People, Planet, Profit!
November 23, 2011
Following is an article by Vanessa Barrington, about the collaboration between Baltimore’s Department of Planning, Office of Sustainability, and Health Department. These groups show how an active, involved city government and a willingness to try new ideas can change the […]
November 23, 2011
Kristin Wartman, Nutrition Educator and food writer, a leader of the Occupy Big Food rally in lower Manhattan, writes saying: “Whose food? Our food!” This was the rallying cry at the first Occupy Big Food event on Saturday in Zuccotti […]
November 23, 2011
Chris Plumridge has contacted us about a software consultancy company called Naturally Being. He is the Strategic Business Manager for this local Mobile Solutions house that assists with developing and designing strategies for iPhone, iPad, Windows Mobile, Android & Blackberry. […]
November 19, 2011
The Centre for Social Impact at the University of Western Australia (UWA) will run a one day Indigenous Business, Corporations and Entrepreneurship Conference on 6 December 2011 at UWA Business School. Indigenous business ventures, the work of Aboriginal Housing organisations […]
November 17, 2011
Food security is a concern and a soft commodities (commodities grown not mined) and rural land boom is being forecast to start in Australia. The growing risk of inflation as well as growing demand for soft commodities from Asia could […]
November 16, 2011
For several months now Victorians have been compelled to join up to the Smartmeter grid. A long time PWF reader, Kate Everke, has contacted us saying: “Most people I have spoken with are against the roll out. We have conducted […]
November 11, 2011
The Federal Government has approved the first technique which will allow farmers to earn money for reducing carbon pollution. The Carbon Farming Initiative Pig farming is the first industry approved to reduce methane emissions and trade carbon offsets. The Carbon […]
November 10, 2011
There is a dispute between the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) and Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) over Fortescue’s Solomon Hub Pilbara iron ore mine, its next major project. FMG has been accused of supporting the Wirlu-murra splinter group to divide the […]
November 10, 2011
Two comments from the recent 2011 Net Impact Conference ‘reached’ me. The first by Craigslist founder, Craig Nemark: “I don’t feel I am an activist. I just get stuff done.” The second, an African proverb, by Lord Michael Hastings (Commander […]
October 2, 2011
The weekend sees Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas take off and there are lots of Australian cities running TEDx ‘fests’. About TED TED (Technology, Environment, Design) is a global ideas movement that posts ‘ideas worth spreading’ online. It covers a […]
October 2, 2011
Social enterprises are organisations that trade to fulfill their social or community mission and Nina Yousefpour from Queensland University of Technology has emailed PWF, asking social enterprises to participate in and pass on their web survey into strategic orientation of […]
October 2, 2011
Have you heard about Infoxchange Australia‘s new role for its social enterprise, GreenPC? Sorting & Recycling Old Technology Pilot For 10 years GreenPC has been re-manufacturing computers and laptops and making them available at low cost to health care card […]