https://winzero.com.au/news/News and stories from WinZero, Southern Highlandsen-auhttps://winzero.com.au/winzero-2025-chair-report/https://winzero.com.au/winzero-2025-chair-report/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +1000WinZero’s 2025 Chair Report celebrates a year of practical action, fresh ideas, scientific research and community collaboration.https://winzero.com.au/the-forever-chemicals-in-your-water/https://winzero.com.au/the-forever-chemicals-in-your-water/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +1000When Dr. Ian Wright’s research team started testing dead platypuses for PFAS contamination, the lab manager called immediately with an urgent question…https://winzero.com.au/ven-generator/https://winzero.com.au/ven-generator/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +1000“Be part of Australia’s energy revolution – join the Deakin Virtual Energy (VEN) NetworkResearch Study. Share clean power, reduce costs, and build a more…https://winzero.com.au/ven-offtaker/https://winzero.com.au/ven-offtaker/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +1000” We’re all about local, sustainable, and regenerative. The VEN just makes sense—it lets us power our business with solar, even without panels.”https://winzero.com.au/from-cars-to-community-rethinking-planning-in-our-shire/https://winzero.com.au/from-cars-to-community-rethinking-planning-in-our-shire/Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +1000In the Southern Highlands, Neville Fredericks, a seasoned advocate for sustainable development, challenges us to reconsider our urban planning approaches.…https://winzero.com.au/solar-my-school/https://winzero.com.au/solar-my-school/Tue, 16 May 2023 09:00:00 +1000WinZero and Wingecarribee Shire Council join forces to spearhead the Solar my School program, bringing renewable energy to educational institutions in the…https://winzero.com.au/forecasting-the-future-how-to-prepare-for-the-challenges-of-tomorrow/https://winzero.com.au/forecasting-the-future-how-to-prepare-for-the-challenges-of-tomorrow/Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +1000Join us for an engaging and informative guest speaker event on the topic of “Forecasting the Future: How to Prepare for the Challenges of Tomorrow in Our…https://winzero.com.au/the-eridge-park-turtles/https://winzero.com.au/the-eridge-park-turtles/Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +1000Wingecarribee’s turtles are in danger. They are in urgent need of greater protection. Though some of our turtle communities are in relatively safe places…https://winzero.com.au/moss-vale-high-school/https://winzero.com.au/moss-vale-high-school/Sun, 03 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +1000WinZero will use these funds to help Moss Vale High School fast track their schools’ rooftop solar installation.https://winzero.com.au/frensham-controversial-bush-cabins/https://winzero.com.au/frensham-controversial-bush-cabins/Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +1000Watching Frensham School for girls tear itself apart over the controversial bush cabin development application involving destruction of 249 trees, platypus…https://winzero.com.au/winzero-mugs/https://winzero.com.au/winzero-mugs/Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +1000WinZero is excited to announce that they will be releasing their very own mug this year! Sandy Lockwood from Balmoral Pottery, has created an original range…https://winzero.com.au/frensham-controversial-bush-cabins-delayed-in-court/https://winzero.com.au/frensham-controversial-bush-cabins-delayed-in-court/Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +1000Frensham last week moved to ‘vacate the dates’ of the 12/14th October for the hearing in the Winifred West Schools v Wingecarribee Shire Council case over…https://winzero.com.au/open-letter-to-frensham-board-of-governors/https://winzero.com.au/open-letter-to-frensham-board-of-governors/Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +1000Leading environment experts and leaders in the Southern Highlands are calling on the Frensham Board of Governors to abandon its DA for bush cabins in the…https://winzero.com.au/colin-todd-story/https://winzero.com.au/colin-todd-story/Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +1000For the last 40 years I have been living in Balmoral Village on a 5-acre bush block where my wife and I have a pottery studio.https://winzero.com.au/earl-st-da/https://winzero.com.au/earl-st-da/Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +1000THAT the Wingecarribee Local Planning Panel determines development application 21/2058 for subdivision of land and carrying out of works to create three…https://winzero.com.au/frensham/https://winzero.com.au/frensham/Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +1000We would like to thank you for supporting our campaign to save the Nattai River Wildlife Corridor in Mittagong by signing this petition. We were able to…https://winzero.com.au/save-frensham-forest/https://winzero.com.au/save-frensham-forest/Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +1000In 2015 the area know as the “Lower Holt”, which isa heavily forested section of land in Mittagong that borders Range Road to the west, Colo Street to the…https://winzero.com.au/winzero-may-roundup/https://winzero.com.au/winzero-may-roundup/Sat, 08 May 2021 09:00:00 +1000It has been a very busy period since the last Newsletter as we have been consolidating our relationships with our wide-ranging networks, preparing a variety…https://winzero.com.au/regreening-of-the-wingecarribee-river/https://winzero.com.au/regreening-of-the-wingecarribee-river/Thu, 06 May 2021 09:00:00 +1000The Oxley College Landcare Group began rivercare activities in 1989 and continued with a range of projects and improvements to the riparian area until 2011.…https://winzero.com.au/earth-hour-2021-round-up/https://winzero.com.au/earth-hour-2021-round-up/Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +1000Thank you to all the people who came along to Earth Hour at the Southern Highlands Botanical Gardens and were amongst the first people in Australia to see…