Collaboration …or not
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 […]
August 2, 2011
Laura Farrant tries to incorporate her green living principles in every area of her life and has applied the following ideas in her own office, where she works on logo design. As a PWF guest writer, Laura shares her tips […]
August 2, 2011
Farming The Sun’s success in achieving its goal and in being ‘Highly Commended’ in the NSW 2011 Community Sustainability Award is due to collaboration between the community, businesses and government says Adam Blakester – coordinator of the project along with […]
August 2, 2011
No doubt we have all now heard how Gippsland’s Hazelwood power station in the LaTrobe Valley, producer of up to 25% of Victoria’s base load electricity – burning dirty brown coal – will most certainly be closed under a carbon […]
August 2, 2011
Green Renters is a not for profit organisation for those who want to lead a responsible ‘sustainable’ existence but who are renting! It offers help by providing ‘a voice’ and resources such as a website, workshops, opportunities for discussion. It […]
August 2, 2011
Is it possible, as some research is showing, that heavy use of social media by adolescents is causing ‘mind change’ through the shrinking of brain tissue, as Oxford University neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield claims? How Would This Occur? The Baroness […]
August 1, 2011
Hervey Bay’s Sheila King of Australia For All reports that at a recent meeting the Fraser Coast Regional Council agreed to install access ramps to the firm sand at Torquay, Scarness and Pialba, to enable people with mobility aids to […]
August 1, 2011
Michael French has emailed us about his current Queensland house-sitting occupation. This house-sitting, all around Queensland, varies from several weeks to months and Michael is wondering if someone would like to travel with him. Worldwide House-Sitting Service Michael gets constant […]
July 30, 2011
The indefatigable Jane Monk has contacted PWF about an ‘Awakening the Dreamer’ symposium, to be held in Bayswater in Melbourne’s outer east. About ‘Awakening The Dreamer’ Some quotes to set the scene: “Never doubt that a small band of committed […]
July 28, 2011
Francois Beugels has written to PWF saying: “I am a young, fit and active 74 old male leaving end of August 2011 for China, then the Transiberian train and Europe, with no fixed itinerary in China [3 to 6 month […]
July 18, 2011
A national conference – 1-2 August at the Angliss Conference Centre, Melbourne – will explore community responses to natural disasters and the need for effective disaster risk management and emergency services. COAG Report Leaves Implementation To Governments & Bureaucracies The […]