Technology
September 7, 2009
Peter Smith OAM grew up on the Murray and is heavily involved in multiple water resource groups. Murray Darling Association Lower Murray Working Group (Lock 1 to the sea) MDA SA Reference Committee Rural City of Murray Bridge Water Resources […]
September 4, 2009
When her baby daughter was suffering asthma and eczema Sandra Davies discovered Dominant eco-cleaning products at the Whittlesea Show – on Melbourne’s outer fringe. She was told to take a free sample of laundry powder and try it. That was […]
September 4, 2009
In drought stricken Victoria farmers are doing TAFE courses to find new career paths and to supplement on farm income. Based at Indigo Shire Council in the NE, Rom Reillly, Rural Skills Connect (pdf file) Project Manager, has been instrumental […]
August 24, 2009
A very lucid reader has contacted PWF about several infrastructure projects to which there have been viable alternatives but which have not been discussed in a public forum. Let’s have that discussion… starting with drought-struck Victoria’s desalination plant at Wonthaggi. […]
August 23, 2009
Silence allows the suffering of our Indigenous communities to continue writes Ernest Hunter, a psychiatrist who has worked for many years in remote Queensland. A ‘Frozen Mass Of Lessons Not Learned’ Ernest speaks of hundreds if not thousands of failed […]
August 18, 2009
Sean Riley is a small business operator with a passion for giving it to larger companies that waste his time. He set up iHateHolding.com after many moments of frustration with phone prompt navigation that we all unwillingly endure! How To […]
August 4, 2009
More grassroots advocacy – this time from the third tier of government… A national conference ‘The Future is Relocalisation – Communities in Transition’ will be hosted by the Municipal Association of Victoria 8-9 September ’09. EVENT SUPPORTERS Bank of I.D.E.A.S. […]
July 14, 2009
AgriWest in Melbourne’s west is holding a half-day info seminar 21 July in Melton, looking at the benefit of using biosolids as the price of traditional chemical fertilisers rises. Biosolids? Biosolids are a by-product of wastewater treatment processes, a nutrient […]
July 5, 2009
James Nethery of the Affordable Housing Group Australia has contacted us with info about a much needed affordable housing project he’s working on. It sounds interesting, ambitious. The group aims to make every aspect of their designs as simple as […]
June 17, 2009
PWF has just reported the upcoming Social Traders/TREES Group social enterprise presentation on unemployment and community regeneration in Melbourne and we’ve checked out what some of the businesses in The TREES Group are doing in the UK. Thorpete Gas Services […]
June 15, 2009
A new video channel ‘Survival of the Fastest’ was written up in The Weekend Australian, 14-15 June 2009. This is a collaborative effort between You Tube, the London Business School and Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. The aim Collect ideas and […]
June 12, 2009
Admin Bandit, developed for community organisations has won heaps of accolades, as has its developer, entrepreneur and Canberra mother of two, Nerida Gill, who is passionate about making that ‘hard to fill job’ of treasurer easier and so supporting hardworking […]