People, Planet, Profit!
March 11, 2008
Here is a great story about a Dad and his two kids and leaders in the making. Dan Levin runs Caulfield South Weather Station in Melbourne, with his two young children, Rachel and Elliot. This – as far as Dan […]
March 4, 2008
Matt Jones, the hardworking director of Sydney-based Social Alchemy, is running another FREE PUBLIC WORKSHOP, with three innovative Australians who will share their perspectives on community wellbeing to build networks with other innovative leaders. . UNPACKING COMMUNITY WELLBEING: Engaging the […]
March 3, 2008
Are you finding you need several science degrees to have an informed opinion these days? I have started googling the pros and cons of several issues and, on the GM debate, found www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk, an award-wining UK website. The Foundation’s Summary […]
March 1, 2008
TRUenergy, an Australian electricity and gas supplier owned by Hong Kong’s CLP Holdings Ltd, paid $40 million for a 20 percent stake in Melbourne-based renewable energy company Solar Systems. They will invest $290 million to build a 154MW solar power […]
February 28, 2008
Humour can be a fantastic way of communicating, so to keep getting the Climate Change message ‘out there’, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are presenting a Mark Watson’s Earth Summit – a totally different […]
February 27, 2008
PWF agrees with Claire Braund, Executive Director of Women on Boards, when she assesses the 2020 Summit as an opportunity to send clear message that Australian thinking, culture and values are the domain of all Australians – not just middle […]
February 24, 2008
The Australian Collaboration believes that: “While the symptoms of Indigenous disadvantage are widely reported, inadequate attention has been given to examples of Indigenous creativity and leadership in tackling problems, NOR to the factors that lead to success in Indigenous organisations.” […]
February 19, 2008
Living Cooperatively: Affordable Housing – Sustainable Development– a Swedish model – has aroused quite a bit of interest, and there were similar ideas on display at Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival. What’s happening in your state or territory? Sustainable Living In […]
February 17, 2008
At Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival this weekend I heard Nick Ray of the ‘Shopping with a Conscience’ Supermarket Tours speak with passion – as usual – about food miles, products, companies and related issues that are all part of our […]
February 14, 2008
Professor Peter Botsman has worked as a volunteer for the Indigenous Stock Exchange since 2003 and currently edits Australian Prospect. With all the commentary on yesterday’s ‘Sorry’ Peter’s words are well worth absorbing – particularly by our pollies? Today, in […]
February 14, 2008
The latest Green Pages Australia newsletter talks about green nightclubs and greening the obviously large numbers involved in the party scene – clever thinking by San Franciscan Paul Hemming, back in 2004. Paul is the owner and founder of Green […]
February 12, 2008
Food Miles, the huge market power of the Coles-Woolies supermarket duopoly, and what we can do about this in our weekly food shopping, are topics being scrutinised fairly closely in some thinking parts of Melbourne – as I’m sure they […]