The Orange Podcast

Send us a text Orange City Council's Sustainability Project Officer Eleanor Pratten sat down with Calum Harvey-Scholes from Rewiring Australia to discuss the recent Electrify Your Home event and talk about opportunities for Orange residents to transition to a more resilient and sustainable energy future.

Send us a text A community info session in Orange is designed to help households take control of their energy future. Learn from experts about home electrification, rooftop solar, battery storage, passive heating and and energy efficiency upgrades.

Send us a text There’s been a major step forward in a long-running change which has the potential to transform the local indigenous community.  In Orange a community fun day was held to acknowledge the start of new co-management deal to oversee the management of the Moulder Park Velodrome. And, a visit to Orange by state government minister Tara Moriarty delivers the opportunity to look at why its takes so long to build a sports precinct.

Send us a text NSW senator Deb O’Neil was in Orange on Monday to announce joint state and federal funding for the first steps of a plan to explore building a pilot plant to produce Purified Recycled Water (PRW) for Orange residents to drink. In the same way that Orange has led the way Australia-wide to draw on Stormwater Harvesting to deliver drinking water, the next step is to use Purified Recycled Water. It's a decision with a huge potential impact for the city’s future.  This week, we find out how it could all work. And we meet one of the new faces recently-elected to Orange City Council