$4.7m upgrade for Minnamurra Rainforest
The recent State Budget has allocated $4.7 million in capital funding over three years to upgrade the Minnamurra Rainforest Centre and its network of paths in Budderoo National Park. Gareth […]
Category Archives: Environment
Opposition voices heard at Public Hearing
A Public Hearing organised to get community feedback on planning proposals to enable the sell-off of a section of Illuka Reserve at Kiama Downs, a developed block in O’Connell Place, […]
Kiama Farmers’ Market first to go plastic free
The fulfillment of a long held ambition by the Kiama Farmers’ Market to go plastic and polystyrene free will be the focus this year’s local World Environment Day commemorations. The […]
Jones Beach work begins
The formation of a Land Care group for Jones Beach is the first step in addressing the management of the beach, according to Gino Belsito, Council’s Director of Engineering and […]
Homegrown solution to a dirty solar problem
Kiama inventor and clean energy advocate, Edwin Humphries, is looking to make Kiama home to a manufacturing facility for his automated solar panel cleaning system. He and his business partner […]
Beach erosion: an alternative view
As a counterbalance to an article in our last edition, the Kiama Greens have been in touch to present an alternative view: Jones Beach Response Kiama Greens, along with support […]
Climate activist’s Kiama stop on kayak trek to Canberra
On New Years Day Australian climate activist Steve Posselt set off on his kayak from Ballina. His goal is to journey 1,200 kilometres down the coast to Moruya, and then […]
Time to stop the Jones Beach erosion
Paradoxically, members of BeachCare Kiama believe that measures put in place to stabilise Jones Beach after major storms in 1974 are now responsible for a litany of on-going problems. “Time […]
South Gerringong pops up again
Mayor Mark Honey says he was dumbfounded when he read the Department of Planning’s update of its Illawarra-Shoalhaven Urban Development Program and saw that there are 350 greenfield sites designated […]
There’s something new in the water
This is no normal buoy, but one of five new shark listening stations to be installed on the NSW South Coast by the State Government. The satellite-linked VR4G receiver records […]
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