Native animals can make excellent neighbours. Blue banded bees pollinate our vegetable gardens. Microbats eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes a night and powerful owls keep rodents at bay. But could we go one step further, and change our homes to invite native animals in as housemates?
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Latest from around the region
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Janelle Randall-Court: No Waste on Country & Cooling the Schools
Bundjalung Yaegl woman and Bullaburra resident, Janelle Randall-Court, has a long history of working creatively to inspire people to care for Country. We interviewed her after watching her give a cultural presentation for Greening Australia’s Cooling the Schools Project.
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Cool Mountains – Your Mid Mountains Guide for Escaping the Heat This Summer
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Keeping It Cool With a Green Roof
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Full Circle: The Transformative Effects of a Men’s Group in Lawson
When Dan Gaffney found out he was having a son, it prompted action to break a cycle of inter-generational disconnection. What began as a personal commitment to self-work has since grown into a powerful communal practice helping men become more emotionally literate, accountable, conscious and connected.
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Wildlife Real Estate: Building Homes for Nature
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Mid-Mountains Garden Festival Celebrates its 40th Birthday: Bigger Than Ever Before!
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Gaining Hope And A Home
The Homes for Older Women (HOW) program is a successful community-based solution to the national housing crisis. Since launching in May last year, the Blue Mountains not-for-profit has secured accommodation for 47 older women facing housing insecurity and homelessness.
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Planetary Health: What Does It Mean And Why Does It Matter?
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Stronger Together: Mid Mountains Neighbourhood Centre Walks the Talk
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Mid Mountains Repair Guide: Choosing Longevity in an Age of Disposability
Broken chair? Blown amp? Busted washing machine? They don’t have to be thrown away! These Mid Mountains fixers and makers will revive them.
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A Little Old, A Little New: Revisiting RoseyRavelston Bookstore
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The Fun Guy: EarthRising Mushroom Farm in Lawson
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Community Threads
Lyttleton functions as a deft weaver, drawing in large numbers of individuals via open days, workshops, and events such as this year’s Thread Fair. It succeeds in creating something greater – the stronger mesh of community.
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A Conversation at Christmas Swamp: Ecological restoration at the top of the catchment
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Blue Mountains achieves global standard in Ecotourism
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From frog saunas to butterfly puddles: 8 ways to turn your homes into a wildlife refuge
Native animals can make excellent neighbours. Blue banded bees pollinate our vegetable gardens. Microbats eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes a night and powerful owls keep rodents at bay. But could we go one step further, and change our homes to invite native animals in as housemates?
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Photographing Littlejohni, the Rare Northern Heath Frog, in Woodford
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Learning About Systems Thinking from a Bat Cave!
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Finding the Grey
Sitting in half shade, half sun on the veranda of his Lawson home, Phil Somerville tells me that juxtaposition is an effective tool for cartoonists: “Putting two unlikely things together can spawn an almost original idea”.
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Reconnecting the Seven Sisters Songlines from Uluru to the East Coast of Australia
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P is for Permaculture – a Q&A with Sharon Baldwin
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Saving Power With Take-Home Kits From Local Libraries
Blue Mountains libraries now stock free-to-borrow ‘My Energy and Water Saver’ kits that Blue Mountains residents can use to assess their homes for energy and water efficiency. Belle Butler borrowed one of the kits and discovered some room for improvement in her Lawson home.
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Weeding, Walking and Talking
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Zipping Ahead in EVs