Green Maps
March 12, 2010
The Kinglake Action Network & Development Organisation, KANDO – PWF can relate to this acronym! – is running a water Expo this weekend at trhe Kinglake Temporary Village Community Centre. It’s FREE. RSVP Please Everyone is welcome but could you […]
March 10, 2010
If you’re in Melbourne on the weekend of March 20-21, 2010, Transition Town Maroondah invites you to attend a workshop about creating a local sustainable community beyond oil dependency. Transition Town Maroondah (TTM) is a grassroots initiative working to make […]
February 26, 2010
This so-o-o-o-o complex topic continues to confound. Today, as our federal government recognises that its support for solar roof panels is stopping the development of other renewables it is reported in London that “The two most influential advisory bodies on […]
February 18, 2010
LIVE is an acronym for Locals Into Victoria’s Environment. This new community organisation is independent, non-partisan and non-profit, based in Melbourne’s City of Port Phillip. Several hundred LIVE Victorians want to address the detrimental human impacts on the planet. They […]
February 18, 2010
‘One Year On, The Future’, a documentary produced by Darren Lunny is well worth viewing. It is an excellent production and will take you 8 minutes x 4.
February 17, 2010
Sean Hughes from Skyline Energy (Ecological Solutions for the 21st Century) has provided some information regarding heat pumps vs solar-electric systems. NB Common heat pumps are food refrigerators and air conditioners. If you go to Sustainability Victoria’s pdf file ‘Benefits […]
February 17, 2010
Bryan Johnston is chasing info for a project he is developing – a website which is a major networking link for those interested in purchasing from, supporting, or learning more about aboriginal co-operatives or similar like-minded sustainable groups which either […]
February 17, 2010
Bernard Eddy of the Australian Water Network has forwarded us a heartfelt Online Opinion article by Kellie Tranter – lawyer and writer who dedicates much of her time to promoting social, environmental and political responsibility, calling for government and business […]
February 17, 2010
Derek Winter of the Business Sustainability Roundtable has contacted us about a post Copenhagen debrief over lunch in Melbourne on Wednesday 24 February. He says: “Michelle Grattan summed up the Coalition’s policy response to climate change as a ‘loose political […]
January 23, 2010
Over the years we have published several of Shane Strudwick’s passionate tourism efforts eg SA Coorong And Lakes A National Disaster? Who Cares? Yesterday I received a disappointing and sad message to stakeholders and supporters of a recent tourism effort […]
January 23, 2010
Bob Brown and Christine Milne of The Greens – have a ‘Garnautesque’ interim proposal to break the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) deadlock and get Australia actually acting on climate change. The Original Garnaut Proposal Professor Garnaut suggested we have […]
January 20, 2010
Four of Australia’s leading enviro groups are launching the Transition Decade at the Melbourne Town Hall, Sunday 14 February 2010. The power of collaboration in the quest for a safe climate future has become evident and will be seen again […]