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Climate Care Heads Down Under
Australians may be world leaders in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but with their new government signing Kyoto as one of its first acts in power, it seems change may well be in the air. So, is Australia about to go green in a big way? UK-based
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International Bicycle Film Festival Comes Down Under
By some oversight we’ve missed the opportunity to alert readers to the International Bicycle Film Festival of 2007 until now. After it has already blitzed 13 cities worldwide, it finds itself skidding to a halt for a few weeks in Australia.
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Australia Stepping Back From The Coal-Fired Edge
Climate change is powerfully symbolized by severe drought. Extended, widespread drought can make potable water scarce. Desalination plants are energy intensive and expensive to build and run: the several recently build or planned for Australia may
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Elderly Man Killed By Neighbor for Watering Lawn in Australia
According to CNN, a 66 year-old man was beaten to death on his front lawn by his 36 year-old neighbor for watering it yesterday in Sydney, Australia. Apparently, the pair started arguing over his water usage, and the victim sprayed his neighbor with
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AgScience Corporation Plants 'Extinct' Trees
Maybe you've heard of the Dinosaur Tree? We first noted it back here. The Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) was previously only known from fossil records dating back 90 millions years, give or take a day. It was considered to have gone extinct about two
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Foaming Ocean Whips Beachgoers into a Frenzy
Beach-side foam party gone out of control? Not quite. A shoreline north of Sydney, Australia was transformed into the "Cappuccino Coast," as one journalist put it, with foam swallowing up an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the
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People of Sydney: Tell Us About Your City
Sydney is white Australia's birthplace, settled as a penal colony in 1788. Many of its first white inhabitants would be very surprised to learn that it is now often recognized as one of the world's top ten most liveable cities. Earlier this year it was
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Who On Earth Cares? Cate Blanchett Does
"Everything we buy has an impact on the environment, as all things demand energy, water and other natural resources to produce. People can make a difference to their individual contribution to greenhouse pollution by buying less, wasting less and
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DIY Ideas: Tong Lamp From Mao & More
Ever see a great design and think to yourself, "Hey, I could do that!" or "Looks great; I wish it was green!"? Rather than lamenting the loss of a good design that could have been green, we encourage readers to take matters into your own hands, and
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EcoCity Proposed for Inner Sydney
By 2030 Sydney might have a ecological footprint equivalent to 95% of the state of New South Wales, according to some projections. For perspective NSW has land area twice that of California. It is the most populated city in Australia and ringed by
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ChangeX: Student Green Design Exhibition at GREX Event
ChangeX is an annual exhibition of new graduate designs and ideas that address issues of sustainability, environmental change and responsibility, social equity and community, often directly challenging conventional expectations. The twenty or so
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The (Earth) Hour was Nigh
Someone at Australia’s Sydney Opera House must have bruised knuckles. We can only assume that the display lights on this city icon were supposed to go out at 7.30pm last Saturday like many of the others that went black for the inaugural Earth Hour. But
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PedalPower+, Gadget Charger for FreeWheelers
Remember when we gave some credit to Motorola for releasing a bicycle powered phone charger? Well, it now appears that they had been pipped at the post. Australian company, Copyat Solar, advise us they unveiled their PedalPower+ a whole month before.
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Sunswift III: Fuelless Transport - Exhibit A.
What uses no fuel, but can travel across a country about 4,000 km (~2,500 miles) wide in five days? What can reach speeds of 100 km/hr using as little energy as a vacuum cleaner? What uses 11 square metres of solar panels, instead of 450 litres of
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The Eco-Efficient Major Event Manual
The Eco-Efficient Major Event Manual was launched, with some fanfare, in the middle of 2006. And the premise is very admirable. It is said to help organisers understand the environmental impacts that major events create. It advises how to implement
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Lights Out in Sydney for Earth Hour
In about three months time nighttime Sydney is expected to become sea of darkness. For an hour of no power. Also known by its organisers as Earth Hour. The aim is to get office blocks and householders to turn off their lights for a mere 60 minutes
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The Bower - Traders of the Lost Artefact
During the daylight hours for the past five years I’ve been managing, as a job-share, a community-based reuse centre. My co-pilot and I have, as of 2007, passed the reins to a new manager. Like businesses, such as Urban Ore, in California, we take in
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Something In the Air — Greening Balloon Releases
At the U2 concert in Sydney the other evening, balloons appeared to drift up through the stadium into the night air, to the strains of Bono belting out Kite.* A friend beside me said, "Well, they're up for a big fine." She was referring to
