Come on everybody, today is Clean Up Australia Day! The perfect opportunity to get out there in your community and help keep Australia beautiful. Tell us what you have planned for today! Continue Reading
Posted on 07 March 2010 by Rebecca
Come on everybody, today is Clean Up Australia Day! The perfect opportunity to get out there in your community and help keep Australia beautiful. Tell us what you have planned for today! Continue Reading
Posted on 04 March 2010 by Rebecca
Don’t forget that on March 7th Clean Up Australia Day is on! Continue Reading
Posted on 21 February 2010 by Rebecca
Climate change is real and it is transforming the way we live and the way society operates. ‘1 Million Women‘ is a campaign of daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers inspiring climate action. Continue Reading
Posted on 09 February 2010 by Rebecca
The food you buy could be pushing Orangutans to extinction! Palm oil is found in approx 40% of the food products on our shelves & its destroying the Orangutan’s habitat at an alarming rate. Continue Reading
Posted on 28 January 2010 by Rebecca
Could breeding burpless sheep help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions? According to the Herald Sun, scientists at the Sheep Co-operative Research Centre are trying to find out. Continue Reading
Posted on 09 January 2010 by Rebecca
Gorillas are on the brink of extinction. They’re calling on YOU to donate your phone today!
Posted on 06 January 2010 by Wendy
I have traveled quite a bit over the years for work and for holidays, study and cultural exchange. Note that I have probably planted enough trees in my life to balance this activity’s carbon spew quite nicely. Continue Reading
Posted on 20 December 2009 by Wendy
Australia is about to ban the sale of incandescent lightbulbs. The replacements have a completely different look and though they can be purchased in warm or cool tones, they still are not highly visually appealing. Like every revolution, we will get used to the changes, but a fair bit of consumer research is needed. Here’s what you need to know. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 November 2009 by Wendy
Ever really read those redundant and annoying little stickers on fruit and vegetables and try to work out just how far away from your kitchen your tasty treat or clever garnish had been grown? In fact, even this exercise is difficult as seldom is the produce labeled with geographical data, just a brand-name. Every additional step away from your garden that it’s taken to deliver a meal to you is an additional pile of carbon shot upwards to widen that hole in the ozone layer, to heat up our already over-heated world. Continue Reading
Posted on 21 November 2009 by Wendy
I just caught the tail-end of a television programme in which a man was showing how he had tapped into geothermal energy to power his house. He said that all he had to do was drill low enough to draw up the heat and that the infrastructure would pay for itself within five years. Continue Reading