Green Maps
May 3, 2010
Every good farm has a great story behind it and Gippsland women are invited to tell their stories about sustainable agriculture…AT NO COST. There will be two training sessions – May and June, 2010. Jenny O’Sullivan, from Linking Environment Agriculture […]
April 30, 2010
After a lot of interest in recent PWF articles about food swaps and community supported agriculture here in Melbourne, here’s info about fresh organics, live art and live music at this month’s Fitzroy Market. Fitzroy Community Market Partners The Market, […]
April 30, 2010
ProBono Australia, summarising the new Forester’s research, Financing Social Enterprise: Understanding Needs And Realities , reports that social enterprises should not rely on grant funding and should adopt sustainable business operations. The report that finds: “Social enterprise is not a […]
April 23, 2010
PWF totally supports communities finding ways for all kinds of people to think, talk and work together to solve problems. Dr Mark Brophy of the Australian Study Circles Network does just this with an Orientation Workshop in Marrickville, NSW this […]
April 19, 2010
A PWF reader has sent us ‘a succinct piece of science based on data measurements, not modelling’ produced by the BOM and CSIRO(pdf). The following info comes from peer reviewed data on temperature, rainfall, sea level, ocean acidification and carbon […]
April 19, 2010
Darebin Council in inner Melbourne is encouraging ‘sustainable food choices’. They, and Transition Darebin, part of the Transition Town network, will work together on a $75,000 plan to trial growing produce at two sites on public land and also look […]
April 18, 2010
For centuries local economies have been strengthened by cooperative alliances and in March Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Cooperative Alliance visited to launch Social Business Australia (SBA) at Parliament House in Canberra. We all like to feel that […]
April 16, 2010
Happy to pass on info about the inaugural Greensborough Food Swap in Melbourne’s NE, 24 April 2010. Excess Home Grown Produce? Local Food Connect and ACES Northern Urban Agriculture Project aim to give people the opportunity to come together and […]
April 15, 2010
For me, the expression ‘Weasel Words’ captures exactly “the powerlessness and frustration we feel when confronted by meaningless words delivered with authority. Los Angeles Times about Don Watson’s www.weaselwords.com.au Although we all KNOW how words become faddish we keep on […]
March 29, 2010
A new business – Village Futures Food – linking food producers with consumers wanting to buy fresh, seasonal produce direct from farmers in their region, has been in operation for 5 weeks now – in a modest way. What Is […]
March 28, 2010
“We must bring money back down to earth” says Woody Tasch on his Slow Money website. Last Century, Fast Money And NOW Woody continues saying: There is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too […]
March 17, 2010
The Just Add Water project aims to put 200 megalitres into the Hattah Lakes, south of Mildura in Victoria. These lakes are internationally significant for their unique wildlife and in a first for a green group, the ACF (Australian Conservation […]