People, Planet, Profit!
August 1, 2007
The Daily Telegraph’s Small Business Reporter, Andrew Caswell published an excellent article about Sydney based food and energy business, Gardner Smith’s employee share ownership plan. According to the article, Why The Laughing? Because these workers own the company, whether they […]
July 31, 2007
There’s been much talk about last night’s 4 Corners report by Liz Jackson on the highly controversial approval process for Australia’s biggest pulp mill in Tasmania this morning. Today we received this email from one of our frustrated readers, Greg […]
July 30, 2007
A proud Gippslander has sent us this news about Australian cheeses making their debut on the Italian ‘Slow Food’ stage, as reported recently in The Age Epicurean. Australian cheeses will be making their first appearance at Cheese, Slow Food International’s […]
July 25, 2007
Last week we asked Why Not “Clean Green Print” Your Next Print Run? Well, this week Melbourne independent publishers, Aduki Independent Press and Vignette Press have announced they will stick to a new set of “ethical publishing guidelines”. The guidelines […]
July 24, 2007
There’s been quite a lot of talk about David Marr’s Quarterly Essay, His Master’s Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard. It is indeed a cracker of a read but is there anything he says that relate to the […]
July 24, 2007
Walk with members of The Sustainable Living Foundation to find out more about the products, companies and related issues that are part of your weekly supermarket shopping adventures. Food miles, genetic engineering, multinational ownership, packaging and much, much more in […]
July 20, 2007
It doesn’t take much imagination or an insider’s knowledge to work out that printing can be tough on the environment. But as consumers, there’s much we can think about to reduce the environmental impact of that next print run. To […]
July 19, 2007
When we last wrote about 457 Visas in March, we would never have predicted they would hit the news like they have in the past couple of weeks. Previously we looked at a few companies who abused the scheme by […]
July 18, 2007
“Don’t Eat That. You Don’t Know Where It’s Been!” How many times have we been warning our children just that? But is it time we start thinking about where and from how far away our food really comes from? In […]
July 17, 2007
“Don’t wait for the crash (2010) Get off now! Invest in oil-free transport – fuel cells, trains, bicycles.” This ad in Aduki pdf p 19 magazine, placed by Australian Ethical Investment and Superannuation, is the first reference I have seen […]
July 12, 2007
Think Global, Map Local! The Warrandyte Neighbourhood House (WNH) recognises how strongly local people feel about their beautiful natural environment in one of Melbourne’s ‘green wedges’ – the last council election was pretty much fought on the preservation of the […]
July 8, 2007
Science is definitely NOT my forte but after hearing a couple of ’30-somethings’ talking about California’s Hydrogen Highway – for cars running on hydrogen fuel cells – I jumped straight on the net to find out more. Some ‘hydrogen science’ […]