Green Maps
January 15, 2010
Oxfam Australia is asking us to respond to the Haiti earthquake. With more than 100,000 people feared dead, and millions more needing urgent assistance after the earthquake yesterday, they ask for our help to save lives. “An Oxfam team is […]
January 15, 2010
It seems we’re planning to eat ‘healthier’ in 2010, to look more closely at food labels and possibly visit more farmers’ markets. Research has found around 75% of Australians are aiming to maintain or improve their health – we’re ‘cocooning’. […]
January 15, 2010
PWF has received a message from David Winderlich, an independent South Aussie MLC with a website proclaiming ‘Community, compassion, courage’. David is organising a Murray River protest on the 20 January, outside the Federal Community Cabinet meeting to be held […]
December 21, 2009
The Age’s Paying the price of going solar spells out some problems. Linda, a western Victorian reader, has also alerted us to the problem of doing the right thing but being ineligible for any of the Green Loans available if […]
December 20, 2009
Retirees Keith and Helen Cowie faced a financial crisis three years ago when their nest egg nearly petered out
December 17, 2009
Passing on the Avaaz message: “With three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing. Tomorrow, the world’s leaders arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for […]
December 8, 2009
The Tourism Satellite Accounts provide all states and territories with comprehensive data on the economic impacts of visitor expenditure on their economies. The 2007-08: Summary Spreadsheets have just been released and are available free from the STCRC (Sustainable Tourism Cooperative […]
December 8, 2009
HAS there been a community discussion/debate on the merits of a Carbon Tax versus the cap and trade Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)? Dick Warburton, former company director and former Reserve Bank board member who chairs an advisory committee on aid […]
December 1, 2009
The linkage between water, energy and Climate Change raised its head at the 12th International Rivers Symposium in Brisbane September 09. Thank you to Bernard Eddy of AWN for providing some thought provoking leads. Julia Imrie of Rivers SOS wrote […]
December 1, 2009
Become A Green Loans Home Sustainability Assessor has been a very popular PWF article for many months now. However an assessor cap has been applied and on 24 December the Government will cease certifying assessors. In a recent Green Loans […]
December 1, 2009
The Tasmanian Greens have launched a ‘Cooperative Tasmania’ (pdf) initiative and have a proposal for the McCain vegetable processing plant there due to close November 2010. Putting the business into the hands of the community rather than simply bailing out […]
December 1, 2009
Lane Burdett has sent us info about a new community project designed to keep Victorians up-to-date with fire news this summer. A new website – created by Harshit Sekhon – uses live feeds from the CFA/MFB, Police and the Bureau […]