Taking the difficulties out of using keep cups
Two Kiama stay at home dads have come up with an idea that they hope will stop a million takeaway coffee cups going to landfill in their first year of […]
Category Archives: Environment
30 years of caring for Bombo Headland
Established as a Bicentennial Project in 1988, the Bombo Headland Landcare Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary having made an extraordinary impact on the landscape. When the Group was formed […]
New tree policy will take time
The May Meeting of Council passed a motion by Councillor Matt Brown to strongly water down Kiama’s tree policy to allow property owners, without the need for permission, to remove […]
Celebrating a resurrection
The resilience of a 300 year old Morton Bay Fig has been celebrated by the planting of a new rainforest reserve around it by a group of Landcare volunteers and […]
KHS takes up War on Waste Challenge
The ABC’s influential War on Waste program has chosen Kiama High to feature in the school waste challenge for its next series. The first round of filming has finished and […]
Debate over Jones Beach planting
The March meeting of Kiama Council has given the Jones Beach Landcare Group permission to replace the dead, probably poisoned, vegetation on the dune area (as reported in The Bugle […]
Boomerang Bags celebrates 1st year
Last year a group of local volunteers began meeting every Wednesday – with the exception of Christmas week – to make reusable shopping bags, produce bags and bees wax wraps. […]
Jones Beach inaction
Having invited himself along to a meeting being held at Jones Beach to discuss the state of the vegetation (reported in The Bugle 17 Feb), Kiama Downs resident John Hansen […]
Moves to stop further damage to Jones Beach foreshore
Council’s General Manager Michael Forsyth is to recommend a number of measures to councillors at the March Council meeting to prevent further damage to the vegetation on the Jones Beach […]
Energy pledges to make real difference
As a consequence of being a founding member of the Cities Power Partnership program, Kiama Council has announced its five pledges to act on Climate Change. Kiama’s Climate Change Pledges […]
