People, Planet, Profit!
May 8, 2007
Worldwatch Senior Researcher Brian Halweil argues that while the scientific evidence isn’t necessarily there, eating local food has to be better for your health. Click the “read the rest of the article” link to watch the two minute YouTube video.
May 6, 2007
Sustainability Forum – $35 including morning tea & lunch – at the Melbourne Business School, Carlton, will focus on global warming and its part in sustainability. Four organisations will present the steps they’ve taken towards sustainability: 1. South East Water […]
May 6, 2007
Kevin Rudd has promised a $300 million solar/water plan that means about 200,000 households could get cheap loans of up to $10,000 to install ‘green devices’. Repayments would be ‘in line with capacity to pay’ and the policy could generate […]
May 6, 2007
Cooloola Shire, SE Qld, has joined the Climate Change groundswell. Zela Bissett emailed us about their small steering committee ‘trying to get things sorted’ for the region’s new Sustainability League. They have a lot of issues to deal with, so […]
May 1, 2007
An alarming number of potential workers who are blind or have low vision are unemployed or too discouraged to look for work Last month Vision Australia published a report stating that an astonishing 63% of people who are blind or […]
April 28, 2007
The world’s largest cities have a big role to play in the fight against climate change. As cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world’s energy consumption, the world’s 40 largest cities meet every two years at the C40 Large […]
April 26, 2007
There is a huge amount of interest in power-assisted electric bikes! After reading Ray Fealy’s comments in ‘Electric bike ‘limits’…can we change the law?‘ Graham Bradshaw, EO of the Retail Cycle Traders Industry – the national association for specialist bicycle […]
April 24, 2007
The ANZ Bank plans to hire more indigenous rural and regional staff Great to hear ANZ chief executive John McFarlane announcing plans to recruit at least 300 young indigenous trainees by 2009, and and to promote 20 indigenous employees on […]
April 22, 2007
Seeing the breadth and passion of grassroots action groups in North America, the UK, Ireland and a few here in Oz – all working towards a sustainable future – I am amazed there has been NO news coverage of their […]
April 20, 2007
Restaurants raise $113,450 for programs to help the homeless You might remember our report of StreetSmart Australia, the charity campaign run Melbourne and Sydney restaurateurs, last year. The campaign, which started in the UK, involves participating restaurants over the period […]
April 17, 2007
A big ‘Congratulations!’ to Bev and Noel Fisher for their much talked about Tranquil Hills Pig Lovers’ Pignic in Cobram over the Easter weekend. Over 400 people came from all over Victoria to see celebrity pig couple, Arnold and Precious, […]
April 12, 2007
What exactly are we talking about when we refer to ‘cultural heritage’? While researching an update to last year’s Burrup Peninsula story, we came across a fascinating poll hidden on the margins of the Australian Conservation Foundation website. When asked […]