Green Maps
January 8, 2009
WHY, WHY, WHY don’t WE here in Australia take note of success elsewhere in the world? The German solar power sector is now creating three times the number of jobs per installed megawatt as the coal fired electricity industry. Australia […]
January 5, 2009
The Sustainable Living Foundation reports that the Federal Government will be needing Home Sustainability Assessors across the country for their Green Loans initiative starting early 2009. Trained assessors could earn between $200 and $300 per assessment and the Federal Government […]
December 9, 2008
Through the Nillumbik Homebiz network I have recently met a lovely lady, Dr Maggie Broom, who is provisional psychologist living on several acres – with several horses – in the bushy NE outskirts of Melbourne. Maggie is passionate about her […]
October 28, 2008
Riveresque Curtains and Accessories, a Warrandyte family owned business in Melbourne’s outer NE Green Wedge, is starting to get requests for natural, organic, low impact interior decor materials and for Australian-owned products. I first heard of this was from the […]
October 9, 2008
‘Sustainability Action Week 2008’ (S.A.W. ‘08) is a grassroots education program that will involve community people in Melbourne’s outer east – the cities of Manningham and Maroondah – teaming up to teach students about sustainability using ‘different and revolutionary’ educational […]
October 7, 2008
The Canberra Times has re-published a New York Times ‘aspirational article’ by Tom Friedman who writes about the legacies of several boom and bust bubbles: The 19th century American railroad boom and bust – leaving America with a fabulous infrastructure […]
October 6, 2008
Local food and health advocacy group, GM-free Nillumbik (GMFN) will officially launch their campaign to declare the shire of Nillumbik a GM-free zone with a public forum in Eltham on October 20. As the Manningham-Nillumbik Green Map coordinator I was […]
September 22, 2008
David Ellis – well-known environmentalist in Victoria’s Warrandyte Green Wedge region – tells us Dr. David Spratt, co-author of Climate Code Red, will speak on the latest research and local impacts of climate change on Wednesday evening 24 September at […]