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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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LettersChris Abraham, Mullumbimby - 0

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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Letters Lydia Kindred, NRRL Director/Secretary - 0

On rail

Northern Rivers Railway Restoration: Licensing Progress: Northern Rivers Rail Ltd (NRRL) and Northern Regional Railway Company (NRRC) are highly...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Two rescues in one day

Last Friday, Queensland Government Air (QGAir) Rescue 500 was tasked with two separate search and rescues in Tallebudgera Valley.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Troubled Hastings Point sewage plant upgrade goes back to the community

A long-running battle over the future of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has entered another round, with Tweed Council putting its preferred upgrade option back before the community.
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Byron EchoThe Echo - 0

A hole in one!

Mullumbimby Golf Club’s Cody Watego get a hole in one.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Interhall Committee volunteers’ hazard update

As the weather warms up, so too are community volunteers. In mid August regional volunteers gathered at Clunes for the quarterly Interhall Committee meeting.
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Stories about "Planet Watch":

Planet Watch – Top three environmental issues

Planet Watch Willow Hallgren - 8
With so many environmental crises occurring, it’s hard to focus on just three issues to provide an update to Planet Watch readers – but here's our top three...
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Planet Watch: Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?

Planet Watch David Lowe - 21
There's been a lot of hot air in the media recently about hydrogen. The problem is that there's hydrogen and then there's hydrogen.
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Planet Watch: the great global experiment

Planet Watch David Lowe - 9
One hidden gift of this pandemic is time to reflect. As the meme goes, 'It's like the Earth just sent us all to our rooms to think about what we've done'.
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Planet Watch: Climate change and disease

Planet Watch Willow Hallgren - 13
As we find ourselves in the midst of a one-in-100-year global pandemic, now is the time to reflect on the way in which human activities help bring about the creation of new diseases and the spread of existing diseases.
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Be the change you want to see

Local News The Echo - 0
The Rainforest 4 Foundation has been at the forefront of positive action, including planting rainforest trees to restore fire-devastated rainforests and buying back land in the Daintree.
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Planet Watch: Emergency on planet Earth

Planet Watch Willow Hallgren - 1
The knowledge of both anthropogenic climate change and the term ‘biodiversity’ have profoundly reshaped both our behaviour and the way in which humans see ourselves in relation to our environment.
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Planet Watch: A hot topic – Energy in the age of global warming

Planet Watch Willow Hallgren - 5
Australians have now experienced some of the devastating impacts of what a global heating of just one degree looks like. We must decarbonise our economy, and the earlier we do this, the less painful and costly it is going to be.
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Planet Watch: Drowning not waving – tales from a dying ocean

Planet Watch Willow Hallgren - 16
This month Planet Watch explores how climate change will affect the oceans and its creatures.
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Local News

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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Local News

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

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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Local News

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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