March 19, 2008
Nutritionist Rosemary Stanton writes in Online Opinion saying that though she believes the National Heart Foundation (NHF) does an excellent job informing the community about many aspects of healthy living, she has some concerns about their Tick program. What Does […]
March 7, 2008
Here’s a roundup of current aquaculture news snippets courtesy of the Fish eNews fortnightly newsletter. 1. Australian Bight Abalone First Aquaculture Project To Achieve Carbon-Neutral Rating The West Coast’s ABA has been successfully assessed by an environmental auditor and Dr […]
March 1, 2008
The Centre For Multi-Cultural Youth Issues CMYI is a community based organisation that advocates for the needs of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds. It combines policy development and direct service delivery with a community development approach that gives […]
January 21, 2008
Pete Aldin is a personal and professional coach. He runs Great Circle, helping people interact more effectively with the people they lead, with their families, with their colleagues and partners. A PWF reader has alerted us to Pete’s success story. […]
January 16, 2008
Waverley Industries (WI), of Notting Hill, Melbourne – a Not-for-Profit operating since 1984 – provides employment opportunities for disabled people. With a new warehouse and undercover storage area that can accommodate semi trailers and containers they now have approximately 600sqM […]
January 4, 2008
Local living economies are fascinating and now Alan Greig writes to us about a Spanish example that has operated in and around the town of Mondragon in northern Spain since the 1960s – one of the largest enterprise conglomerates in […]
December 21, 2007
Did you hear about the Rwandan Coffee Club on the ABC’s 7.30 report this week? “Three families who survived the genocide in Rwanda and moved to Tasmania as refugees have come up with a unique way to help those back […]
December 20, 2007
The Fish eNews fortnightly newsletter produced by Austasia Aquaculture is reporting on job opportunities in Whyalla and on developments in producing southern bluefin Tuna fingerlings and baby snapper. Movement at Clean Seas Tuna Limited Clean Seas shareholders have voted to […]
December 18, 2007
Suzanne Henderson from CACOM – the Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management – has advised us of a Living Co-operatively Symposium to be held at Petersham in Sydney, in Feb 2008. The great potential for co-op solutions – not […]
December 13, 2007
Statistics show that only around one quarter of small businesses take succession planning seriously. Now there is a Federal Government Small Business Succession Planning program – a nationwide awareness-raising initiative, aimed at helping small businesses identify and address the critical […]
December 6, 2007
Do you know about the ‘Hush Collection’? There is a new volume just out. Dr Cathy Crock says it is composed by Paul Grabowsky and is very special. People can find out about it at www.hush.org.au. ALSO, there’s also a […]
December 3, 2007
Have you heard about the campaign targetting the International Whaling Commission? There are currently 578,285 signatures on their petition and the goal is 1,000,000. “Every year thousands of precious mammals are slaughtered in the name of so-called ‘scientific research’. Add […]