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Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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Katie Milne responds to Tweed’s draft housing and employment strategy

The former mayor of Tweed Shire Council, Kate Milne, has shared her submission to Tweed's Draft Growth Management Housing & Employment Strategy.
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Everyone’s welcome at the House of Spaghetti

Spaghetti Circus is throwing open the doors of its Mullumbimby home later this month, presenting its 2026 Annual Show, House of Spaghetti, at the Mullumbimby Showground from Friday 28 to Sunday 30 August. Five shows over three days, with every student on stage.
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The Good LifeThe Echo - 0

No food fraud at the farmers’ market

Food fraud has made headlines recently after an investigation by ABC program Four Corners found the issue is rampant in major supermarket aisles in Australia.
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Perk up, Byron – spring is coming

Winter is on its way out, and The Roadhouse is throwing open the precinct to celebrate.
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Entertainment NewsThe Echo - 0

Brisbane band awake in Byron

Don’t let the name fool you – Vancouver Sleep Clinic (VSC), who are returning for their first Australian show in half a decade, are not Canadian!
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Rail and community consultation

The first stage of the Casino to Murwillumbah railway was opened in 1894 and shortly after the line was...
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Stories about "Beyond Zero Emissions":

Fossil free future needs government and business to step up

National News The Echo - 0
The Australian government may continue to fantasise that they don't need to reduce the production of fossil fuels but businesses are moving to reduce their carbon footprints without them. 
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Transition

Byron Echo The Echo - 1
Sapoty Brook, Wilsons Creek In response to Geraldine Crumpton’s letter (20 January), Byron Shire’s North Coast Climate Action Group formed one of the first transition...
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Plan to transition Byron shire to zero carbon

Local News The Echo - 6
‘Byron Shire is well placed to bring to life a vision where carbon use can be reduced to zero in 10 years’, predicts Professor David Hood.
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Byron has a place at the table at climate conference

Local News The Echo - 5
Byron mayor Simon Richardson flew out to Paris on Saturday to join COP21 and to share some of the shire’s experiences in planning for a zero carbon future.
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Forum seeks practical ways to reduce carbon emissions

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 2
While Australian governments are undermining the renewable-energy sector, there’s positive action from local not-for-profit groups and Byron Shire Council.
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Byron council in ‘power exchange’ trial

Local News Chris Dobney - 0
Byron Shire Council is part of a unique experiment that will see power generated at its sports and cultural complex hitch a ride on the grid to be consumed at the sewerage treatment plant down the road.
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Full steam ahead for Byron’s zero emissions future

Local News Chris Dobney - 2
Byron Council yesterday voted to support the mayor’s stated ambition to become Australia’s first ‘zero emissions community’ after a relatively low-key debate.
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Zero emissions beyond a joke

Letters The Echo - 1
Edward Kent, Suffolk Park. Zero emissions? What a joke! Not that I have an issue with the goal, but Byron? Beneath the hippy Shangri-la marketing, Byron is a small town that can’t figure out such basics as toilet blocks, crosswalks, potholes, tree planting and green bins.
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Byron Shire aims to lead Australia on zero emissions plan

Articles & Columns The Echo - 1
Byron Shire is aiming to become the first region in Australia to become ‘net zero emissions’, with a goal to reduce emissions from energy, transport, buildings, waste and land use to zero within 10 years, writes Giles Parkinson.
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High speed rail

Letters The Echo - 2
Louise Doran, Ocean Shores. The study into High Speed Rail (HSR) by the clean-energy consultancy Beyond Zero Emissions argues the east coast network would cost $84 billion to build and could pay for itself in 40 years. This study includes a station at Lismore, which would serve locals as well as the five million national and international visitors to the region.
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Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

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Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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Katie Milne responds to Tweed’s draft housing and employment strategy

The Echo - 0
The former mayor of Tweed Shire Council, Kate Milne, has shared her submission to Tweed's Draft Growth Management Housing & Employment Strategy.
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