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Travelling Sustainably Up the East Coast

Living green presents its many difficulties that are often solved by simple planning and preparation, but when we hit the road and travel our levels of consumption shoot up as we are engaging in a relatively infrequent activity that doesn’t feature in our daily attempts at sustainability.

The Easiest Way to Source All Things Green

The Easiest Way to Source All Things Green

Sustainable products on Australian supermarket shelves have more than doubled in the past year. However, green washing – marketing spin deceptively used to sell a product has also increased at the same rate. How can consumers identify what is authentic and sustainable, and not be duped by deceptive green marketing?

Recycled Coffee Pod Planters – DIY Time!

Recycled Coffee Pod Planters – DIY Time!

Are you addicted to your morning cup of coffee and love your new pod coffee machine? Well here is a great idea to use those pods instead of just tossing them out!

The Vulnerable Koala: are we in time to save our national icon?

The Vulnerable Koala: are we in time to save our national icon?

This week, the Australian Government listed several koala populations as “vulnerable”, giving them special protection. As a koala researcher and conservation planner, I am most impressed with Minister Burke’s decision.

Innovation of the Week: Tobacco as an Organic Pesticide

Innovation of the Week: Tobacco as an Organic Pesticide

Health concerns over tobacco use have hurt tobacco farmers—the number of farms growing tobacco in the United States dropped from 512,000 in 1954 to 56,977 in 2002. But the poisonous quality of tobacco could help farmers enter the pesticide market.

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Quick and Simple Homemade Ginger Beer

Quick and Simple Homemade Ginger Beer

Ginger and limes are dirt cheap in tropical areas so why not make your own ginger beer?  You can make a ginger beer plant or you can do it the easy way as per the recipe below. 

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Innovation of the Week: Providing the Skills—and the Confidence—Needed to Improve Livelihoods

Innovation of the Week: Providing the Skills—and the Confidence—Needed to Improve Livelihoods

For most women living in rural and remote parts of India, the day begins as early as 3:00am. The flour for the day’s meals needs grinding, livestock need to be fed, breakfast needs to be cooked, and water needs to be carried from wells, rivers, and streams. And that’s all before the children—usually just the [...]

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6 Things Your Money Can Do To Save The Planet

6 Things Your Money Can Do To Save The Planet

Last we heard, fossil fuel is running out, a nuclear station blew up, more than a billion people go hungry, population growth is unprecedented, more people are living in poverty than ever, there is a mass extinction of species going on, most of us eat foods laced with pesticides, farm animals are mistreated (and injected [...]

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Dyeing to renovate your wardrobe.

Dyeing to renovate your wardrobe.

It’s hard to look at tie-dyed clothes without taking a trip back in time – But fear not! There are other ways to dye and be fabulous too!

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Harvest by Haroshi: Skate and Destroy

Harvest by Haroshi: Skate and Destroy

Posted on 25 April 2010. Tags: , , , ,

Broken and old skateboards are given a new lease of life by Haroshi. The laminated maple is defly crafted into series of playful and colourful artworks.

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Swap your MacMansion for a Green house

Swap your MacMansion for a Green house

Posted on 28 December 2009. Tags: , , , , ,

Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the planet! Have you ever stood in your house and prayed for less housework, dusting, maintaining and tidying?

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Green Weddings – Part 1 – The Invitations

Green Weddings – Part 1 – The Invitations

Posted on 03 February 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

Congratulations, you’re getting married! My Green Australia is here to help you guide your way through the amazing amount of information about green weddings! Part 1 – The Invitations

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Fearing the Food We Love

Fearing the Food We Love

Posted on 17 August 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,

Last year thousands of food products containing peanut butter produced by one company, the Peanut Corporation of America, were pulled from store shelves due to salmonella contamination. The company was responsible for supplying over 200 companies with peanut butter for these food products, many of which were ultimately marketed to children. Suddenly our favorite snacks—from [...]

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Contribute To The Internet of Things.

Contribute To The Internet of Things.

Posted on 11 April 2011. Tags: , , ,

With all of this technology available to us and everyone’s wanton desire to be a sticky-beak it’s no wonder that these two things have collided. Enter Pachube. I’ve no idea how to pronounce it but it might just open up a a whole new world of water cooler discussion at the least, or on the [...]

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DIY High Protein Fish Food From Algae

DIY High Protein Fish Food From Algae

Posted on 03 October 2011. Tags: , , , , , , ,

Growing your own fish food for aquaponics is the holy grail for many folk wishing to be autonomous and not dependent on commercial fish food pellets.

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