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Arctic Circle celebrates 3 years of cartoon syndication - congratulations, Alex! If you haven’t seen her cute penguins figuring out eco-issues, check them out today. Extinction tattoos - a living record of endangered animals, a photo essay over at Worldchanging. Sustainable September in WA - lots of events where you can learn about sustainable living, why not check out what’s on the calendar to find something...

Review: The World Without Us...

I’ve been reading The World Without Us, a book by Alan Wiseman which asks the question: what happens to the earth if human beings were to disappear? He starts small, looking at how long it would take for a house to decompose into it’s parts. It’s much shorter than you might realise! Although if you think about how much time we spend cleaning and maintaining our homes, maybe we get an idea of how much effort...

Reducing my use of cling-wrap...

Food Kozy wrapper from Kids Konserve For my birthday, I was given some neat little reusable lunch wraps (thanks, Wendy!). I’ve been using them for the last few weeks and am pretty happy with them. The ones I’ve got are from Kids Konserve, and I like them a lot. They’re flat plastic wrappers in an round-ish shape, with a velcro closure. The idea is to use them instead of cling-wrap for sandwiches and...

Fresh green links...

Southern Right Whale has a calf in the Derwent River, Tasmania - article links to pictures and video. 16 months community service with koalas as penalty for environmental advisor who gave bad koala advice to developers. New Zealand glacier sheds 50m tonnes of ice - it’s gone from a u-shape to an l-shape. Indonesia seeks $2.5billion payout for the north-west Montara oil spill - it destroyed fish stocks and seaweed...

Now what?...

So what does it all this hung parliament stuff mean for those of us who care about the environment? As John Hepburn at Crikey points out, this was the second climate change election (after the 2007 effort) even though neither of the major parties wanted to address it. But the people wanted it on the agenda, and voted as if it had been. As I said yesterday, I think politicians don’t listen to us, and the media doesn’t...

I love the smell of democracy in the morning...

Do Aussies want what's on offer? I love election days. No really, I do! I head off to the primary school down the road from us, dodge the leaflets, buy something from the sausage sizzle or cake stall, line up for a bit while I eat my snack, then put in my 2 cents on who should lead the country. It’s the bare minimum we have to do for democracy, and I’m glad that it works so well in Australia. Other countries...

Fresh green links...

Edited to add: Today is the 1-year anniversary of the Montara oil spill in the north-west of Australia. We are still waiting for the report into the disaster to be released to the public. Giving it all away - Sarhn at Greener Me had her house flooded recently, and had to pack up her family and move out while the repairs happened. When she moved back in, she took it as an opportunity to get rid of her unneeded stuff, having...

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