The Yarra Community Solar (YCS) project is an initiative to establish community owned commercial scale solar PV in the community.

The City of Yarra’s world leading position is in danger of being lost. In spite of all the good work done so far, the clear need for the role, and the desire for the role by the community, the Council hasn’t included funding for the Urban Agriculture Facilitator in the 2012/13 budget. The Council introduced [...]

Got a compost problem?  Want to chat about your worm farm?   Or maybe just improve your sense of humus? Then come to the Clifton Hill Compost Mates surgery, at the Quince Cafe, corner of Spensley and Berry streets, near to Clifton Hill train station. Dr Compost will be there from 10.30am till 1pm, Saturday 12th [...]

Love solar power? Come along to a forum on a community solar project for Yarra. We are looking at creating a medium-scale community-owned rooftop solar power “station” in our local area. DATE Saturday May 19th TIME 11am, promptly concluding at 1pm VENUE Athol Gill Centre, 100 Hodgkinson St Clifton Hill. (Close to the 86 tram, [...]

Over four weekends in March and April, volunteers from Darebin Climate Action Now (DCAN) and Yarra Climate Action Now (YCAN) spoke to over 500 people from Reservoir, Preston, Northcote, Fairfield, Alphington and Clifton Hill about their views on the development and funding of large scale solar power in Australia.
We found overwhelming support (87%) for the construction of big solar in Australia.

Join community leaders, transport experts and Adam Bandt MP to find out what we can do to protect our city from the Baillieu government’s plan to drive an East-West tollway through our community.

Wednesday, 2 May, 7pm – 8.30pm
Dan O’Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053

Yarra Climate Action Now is a proud member of the rural and urban alliance, launched yesterday, calling for a ban across Victoria of all new coal and coal seam gas exploration and development. As of this morning, Forty-five community organisations had joined the alliance.

One of the most exciting things in Community Gardening happened last weekend. You might have missed it, because it was without fanfare, and very localised: Maud and Neil put up a planter box on a streetside close to where they live. You don’t feel excited? You should do, because this was the first streetside planter [...]

Ted Baillieu has a plan to destroy the renewable energy jobs and industries in this state, and expand our brown coal development, including starting an export industry. On top of this he wants to spend taxpayer money on a public relations campaign, on behalf of the coal companies, to convince us that brown coal is great. If this crazy plan goes ahead it will be an economic, social and ecological catastrophe for Victoria.