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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...

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...

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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...

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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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Greenland crack-up - 2 of Greenland’s largest glaciers lost 29 square kilometers and 10 square kilometers of ice over the last month. Consumer Action: Palm Oil and Review: CFL bulbs - Choice magazine has two excellent articles that will be interesting for greenies. Carbon capture? Not in my yard - Paddy Manning in the Brisbane Times tells about his experience at a conference held by the Global Carbon Capture and...

Six items or less...

After all the politics last week, I’m ready to talk about something more frivolous… Have you heard about the Six Items Or Less challenge? The idea was that a group of people would limit themselves to wearing just six items of clothing for a month. Exceptions included exercise gear, shoes, underwear and so on, but they had to pick their six main tops and bottoms and stay with them for the duration. They had...

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Eco-volunteers earn their sticky bun - Sara Phillips at the ABC’s Environment blog discovers that tens of thousands of Aussies are volunteering their time for environmental or animal welfare causes. Winds of change in Hobart - 4 vertical turbines (12Kw each) installed on a building in Hobart, with more going up in the city soon. Video from ABC News. Controlling soot might help prevent tipping points in climate change...

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Traditional owners take nuke dump fight to court - people from Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory are having a nuclear waste dump forced on their land, but are fighting back every way they can. If you’d like to give them some support, check out the ACF’s Dump the Dump campaign. The Plastiki arrived in Sydney this week - after sailing from the US to Sydney via the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This Lateline...

Green news/events blogs?...

Can you help me? I’m trying to make a list of regional eco-news or events websites across Australia, and would love to hear about any that you read, or that you write for yourself. For example, O2WA is Wilma’s blog and among other information about sustainable design, she posts about any environmental issues that are specific to WA. Plus she runs the Perth Green Drinks, and lets us know about any other green events...

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Climate spending promises: beware of cashed up politicians - a look at what’s happened to previous clean energy and climate research programs this decade. Often a lot of money is allocated to programs that then don’t spend it, and they eventually disappear. PM Gillard is releasing Labor’s revamped climate policy today - I’m not sure what’s in it yet, but I’ll take a look at the competing...