Environment
October 19, 2005
The eTree partnership between Computershare and Landcare Australia, launched in March 2004, has now raised over $500,000 – which equates to approximately one million trees being replanted across Australia and New Zealand. If you haven’t heard of it before, eTree […]
October 19, 2005
Weedbusters is an awareness program that works with the community to achieve sustainable land and water management, primarily through increased public involvement in weed management, education and awareness projects. Weedbusters started in 1994 as Queensland Weed Awareness Week and in […]
October 5, 2005
So WHY did the Heyfield community put so much effort into grantseeking and getting their Wetlands Centre up and going? Community activist, and the last of the original committee, Wendy Rhodes says there are several reasons: 1)History – the Racecourse […]
October 5, 2005
Native vegetation regulation is imposing a burden on the farm sector and can jeopardise some environmental outcomes says ABARE executive director, Dr Brian Fisher in ABARE’s ( Autralian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics) September issue of ‘Australian Commodities’. The […]
October 5, 2005
Tasmania has been recognised internationally for maintaining its environmental and cultural integrity in the face of global tourism and the mounting pressures of the 21st century. It was ranked third in the world by an independent panel of more than […]
September 21, 2005
A wide range of community organisations centred around the Spring Creek Community Centre will run their sixth ‘Living sustainably-living green’ event at the Surfworld in Beach Rd Torquay, on October 23rd. There will be guided tours of local eco-friendly houses […]
September 21, 2005
Community, cultural, environmental and recreational groups in SA’s Coorong region will help stage the ‘Meet the Waders Festival’ September 1 to November 30 – a model that could be adopted where a region experiences a natural wonder and wants to […]
September 21, 2005
A $77M BIODIESEL PROJECT, the largest in Australia, is being constructed in the Darwin Business Park at East Arm – a new industry for the NT which should create more than 100 jobs. In Europe and America biodiesel fuel is […]
September 7, 2005
This community campaign, the ‘longest running, most professional and successful heritage campaign in Australia” (Nigel Lewis, Architect and heritage consultant) was all about preserving the entire Abbotsford Convent precinct – a 5.6 hectare “intact 19th Century rural landscape” just four […]
September 7, 2005
A group of SA environmentalists, energy scientists, economists and legal experts, operating under the name ‘Big Green Umbrella’, has combined with service station chain SAFF to respond to the threat posed by greenhouse gas emissions. SAFF is selling ‘Green Fuel’ […]
August 25, 2005
Recent surveys in the coastal Victorian town of Inverloch show that the concerted January 2004 emergency response by the Department of Sustainability & Environment (DSE)and over 300 volunteers appears to have prevented a spread of the Northern Pacific Seastar – […]
August 25, 2005
The ‘Filter House’ Broome, designed to capture cooling breezes while also providing protection from prevailing easterly winds has won architects David Oppenheim and Chris Barnett of Sustainable Built Environments a 2005 Greensmart energy efficieny award. The finished house is the […]