Align in the Sound - New Economy Network / Radio BTL / CoCanberra

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

A story from the archives, about the fight to stop the cyanide leach goldmine from being built in the lakebed of Lake Cowal, an ephemeral lake in the centre of NSW, Wiradjuri country.

The ACT Council of Social Service Inc. (ACTCOSS) represents not-for-profit community organisations and advocates for social justice in the ACT. They are a not-for-profit peak body working collaboratively with organisations and individuals who support their vision and goals for positive social change.

Dr. Emma Campbell recently joined ACTCOSS as Chief Executive Officer in January 2020 and is the former CEO of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA), Australia’s peak representative body advocating on behalf of Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Emma’s diverse portfolio covers a wealth of experience ranging across academia, the community sector, international crisis responses, business and government sectors. She also speaks Chinese and Korean and has completed three missions with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), including in Swaziland (now Eswatini), Sierra Leone and Lebanon.

This week we will be chatting with Maddie Diamond, Executive Officer of SEE-Change, a Canberra-based community, not-for-profit group that informs, inspires and supports people to join together and take sustainable actions. Maddie will be introducing us to SEE-change, and the org's local grass roots action in Canberra to educate and encourage sustainability practices within our communities.

CoCanberra is a SEEchange group, which also presents Behind the Lines.

As suburban backyards shrink and green space becomes a

premium, even as we are encouraged to grow, to compost and

to reduce waste, it makes no sense to keep nature strips as no-

go zones, and to insist on watering hungry strips of lawn with

much of the run off ending up in the storm water system. The

response has been a verge and community garden revolution!

Especially since COVID with a surge of renewed interest in

gardening, It’s one of those ideas that is now capturing the

public’s imagination and we are starting to see more and more

street verge and community gardens appearing, many of them

growing food.

Joining us via phone this morning to chat about transforming

your verge and creating organic community gardens are Keith

Colls from Canberra City Farm, and Peter Weddell from Canberra Organic Growers Society.

interview with Bronwen Morgan, Co-founder of NENA and Professor of Law at the UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice.

interview with Garry Claridge, the Co-op Secretary of NENA, an extremely experienced business systems analyst and software developer, and long-time volunteer with cooperatives.