People, Planet, Profit!
December 9, 2007
There is summer feed potential from perennials says researcher Dr Daniel Real from the University of Western Australia. He is investigating two such plants which stay green during summer and are traditional forage in the Canary Islands. Trial plantings in […]
November 30, 2007
Green Pages Australia says Australians are spending over $300 million on bottled water a year. The Bottled Water Alliance, headed by Planet Ark co-founder John Dee, estimates that over 456,131 barrels of oil are used every year to manufacture bottled […]
November 29, 2007
The Sunshine Coast’s Maleny residents are being asked to stand up and demand democracy on Wednesday 5 December. Why? Caloundra Council has ignored 1463 forms rejecting an 18 hole golf course on the Obi Obi Parklands – Maleny Community Precinct, […]
November 27, 2007
The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced locavore as the 2007 Word of the Year. At PWF we continue to see interest in Melbourne’s new 100 Mile Cafe – The Community Cares…So The Hospitality Industry Responds. It seems that around […]
November 26, 2007
A new project has been launched by Australian food researchers to develop cost-effective ways to extract compounds from grape skins, olive leaves, cartilage and cow hides – agricultural and food industry waste – for use in health-enhancing food and nutraceuticals. […]
November 25, 2007
Against a backdrop of big promises in this election two things stand out to me, politicians working with grassroots people and valuing this connection the Coalition’s lack of vision. Malcolm Turnbull, candidate for Wentworth, going against the trend on election […]
November 21, 2007
‘Let’s put the people back into politics’ says The New Democracy Foundation, an organisation that believes political reform starts with the people. They have won a $300K federal government grant to look at ‘Creating And Analysing A Citizens’ Parliament: Exploring […]
November 19, 2007
Four months ago a Green Map for the Green Wedge Warrandyte region in Melbourne’s outer northeast was a germ of an idea. In two days’ time, in conjunction with Bendigo Bank’s launch of its Warrandyte Community Portal the Warrandyte Neighbourhood […]
November 17, 2007
Times have changed since early 2006 when PWF wrote about WA’s mallee eucalypts being good for producing oil, electricity and burning biomass, with the challenge for Narrogin’s Integrated Wood Processing (IWP) bio-energy plant being to prove that the technology exists […]
November 13, 2007
Back in June we wrote about former Melbourne high school teacher, Nick Savaidis, starting up Etiko Sports to provide an alternative to sweatshop-made products and an ethical alternative to the big clothing and footwear brands. We’ve just heard from Nick […]
November 12, 2007
A mix of contemporary and traditional eel farming techniques is the basis of the Lake Condah Sustainable Development Project. The historic, as well as potential eel-harvests – from traditionally-constructed eel aquaculture systems – is being investigated in SW Vic. I […]
November 12, 2007
A reader has advised us of Social Alchemy’s free public forum this Wednesday 14 November, in Sydney. This forum is to build networks with other innovative leaders and develop a better understanding of social innovation… Social Alchemy aims to empower […]