Environment
December 12, 2006
Challenge: reduce 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas by Australia Day 07 What a brilliant idea/marketing! It works for Sunrise, Origin and the community…..in a friendly ‘fun’ way it sweeps households and businesses right across Australia into actively doing something about […]
December 7, 2006
A new Melbourne mum is encouraging others to consider nappy alternatives Local rag ‘The Melbourne Times’ reports this week how Northcote mum, Meaghan Siemensma, has organised the Darebin Nappy Trial in conjunction with the local Darebin Council and The Environment […]
December 5, 2006
This town is just NOT going to let ‘financial power’ win Where is Maleny & why is it significant? Maleny, population 4000, an hour’s drive north of Brisbane, is a small hinterland community on the Sunshine Coast. Many think of […]
December 1, 2006
20,000 rally & WA Government drops opposition to heritage listing A ‘Save our Heritage’ campaign supported by activist website GetUp! Action for Australia, and many others, is celebrating this morning after a rally of over twenty thousand people has this […]
November 28, 2006
Ecologically responsible weddings popular in US, UK, but not here, YET! I found this story in a brand new bi-monthly ‘green living’ mag called G, with the tagline ‘for a lifestyle that won’t cost the earth’. Editor Sara Phillips says […]
November 26, 2006
It seems in a ‘can do community’ pigs will fly in circles…..True or False? TRUE! So what’s all this about? In 2002-3, when the Pigs Will Fly project was a few vague ideas, it went under the name ‘Can Do […]
November 19, 2006
Each car is ‘green rated’ 1-100 to show relative environmental friendliness Treehuggersays Environmental Defense helped Yahoo! with the ratings, which include: smog and greenhouse gas-related emissions; fuel type and fuel efficiency; the pollution caused from manufacturing. You can also
October 24, 2006
‘Greening’ existing housing: someone could do this here! The newly formed Glasgow-based Eco-Renovation Network in the UK argues any house can become an eco-house and they believe that with around 80% of people in the UK living in towns and […]
October 22, 2006
Food & healthy lifestyle magazine launched in May wins in August Emily Clark is the editor and publisher of aduki,, a free, quarterly publication focussing on good food and living coupled with respect for animals and the planet. She says […]
October 17, 2006
A ‘Search for Cleaner Air’ part of a mighty marketing push? For every search conducted on their site Sensis will donate enough money to Greening Australia to plant trees and absorb 100g of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, equivalent to […]
October 6, 2006
The new Perpetual Water system turns grey water blue A new grey water treatment system can turn up to 750 litres of grey water into safe, high-quality, clear water daily, which should be enough to ‘drought proof your property’ and […]
October 4, 2006
What you need to consider before selecting the plug-in option The latest Treehugger newsletter warns that ‘Not all hybrids are created equal’. The full article gives a lot of info for consideration after asking the questions: Plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles may […]