Business
October 4, 2011
Congregations, community service agencies, aged care facilities, schools and the central offices of the Uniting Church in Tasmania and Victoria are setting a strong community example with the Synod’s decision to reduce gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. […]
October 2, 2011
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is warning that we need to act on global food security to avoid political chaos and environmental refugees. He notes that the Middle-East upheaval started with protests about the high cost of bread. He says we […]
October 2, 2011
The weekend sees Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas take off and there are lots of Australian cities running TEDx ‘fests’. About TED TED (Technology, Environment, Design) is a global ideas movement that posts ‘ideas worth spreading’ online. It covers a […]
October 2, 2011
Social enterprises are organisations that trade to fulfill their social or community mission and Nina Yousefpour from Queensland University of Technology has emailed PWF, asking social enterprises to participate in and pass on their web survey into strategic orientation of […]
October 2, 2011
Have you heard about Infoxchange Australia‘s new role for its social enterprise, GreenPC? Sorting & Recycling Old Technology Pilot For 10 years GreenPC has been re-manufacturing computers and laptops and making them available at low cost to health care card […]
September 25, 2011
It is possible, as part of carbon farming, that breeding crops with deeper roots could stop CO2 increase ‘stone dead’ says the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming. What Is Carbon Farming? Carbon Farming is farming in a way that reduces […]
September 25, 2011
Kym Jerome has ‘discovered’ PWF and asks us to post info about work for tradies in Cooktown. Work Available There is a shortage of tradies to do reno work in Cooktown. Also needed is a person who has experience in […]
September 25, 2011
Lisa Devlin and partner Glen from Wooroora Station have emailed us saying: “We are 20 km from Ravenshoe on Wooroora Rd, the first turn right off Tully Falls Road. Wooroora Station is 50 000 acres, running a mixed (Brahman, Charolaise, […]
August 17, 2011
Vale Ray Anderson. Ray was a sustainability maverick, often called “the greenest CEO in America for his crusade to turn his billion-dollar carpet company into an environmentally sustainable enterprise.” He died last week at his home in Atlanta, at 77. […]
August 17, 2011
The following email to PWF makes me wonder WHY we can’t get a measured discussion going on major issues like the carbon tax. WHAT is mainstream media delivering? WHERE is the Climate Commission? Surely complexity is a lame excuse? Tim […]
August 3, 2011
On Friday 5 August cafes with a social conscience right around Australia – serving great coffee of course – will donate $1.00 per coffee sold to fund local projects to help homeless people. About This Project Taking place during National […]
August 2, 2011
Newspapers face both threats and opportunities from radio, TV and the internet. Nick Evershed writes that advertising revenue is falling and new ways of funding journalism are being sought. I certainly discern a sentiment ‘out there’ that there is not […]