People, Planet, Profit!
September 6, 2010
Caroline Smith tries to live a green lifestyle and enjoys the challenge of recycling secondhand items to give them a new lease on life. Here, as a PWF guest writer, Caroline explains ‘freecycling’. _________________________ WHY FREE-CYCLING WORKS A major tenet […]
August 31, 2010
Commenting on the very positive restaurant business outlook, Restaurant & Catering SA CEO, Sally Neville, says the industry turnover is continuing to grow annually at 7 per cent. This annual growth rate reflects new businesses as well as higher turnover […]
August 29, 2010
The ABC’s Inside Business has provided a very positive picture of Hepburn Wind an Australian community owned social enterprise. This registered cooperative is Australia’s first community owned wind farm. A Strong Conclusion From Collaboration Hepburn Wind chairman, Simon Holmes a […]
August 29, 2010
Cycling IS good for our health and the environment. Helmets DO protect riders. In Victoria you can be fined $146 riding without a helmet. Why did Melbourne start a $5.5 million Bike Share project? Why don’t Sydneysiders cycle? A ‘Melbourne-World’ […]
August 25, 2010
Have you seen the reports about an oil-eating microbe that scientists have found ‘flourishing’ in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil rig explosion? Terry Hazen, researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, reported the finding in […]
August 21, 2010
The Age’s Ross Gittins made some election day observations on broad economic management that resonated with this voter: Dodging Climate Change Climate change is roughly equivalent to the GST in unpleasantness for the public. In dodging it our leaders are […]
August 10, 2010
CERES, Melbourne’s award-winning Community Environment Park in Brunswick is running a new series of Sustainable Home Workshops Saturday afternoons 1.30pm-3.30pm. They will focus on reducing our environmental impact at home, for example: Insulation and Glazing Green Cleaning Buying Green Living […]
July 28, 2010
Paul has contacted PWF to introduce a brand new, very comprehensive, green and community resource. The Blue’s Green Mate website is a forum, directory and news outlet – with news feeds from Alternative Energy News, The UK Guardian-Environment, The Independent-Green […]
July 26, 2010
Are you looking for a space for your next function or do you need to hire a hall for an event, workshop, performance, class or meeting? After heaps of volunteer hours’ work there is now an eco heritage hall for […]
July 22, 2010
Minister Penny Wong has announced an overhaul for the troubled Green Loans program. A new grants-based Greens Start program will be rolled out in response to flaws detected. “The new program will be conducted in two stages. Stage one will […]
July 21, 2010
Interesting to see the word about Community Land Trusts (CLT) is spreading. Liz Page from the Waratah CLT in Bondi, Sydney, is a guest of Sustainable Maleny Qld. They are screening the DVD ‘Homes & Hands: Community Land Trusts in […]
July 12, 2010
The Weekly Times is reporting a situation where Chinese mushrooms with potential health risks have been sold in Australia labelled ‘Packed in Melbourne’. It seems Labor and the Libs are doing nothing about tougher country-of-origin labelling as major retailers are […]