Technology
August 13, 2007
Drought has put people under siege all over Australia. Of those taking it as hard as you could ever imagine are the people in the Victorian Shire of Murrindindi who rely on Lake Eildon and its feeders for their very […]
August 3, 2007
Australians are only recycling 3 per cent their mobile phones according to a recent investigation by the Total Environment Centre. According to an ABC Report each year eight million mobile phones sold in Australia and these are being replaced every […]
July 25, 2007
Last week we asked Why Not “Clean Green Print” Your Next Print Run? Well, this week Melbourne independent publishers, Aduki Independent Press and Vignette Press have announced they will stick to a new set of “ethical publishing guidelines”. The guidelines […]
July 20, 2007
It doesn’t take much imagination or an insider’s knowledge to work out that printing can be tough on the environment. But as consumers, there’s much we can think about to reduce the environmental impact of that next print run. To […]
July 17, 2007
“Don’t wait for the crash (2010) Get off now! Invest in oil-free transport – fuel cells, trains, bicycles.” This ad in Aduki pdf p 19 magazine, placed by Australian Ethical Investment and Superannuation, is the first reference I have seen […]
July 8, 2007
Science is definitely NOT my forte but after hearing a couple of ’30-somethings’ talking about California’s Hydrogen Highway – for cars running on hydrogen fuel cells – I jumped straight on the net to find out more. Some ‘hydrogen science’ […]
July 5, 2007
If you discovered us by coming to read our recent stories about electric bikes, Melbourne to Sydney? An electric bike is ’suit-able’!, Legislation to increase electric bike power? and Electric bike ‘limits’…can we change the law?, you might want to […]
July 3, 2007
PWF reader, Mary Jane Gleason writes: “Thanks for your work, could I encourage you to consider including a link to the “The Coming Biofuels Disaster” in your next newsletter to give the “other side” of the biofuels debate? It’s a […]
June 7, 2007
And are the big telecommunications companies really willing to give it to us? It’s election time and the political parties and the big telecommunications companies are trying to nail each other on a better broadband network. But where do WE […]
June 2, 2007
Back in April we reported on Donortec a new service that provides Nonprofit access to technology donated by Microsoft & Cisco. Donortec is a small nonprofit, without a massive advertising budget and appreciates those with newsletters passing on their info. […]
May 30, 2007
All you need to do to raise money for charity is click the boxes, promises new Melbourne based website Jehan Ratnatunga, Simon Griffiths and Matt Tilleard looked at ways use the power of internet to spark real and positive change. […]
May 15, 2007
While the debate on broadband mostly centers on speed and reach of fast broadband applications, the real nub of the debate is price. Not price of cable roll-out but end price to the consumer. If we end up with unaffordable […]