Community
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 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 […]
July 13, 2011
The ‘big boys’ of the Australian International Motor Show board initially excluded Castlemaine’s Ross Blade, Australia’s only maker of electric cars from the 2011 show. The Age’s Lawrence Money went into bat for him. WHAT Happened? Castlemaine’s Blade Electric Vehicles […]
July 13, 2011
Lynne Seddon from the Tasman Village project has contacted us about their ‘affordable’ community village project at Nubeena on Tassie’s south-east coast. The Mercury reports that plans for a 65 lot community village on nine hectares at Nubeena have been […]
July 12, 2011
Ten Victorian property owners are trialling life with no mains electricity to reduce the risk of bushfires sparked by power-line failure. They have signed up to the ‘Remote Area Power Supply’ trial and over the past six months have been […]
July 12, 2011
Cougar Energy has been ordered to shut down its trial underground coal gasification plant near Kingaroy by the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, after traces of the cancer-causing chemical benzene were found in groundwater monitoring bores last year. […]