Technology
March 15, 2010
The Network For Good has published some key trends they’ve learnt from the Haiti relief giving…info for all types of NonProfits. About The Network For Good This organisation, supported by several large American corporations, has created a secure, convenient, online […]
March 12, 2010
The Kinglake Action Network & Development Organisation, KANDO – PWF can relate to this acronym! – is running a water Expo this weekend at trhe Kinglake Temporary Village Community Centre. It’s FREE. RSVP Please Everyone is welcome but could you […]
March 11, 2010
A Brisbane-based company Spaceout.com.au, is giving seniors and retirees a new revenue stream – from their own backyards! Seniors who own their home can now make use of new online services to help them rent out unused space to people […]
March 3, 2010
It has been known for some years that potentially fatal superbugs resistant to all antibiotics are increasing. A reader has put us on to a December ’09 article in ‘Daily Health’, an e-letter published by the UK Health Sciences Institute, […]
March 1, 2010
There is request ‘out there’ to please open up the breast cancer website and click on it (daily if you can) to ensure that free mammograms are still made available to underprivileged women. It only takes only a few seconds… […]
February 26, 2010
This so-o-o-o-o complex topic continues to confound. Today, as our federal government recognises that its support for solar roof panels is stopping the development of other renewables it is reported in London that “The two most influential advisory bodies on […]
February 18, 2010
LIVE is an acronym for Locals Into Victoria’s Environment. This new community organisation is independent, non-partisan and non-profit, based in Melbourne’s City of Port Phillip. Several hundred LIVE Victorians want to address the detrimental human impacts on the planet. They […]
February 17, 2010
Sean Hughes from Skyline Energy (Ecological Solutions for the 21st Century) has provided some information regarding heat pumps vs solar-electric systems. NB Common heat pumps are food refrigerators and air conditioners. If you go to Sustainability Victoria’s pdf file ‘Benefits […]
February 17, 2010
New applications for wool and other natural fibres are expected from an international collaboration between Deakin University, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and Tufts University in the United States. This initiative recently received Australian Research Council Discovery […]
January 23, 2010
Bob Brown and Christine Milne of The Greens – have a ‘Garnautesque’ interim proposal to break the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) deadlock and get Australia actually acting on climate change. The Original Garnaut Proposal Professor Garnaut suggested we have […]
January 22, 2010
Running an event of any sort is hard work and of course the ticketing is never easy. I recently discovered TryBooking, which has a community focus and offers sophisticated technology made simple, accessible and affordable. They have some great reviews. […]
December 21, 2009
The Age’s Paying the price of going solar spells out some problems. Linda, a western Victorian reader, has also alerted us to the problem of doing the right thing but being ineligible for any of the Green Loans available if […]