There’s nothing black or white about organic agriculture

Posted by The Conversation in News 6 hours ago

By Verena Seufert, McGill University.  Food is an emotional topic. Everyone cares about what they eat. Food often has a strong cultural, religious or even…

Karma Coffee Cups with your company’s branding!

Posted by New Leaf Corporate in Products 7 hours ago

Karma Cups are great solutions to take away paper cups. An average cafe uses 6-8kg of coffee every day. Roughly 400-600 cups per day. Every…

Agriculture to share $72.5 million in research grants

Posted by Clean Energy Future in News 7 hours ago

Researchers inspect an automated system that samples emissions year-round. Image courtesy of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. More than 100 research and demonstration…

Narrow escape for Reef as Government fast-tracks another new coal terminal

Posted by Greenpeace Australia in News 10 hours ago

As a stricken cargo ship drifts over the Greet Barrier Reef, Greenpeace is renewing its call on Environment Minister Tony Burke for a moratorium on…

Set the controls for the heart of the sun: time for solar courage

Posted by The Conversation in News 13 hours ago

By Lynette Molyneaux, University of Queensland.  John Gardner, US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare joined Lyndon Johnson’s cabinet in 1965 to help create a…

Human Cities Wrap Up

Posted by Urban Reforestation in News 17 hours ago

Human Cities Festival Wrap up In March the Human Cities Festival took place in Brussels. One of the major components of the festival was to…

Ship break down demonstrates dangers of shipping boom

Posted by The Australian Greens in News 2 days ago

The Australian Greens are calling on the Government to press pause on plans to massively increase shipping for fossil fuel exports throughout the Great Barrier…

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

Posted by Centre for International Forestry Research in News 2 days ago

Most tropical forests outside protected areas have been or will be selectively logged so it is essential to maximize the conservation values of partially harvested…

Abbot Point port crumbles in reprieve for Reef

Posted by The Australian Greens in News 2 days ago

In a reprieve for the environment, the climate and the Great Barrier Reef, the Queensland Government has decided that the massive coal export facility expansion,…

Apple responds to customers, starts down road to clean energy iCloud

Posted by Greenpeace International in News 2 days ago

This week, after hundreds of thousands of Apple customers and Greenpeace supporters asked the company to use clean energy instead of dirty coal, it announced a significant investment in local renewable energy to power its data centre in North Carolina,…

Tiger recovery efforts progressing, urgent action still needed to fight poaching

Posted by World Wildlife Fund in News 3 days ago

New Delhi, India – Tiger range countries in their first meeting to review efforts on doubling the number of wild tigers by 2022, reported significant progress, but recognized that urgent and elevated action is still needed to halt poaching.

“Stea…

Gillard starts Darwin gas plant, women pensioners stop gas development at James Price Point

Posted by The Wilderness Society in News 3 days ago

Media Release The Wilderness Society (Inc.) 18 May 2012

A tale of two Browse Basin gas developments
Julia Gillard starts Darwin gas plant construction work on Darwin gas plant
Women pensioners lock themselves to vehicle, stopping work at James Pri…

Tassie win on battery hens, sow stalls: federal action needed

Posted by The Australian Greens in News 3 days ago

Tasmania’s move to ban battery hens and fast track a phase out of sow stalls should push the Gillard government to lead all Australian jurisdictions…

Beautiful 4MyEarth Organic Cotton Scarf

Posted by 4myearth in Products 3 days ago

Delicately hand spun and hand woven for great random texture and tone making each piece unique so that no two scarves are exactly the same….

Push to quantify social impact of science goes global

Posted by The Conversation in News 3 days ago

By Justin Norrie, The ConversationAustralia is preparing to join a worldwide push to map the wider social returns on investments in science.

This week Professor Julia Lane, who developed and led the US National Scie…

$20 million to help small business and community groups with energy efficiency

Posted by Clean Energy Future in News 3 days ago

The Australian Government has announced more than $20 million in grants to improve energy efficiency in small and medium businesses and community groups. Energy Efficiency…

Genetic safety in numbers, platypus study finds

Posted by University of Sydney in News 3 days ago

Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from…

Rural bushland investment makes commercial sense

Posted by Carbon Neutral in News 3 days ago

Want to own a rural retreat that benefits the environment and your back pocket? Carbon Neutral’s Trees for Tomorrow revolving land fund project does just…

Can Australia afford the dingo fence?

Posted by The Conversation in News 3 days ago

By Corey Bradshaw, University of Adelaide and Euan Ritchie, Deakin UniversityWe feel we have to set the record straight after some of our (Bradshaw’s) comments were taken grossly out of context, or not considered a…

iSaveH2O

Posted by Cally Sheehan in Products 3 days ago

Smart WaterMark has developed Australia’s first mobile rain tank calculator – iSaveH2O – available as a free download from iTunes. The application is designed to…