People, Planet, Profit!
January 21, 2010
In the face of horrific road incidents, public violence, rowdy parties and binge drinking, we are all wondering about our young people. What would the 18th century’s Adam Smith say about today’s market-driven individualism? Colin Long, Victorian Greens candidate, says […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
November 28, 2009
PWF doesn’t pass on all GetUp requests but THIS one…at a time when Copenhagen is ????? If you haven’t seen the email, GetUp says: “We’ve just been told there’s a bunch of impressive young Pacific Islanders who can’t afford to […]
November 27, 2009
The Country Hour’s Hobart presenter, Anna Vidot, reports today that while our pollies have been doing very much what pollies do, more than 70 Australian scientists reviewing ‘The Maritime Climate Change in Australia Report Card‘ believe Australia’s marine environment has […]
November 10, 2009
‘Do Something‘ research reports that we throw out AT LEAST $5.2 billion worth of food from home every year. WHAT Are We Doing? Fruit and vegetables are tossed out most, then unfinished restaurant and takeaway meals and then fresh meat […]