Environment

October 21, 2007

Profitable Green Business – Think Service Not Product

Better business, better life, better world… people are starting to talk about a new ‘industrial revolution’. Leigh Baker of www.balance3.com.au recognises the new set of conditions we face as both businessowners and as residents of this planet. As a business […]
October 16, 2007

Fungi Help Soil Hold Water In Drought

A Weekly Times article – October 10 – about Balranald farmer, Tim O’Halloran, who believes he will harvest a good wheat crop this season, though neighbours have already put livestock in on poor crops, led me to www.lawrieco.com.au. People are […]
October 15, 2007

The High Cost Of Low Prices…Wal-mart Film

The Ethical Consumer Group holds meetings monthly at Nick Ray’s place in Footscray, Melbourne. This Wednesday, 17 October, they are screening ‘Wal-mart – the high cost of low prices’. About The Gatherings These nights are a casual meal, movie and […]
October 12, 2007

Rick Roser’s Aboriginal Art and Culture Resources Kit

Rick Roser is an Aboriginal artist from Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. He runs ‘Aboriginal Events Management’, an Aboriginal Culture consultancy and has presented thousands of art and culture workshops to schools, TAFEs and universities. Rick is currently promoting his Aboriginal Art […]
October 11, 2007

Retriever And Sydney Water’s ‘Love Your Garden’ Program

Retriever Communications, working in cooperation with Sydney Water, has released a You Tube video about the field inspection program – Love Your Garden. Each garden has its own watering needs and these can now be assessed to reduce water ‘wasted’ […]
October 10, 2007

Sustainability Streets…The Village Is Growing

Local people, local communities, local action…the Sustainability Street program was designed and developed by Vox Bandicoot, who for some 20 years now have been developing sustainability programs for local communities, schools and workplaces. The central idea is that ‘It’s a […]
October 9, 2007

Quality Farmed Fish, Wild Caught Fish…Some Issues

A year ago PWF asked if fish farming was the way of the future, so we were interested to see, in the latest FisheNews Aquaculture Newsletter, reports on Barramundi farms taking greater market share and on farmed fish winning aquaculture […]
October 8, 2007

Toyota, GM, Hyundai…Hydrogen Fuel Cells Update

There IS progress with the development of fuel cells. For really good, clear info and what you can do to help visit www.fuelcells.org or email Jennifer@fuelcells.org for their newsletter. Following is a tiny bit of what is being reported around […]
October 3, 2007

‘Deliberative democracy’…is this OUR democracy?

Today people are realising that the traditional ‘them’ and ‘us’ relationship between citizens and government is inadequate for solving public problems. The usual avenues for ‘consultative decision-making’ often waste public resources, create unproductive conflict, and fail to tap citizen potential. […]
October 2, 2007

Processed Food And The 100 Mile Diet

Several readers have written in about the 100 mile diet, and in my search for more info I found this rather frightening piece published on Kindred – one family, one world. The Frightening Stuff And Why You May Choose To […]
September 30, 2007

The Germ Of Deliberative Democracy – In NSW And Vic.

Civic Voice (CV) in the NSW Central Coast – Wyong-Gosford region – is really doing something about deliberative democracy/community-based policymaking, as is the Gippsland Women’s Local Government Association (GWLGA) and Ratepayers Victoria Inc. How is democracy and the hope of […]
September 30, 2007

Community Supported Agriculture, Relocalisation…only in Qld?

A reader has put us on to the ABC’s ‘From farm to family dinner’ story in Brisbane, where there is community support for local growers, (CSA) and we’ve talked about relocalisation. How do the two relate? Is the difference just […]