Environment
February 17, 2008
At Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival this weekend I heard Nick Ray of the ‘Shopping with a Conscience’ Supermarket Tours speak with passion – as usual – about food miles, products, companies and related issues that are all part of our […]
February 14, 2008
The latest Green Pages Australia newsletter talks about green nightclubs and greening the obviously large numbers involved in the party scene – clever thinking by San Franciscan Paul Hemming, back in 2004. Paul is the owner and founder of Green […]
February 12, 2008
Food Miles, the huge market power of the Coles-Woolies supermarket duopoly, and what we can do about this in our weekly food shopping, are topics being scrutinised fairly closely in some thinking parts of Melbourne – as I’m sure they […]
February 7, 2008
Last year PWF wrote up Shane Strudwick’s efforts with the Online Murray-Darling Petition. They’ve collected collected 680 signatures on their way to 100,000. Not much Shane says, in the scheme of things, however as it progresses it’s growing quicker. They […]
February 5, 2008
Grow Me The Money is a project designed to help businesses make a real difference through simple changes in the workplace. It is a joint initiative of Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) and EPA Victoria. Grow Me […]
February 4, 2008
Emily Clark’s aduki independent press, based in Melbourne, publishes work by emerging and established authors and cover topics and issues that are often overlooked in mainstream media. Emily expects her titles to provoke discussion and debate and be a source […]
February 3, 2008
Self help is what PWF is all about, as we at the grassroots attempt the two-way (?) communication process with decisionmakers in private efforts to look after self and planet. The Mercury Centre’s Alan Greig kindly steers PWF research in […]
January 31, 2008
Tiny Maleny on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, with a population of around 2000, NEVER ceases to amaze. Apparently the Maleny Film Society is one of the largest film societies in Australia and its Maleny Film Commission has contributed a small grant […]
January 31, 2008
Anyone interested in setting up a Green Map project for their region will be interested in Judy Wicks’ approach to sustainable development. Judy is a national leader in the North American local, living economies movement. A lot of us would […]
January 31, 2008
Everything IS connected to everything else isn’t it, especially in regional areas? I found out about this tourism promotion in Get Farming! Tourism Australia (TA) and US publisher Conde Nast are jointly profiling Australia in Conde Nast’s leading travel publication,‘Traveler’. […]
January 29, 2008
After reporting on the benefits of the electric car for some years AND on how the US car industry killed the first generation of electric cars in the 1990s, Co-op America is pressuring all its members to talk to local […]
January 23, 2008
More than three months after federal government approved Gunns’ $2 billion Tamar Valley pulp mill, The Australian reports that finance and building contracts etc are still be finalised. Conservationists and climate-change activists are hopeful that the delays to date plus […]