Technology
October 12, 2011
Check out A Current Affair’s video clip on the chemical cocktail you may be drinking as breakfast juice. How To Decipher Labels Nutritionists, Australian citrus farmers and a local juice producer – Nudie – give advice on the numbers to […]
October 11, 2011
An in-store spy – the new iPhone Field Agent app as tweeted by Business Your Way, now pays shoppers to provide retailers with in-store intelligence such as staff performance and competitor pricing. Launched in Australia in September, retailers can now […]
October 4, 2011
Congregations, community service agencies, aged care facilities, schools and the central offices of the Uniting Church in Tasmania and Victoria are setting a strong community example with the Synod’s decision to reduce gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. […]
October 2, 2011
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is warning that we need to act on global food security to avoid political chaos and environmental refugees. He notes that the Middle-East upheaval started with protests about the high cost of bread. He says we […]
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
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 […]
August 17, 2011
Vale Ray Anderson. Ray was a sustainability maverick, often called “the greenest CEO in America for his crusade to turn his billion-dollar carpet company into an environmentally sustainable enterprise.” He died last week at his home in Atlanta, at 77. […]
August 12, 2011
Dr Catherine Crock knows how scary hospitals can be for kids. For ten years she has worked at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) where she is in charge of the general anaesthesia list for painful procedures in children with cancer. […]
August 6, 2011
Giles Parkinson reports the following on Climate Spectator. “Hidden away in a government gazette this week was an announcement that China would introduce a national feed-in tariff for solar energy. It took a day or two for the significance to […]
August 2, 2011
Newspapers face both threats and opportunities from radio, TV and the internet. Nick Evershed writes that advertising revenue is falling and new ways of funding journalism are being sought. I certainly discern a sentiment ‘out there’ that there is not […]
August 2, 2011
Farming The Sun’s success in achieving its goal and in being ‘Highly Commended’ in the NSW 2011 Community Sustainability Award is due to collaboration between the community, businesses and government says Adam Blakester – coordinator of the project along with […]
August 2, 2011
No doubt we have all now heard how Gippsland’s Hazelwood power station in the LaTrobe Valley, producer of up to 25% of Victoria’s base load electricity – burning dirty brown coal – will most certainly be closed under a carbon […]