Green Maps
September 12, 2012
The Victorian Government is proposing changes to Melbourne’s much-loved Green Wedges WITHOUT wide community consultation. Do you remember the 1994 community-based High Court challenge to stop legislation allowing a Japanese downhill ski development on Mt Stirling, linking it via chairlift […]
August 17, 2012
For women in the third world a bra is often unobtainable or unaffordable. Project Uplift! collects new and second hand bras and sends them wherever we have requests. Indigenous women in isolated communities have no access to bras and when […]
August 16, 2012
Had you, like me, been wondering exactly what has happened in the VET sector to cause the Baillieu Government to act so harshly with the TAFEs? Ben Eltham on crowd-funded New Matilda explains: “According to the policy experts and union […]
August 9, 2012
Dramatic changes in demand meaning Australia needs virtually no new coal or gas baseload generation over the next decade plus the development of new water and salt-based batteries at WA’s Murdoch Uni signal change. Decreasing Demand And Growth In Small-Scale […]
August 9, 2012
The US city of Seattle has plans for a ‘food forest’ for the city. It wants to make blueberry picking a neighbourly activity. Permaculture And Foraging It IS great to pick food growing in a backyard and the vision of […]
August 9, 2012
Do energy consumers want a smart grid, or no grid at all, asks Giles Parkinson. He writes in Reneweconomy: “Very seldom do you get people who get mad as hell about electricity prices and go off grid. It simply costs […]
August 8, 2012
A new social enterprise – Clockwork By Cycle Couriers – will offer local same day deliveries by bicycle in Nillumbik Shire in Melbourne’s outer NE. 100% of the profit will go back into Nillumbik Community Health Service and a new […]
August 7, 2012
In outer NE Melbourne, Croydon’s Yarrunga Community Centre will run an affordable, accessible short course on Permaculture Oct- Nov 2012. On the basis of wanting to share knowledge of these important principles Yarrunga has won some government funding. About The […]
July 31, 2012
A reader has alerted us to a discussion paper released by the Attorney-General’s Department suggesting that ISPs would be required to store user activity online for a period of 2 years. What Is Happening? Parliament is considering new security proposals […]
July 26, 2012
“Great minds discuss ideas” – Eleanor Roosevelt “Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about” – Ashleigh Brilliant “We think good ideas to death, when we should be acting them to […]
July 17, 2012
A line-up of expert speakers will address the FoodLegal Symposium ‘Health Claim Hazards: Navigating the Regulatory Minefield’ Tuesday 21 August 2012 8:30am – 1:30pm At the Menzies Hotel, Wynyard, Sydney CBD About The Symposium The half-day Symposium will address the […]
July 16, 2012
Giles Parkinson of Renew Economy reports that the Grattan Institute has released a renewables policy idea to be considered – a series of reverse auctions as held in South Africa and in our ACT. Reverse Auctions – Lower Costs, Lower […]