Technology
May 11, 2011
A reader has passed on this excellent website with info on how to calculate all sorts of emissions. It says: “The time to act for the environment is now. We can no longer go on pretending that we aren’t personally […]
April 26, 2011
Samsung’s newest TV is completely solar-powered. It doesn’t run on electricity at all. EcoGeek reports that: “At the CeBIT electronics show in Germany, Samsung unveiled their latest television prototype and it’s the coolest one yet. The 46-inch, 1920 x 1080 […]
April 10, 2011
Nathon Irvin’s Spaceout helps people turn unused space into cash by helping them find or rent out storage, office, parking, rural or commercial space and now Spaceout has posted info about an idea out of San Francisco to share private […]
April 5, 2011
Dr Daniel Bray, lecturer in international relations and teacher of security studies and environmental politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, gives the following explanation of the politics of the current polarised climate change/carbon tax ‘debate’: “Against the instincts of the […]
March 29, 2011
There is an ongoing interest in PWF articles on CoHousing and Community Land Trusts. I’ve just heard a Radio National podcast with ‘Urban Coup’ , an initiative of a group of Melbournians who want to create not just housing, but […]
March 25, 2011
EcoGeek reports how America’s tallest building – the Willis Tower in Chicago – is going green. EcoGeek writers believe there’s a safe balance between technology and nature and the articles on their website explore this symbiosis. Greening America’s Tallest Skyscraper […]
March 24, 2011
The 2nd Sustaining Rural Communities National Conference will be held at the Crossing Theatre, Narrabri, NSW on the 5th and 6th April 2011 with the theme of ‘Transforming Regional Australia’. Registrations close 31st March 2011 and registration is required to […]
March 18, 2011
The content of the Closing the Gap report, 2011, has been called ‘underwhelming’…and it seems SOME insightful thinking on this issue just never sees the light of day, either in political circles it seems, or in mainstream media. Government Should […]
March 16, 2011
Connecting Up 2011 is about making technology accessible, understandable AND practical. Now in its seventh year the conference focuses on how nonprofits and charities can use technology to help them do what they do even better. About The Program Connecting […]
March 10, 2011
Commercial buildings are far more energy efficient than the residential sector according to data released at last week’s Green Cities 2011 Conference by property investment analyst IPD, AND commercial properties outperform non-rated buildings financially, reports The Age newspaper. Sustainability engineers […]
March 9, 2011
Today the SMH reports on consumer power versus corporate power. The Berry Rural Co-operative Society, one of Australia’s smallest rural co-operatives producing fresh milk, is not suffering greatly from the supermarket milk price war. Why not? The coop’s South Coast […]
March 1, 2011
Travellers’ Aid – a Non Profit organisation that has been helping travellers ‘at the point of need’ since 1916 – and the Vic Government’s cross-government Transport Connections Program that aims to help communities work together to improve local transport, are […]