Fresh green links...

No-take zones in Great Barrier Reef a success for fisheries - also working out well for California. Gorgon gas project ’saves’ endangered animals by moving them to a radioactive location - and a national park full of cats, dogs and foxes. Gee, thanks for your efforts to preserve the ecosystem while you take the profits. News just in: carbon pricing works in the long term - so now will our politicians stop...

Plantation toxins in Tasmania...

A scene from Something In The Water Did anyone else watch Australian Story on Monday night? It was about an alliance between a GP, a group of oyster farmers and a Sydney scientist, investigating water quality issues in Tasmania’s George River. The oyster farmers found that their business was suffering because of toxins in the water. A local GP believes there is a cancer cluster in the region her patients are from....

Innovating to zero...

Bill Gates, owner of Microsoft and one of the world’s largest charity organisations, has come out on the side of the greenies. He’s realised the importance of fixing climate change, and he’s come to that realisation via his interest in relieving extreme poverty around the world. Last week, he gave a fascinating TED talk. You might have heard me mention TED talks before, they feature speakers who are...

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First large-scale solar station in WA - should be up and running by 2011, up in Carnarvon. It’ll be extra good because it’s supplying energy to remote areas not on the north-west or south-west grids, and will provide most energy when demand is highest in that area. Single-stream recycling: what is it? how do you get it? - a short video over at Twilight Earth. We’ve got single stream in most of Perth,...

Green cleaning...

So my New Year’s theme this year is “Reduce”. One of the things I’ve been doing to help this along is to declutter my house. I feel like getting rid of stuff, preferably to charity or to be recycled instead of creating landfill, will help me keep focused on my journey to live more simply and sustainably. Yesterday I tackled my laundry. I can’t believe how much junk was in there! Plus cardboard...

Good to know…...

Happy Valentines Day! There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer...

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Want to live in a hi-tech green home in NSW? Then the NSW government has an offer for you! One family gets to live in the house rent-free for a year to assess typical family energy use in a low-impact situation. WA drought is proof of climate change - the short version is that all the rain we used to get in the South-West has shifted down off our coast and become part of a pressure system that puts snow on Antarctica....

Sustainable living events in Perth...

Just a quick note to let you know about a couple of sustainable living events coming up in Perth. Perth Sustainable Living Festival - this started last week and will continue for another two weeks at City Farm and the Northbridge Piazza. There’s talks and stalls during the day, and movies (one fiction movie for kids and one documentary for adults) on the Saturday nights. Perth Sun Fair - Sunday 28th of March on...

Better eating on busy days...

I recently did the Tiny Choices reader survey, and they posted mine last Friday. If you’re not a regular reader of Tiny Choices, or haven’t heard of them before, I highly recommend subscribing to their posts either by RSS or email. They’re one of the first eco-blogs I started reading and are always full of useful information with an upbeat attitude. And the readers there are lovely too. As an example,...

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Greenpeace and Fire Brigades Employees’ Union report on increased risk of bushfires if nothing is done about climate change. The 8-page report is available at their site, and I’ve put the video which summarises the concerns of firefighters. Senator Bob Brown compares climate policies - on Lateline. Forget the laughable Coalition proposals, the Greens are putting forward a compromise with the Rudd government...