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Have the Cloncurry people been duped by the company? As I said in my initial article, I can’t help thinking of the Simpson’s episode about the monorail. Continue Reading

In 2004 Peter Njodzeka founded the Life and Water Development Group Cameroon (LWDGC) with a rather simple goal. “ I wanted to see the people in my area have clean water,” he said. “And we kept expanding. That’s how it started.” Continue Reading

Birke Baehr who was a participant in TEDx Next Generation is an 11-year-old who calls it like he see it! Continue Reading

Clinton Global Initiative has now wrapped up and there has been a huge amount of information coming out of New York. Here is our former Prime Minister (and current Foreign Minister) Kevin Rudd discussing the disaster that was Copenhagen last year with exception of a few silver linings Continue Reading

We all know the dangers of plastic in our world – from BPA (Bisphenol A) which at low levels potentially can cause a variety of ailments, including birth defects, infertility and breast cancer. Then there is the damage that is magnified once it enters the environment. Continue Reading

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF) was today welcomed as the first Australian not-for-profit into the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). This announcement reinforces the economic and environmental significance of the Great Barrier Reef on a global scale. Continue Reading

Throughout the Sahel, recurrent drought since the late 1960’s is turning once crop covered land into desert. And the sand is spreading. Picked up by wind, dunes created by soil particles from the West African coastline and the Sahel are covering villages, roads, crops, and irrigation systems, making it increasingly difficult to farm and maintain infrastructure. Continue Reading

Shea butter has been the biggest deal in cosmetics lately but here’s a new contender!  Illipe Butter! Continue Reading

Have you got piles of old CDs sitting in your house? How about some CDs that aren’t even old, you have just copied them straight to your mp3 player and now never use the actual cd? Why not put those CDs to good use and SWAP THEM! Continue Reading

From time to time, we will look at interesting vegetables, berries and fruits that grow naturally in the jungles or other wilderness areas and examine their uses. Continue Reading

Up till now, I thought that the only green mattresses were those lumpy old kapok ones or the coconut fibre ones. But I just heard about this one and because the press release was so informative, I have copied it below.  I am sure we will be hearing a lot about this! Continue Reading

Around 1 million people in South Africa—the majority of whom are recent arrivals from the former apartheid homelands, Transkei and Ciskei— live in the shacks that make up Khayelitsha, Nyanga and the area surrounding the Cape Flats outside Cape Town.  Just under half, or 40 percent, of the population is unemployed, while the rest barely earn enough income to feed their families. Continue Reading

The WA government has sold 19.9% of InterGrain to biotech giant Monsanto. Intergrain produces the seed for 40% of the wheat grown in Australia. Continue Reading

Enviroweek is a week of action, behaviour change and fundraising for environmental organisations around the country.  This really is a great time to take on a challenge that is good for our environment and also a little fun! Continue Reading

Environmental films have a significant role to play in our transition to a more sustainable existence. They have the power to inspire action, inform debate, and encourage serious reflection – of ourselves, our communities and the linkages between us and our broader environment.

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In Australia, it is illegal to cultivate and use Marijuana but the plant itself does have some brilliant uses such as cleaning up the soil – it was actually used in 1998, Phytotech, along with Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP) and the Ukraine’s Institute of Bast Crops, planted industrial hemp, Cannabis sp., for the purpose of removing contaminants near the Chernobyl site. Continue Reading

In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, people are forced to travel long distances and spend hours at a time collecting the water needed for cooking and drinking from far away streams or wells. But the residents of Cabazane, South Africa have found a much less labor intensive alternative. They use gravity and let water come to them. Continue Reading

We are all doing our bit for the environment & cutting meat out of our diet makes a huge impact. So we bring you Meat Free Mid Week Recipes – this week Whole Wheat Lasagna with Italian “Sausage” and Peppers

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