Stevens. If having imagination and vision...
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Israel/Palestine

David Gilet, Byron Bay - 0
As usual Dany Wakil presents his distorted view of the Palestine/Israel conflict. His assertion that Arabs expelled other Arabs from their own lands to...
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Marine Rescue NSW units have busy finish to Autumn

Local News Paul Bibby - 0
Marine Rescue NSW volunteers were involved in 252 rescue missions in May, returning 398 people safely to shore.
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Reconciliation and connection for brekky at Ballina Public School

Local News Mia Armitage - 0
National Reconciliation Week may be over but community connection efforts are to continue indefinitely at Ballina Public School, with Friday morning family breakfast a new weekly triumph.
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Sustainable fashion course in Byron this season

Byron Echo Mia Armitage - 0
Born in Byron, bred in a sweatshop, made from earth-destroying parts and brought back to you with copious carbon miles… it’s fast fashion, but it’s not a good look.
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Have you seen Jordyn?

Local News The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a woman and baby missing from Wilson's Creek, near Mullumbimby.
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Kingscliff’s amenity or company profit?

Local News The Echo - 13
Kingscliff property developer Gales Holgins is seeking to increase truck movements by bringing in fill from the M1 road works rather than using fill from the development site. But Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association say that the impact on residents and business is too high a cost to pay.
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Car mania clogs Mullumbimby

Byron Echo The Echo - 36
It was a fatal error – driving half a kilometre into Mullumbimby to pick up a carton of milk. My partner drove while I conducted reconnaissance for that elusive parking spot. 
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Byron Shire Mayor, staff mute over Council court loss

Byron Echo Hans Lovejoy - 0
Byron Mayor, Simon Richardson (Greens), is again remaining mute over questions around Council’s court loss, this time over a fencing dispute in Suffolk Park.
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Local concert series organiser hit with $5,000 fine

Local News Paul Bibby - 15
When local musician Lisa Hunt arrived for a meeting with police last Thursday she was hoping for a somewhat friendlier reception than she had received on the last occasion.
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