Environment
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Councils sign on to renewables
Macedon Ranges, Mount Alexander and Hepburn are three of 46 state councils to sign on to the largest ever emissions…
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Gas on the nose at climate rally
Gas was on the nose as hundreds of locals gathered in Castlemaine’s Victory Park on Friday as part of nationwide…
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Podcast goes global
Saltgrass, a Castlemaine sustainability podcast proudly supported by Mount Alexander Sustainability Group and MAINfm 94.9, has gone global! The podcast…
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Sweet smell of success
When the Whiteman family moved from inner city Melbourne to rural Chintin in the Macedon Ranges in 2018, they had…
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Call for sanctuary – Petition to ban shooting at Cairn Curran
A petition calling for a ban on recreational duck shooting on Cairn Curran Reservoir at Baringhup has attracted hundreds of…
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POWER PARK STALLED
Plans have stalled for a major community renewable energy park to help power Macedon Ranges. The Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group…
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Clear the verges – Firefighter speaks out on fuel loads
Andrew Avent knows a thing or two about wildfire and has a controversial idea for rural roadside management across the…
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Forest frustration
More than 40 state, national and international groups are calling on the state government to accept recommendations for new national…
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Way of the future… new charge station at Harcourt
Harcourt’s newly installed electric vehicle charge station is up and running with a new public EV fast charge station for…
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Deserving attention – A guide to our beautiful and hardy native peas
Friends of the Box Ironbark Forests members Bernard Slattery and Bronwyn Silver have teamed up to produce a comprehensive guide…
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Kyneton farmer joins Farm2Plate
Kyneton farmer Alex Sims says he had no money, no experience and no land when he decided to plunge head-long…
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Farm build right threat
A strategy aimed at protecting productive agricultural land in the Macedon Ranges is being challenged by farmland owners. The local…