Articles tagged ‘Inventors’.

A canteen with a difference
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By Marg Peck What an enjoyable way to spend a Friday morning … the CSC school canteen. There’s a palpable sense of fun and purpose, and th...
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Crowdfunding – what is it?
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A revolutionary source of funding is growing in the fertile technosphere of the internet and is now coming to Castlemaine. CI met with Mez Woodward re...
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The gift of death
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Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.  By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11 December 2012 There’...
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Year of the Golf Ball
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From local filmmaker, David Thrussell, of Faustus Films, on Vimeo. You’re going to love the local content and faces in this film! If you missed ...
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Castlemaine Independent is hot hot hot
This skydiver should have been dead after a fall of 13,000 feet and his parachute didn't open. Who's going to open a parachute for the hard copy press?
CI is hot! and we reopened comments. Ring those bells!   And blow those whistles! Thirteen thousand visits to the site every week! In October, CI...
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Castlemaine Secondary College at the Model Solar Vehicle Challenge
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By Hannah Kacir On the 20th of October, over 25 students and two teachers from Castlemaine Secondary College travelled to Melbourne to compete in the...
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Design Sunday: Hand held CNC machining
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This device combines CNC (computer numerical control) with a hand held router to over come the scale limits on CNC machining – that is the mater...
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Hear what communities think about wind power
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Seventy years ago the Grampians were visible on the horizon from Point Cook, but now you can’t see them from a plane taking off at Tullamarine. Clea...
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Blade-less wind generator
Zero blade wind generator from Saphon. Image via Treehugger
A new design for wind generation from Saphon in Tunisia claims to be more efficient and less expensive to build. Inspired by  sailboats and using hy...
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A man on a mission
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Josh Murdoch is a young man pursuing a dream. The Castlemaine Secondary College student is personalising his learning to take him to where he wants to...
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CI classifieds for free!
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The classifieds software we use recently had an upgrade with significant structural change. Since then we have had a number of people who couldn’...
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Levitating LED light, wirelessly powered
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Chris Rieger from Brisbane has combined two technologies for this project, the wireless power transfer is pretty impressive. Check out Chris’s w...
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Design Sunday: Tigere Chiriga’s floating mug
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 No more hot mug marks on your furniture. Originally made for his own use and now funded by Kickstarter to go onto production. See the full story on ...
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Indian auto giant poised to release air car
Tata Motors of India has scheduled the Air Car to hit Indian streets by August 2012
Will it be the next big thing?  Tata Motors of India thinks so. What will the oil companies do to stop it? It is an auto engine that runs on air.  T...
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Eco-Building On A Shoestring
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with Peter Cowman Saturday June 16th 2-5pm Living Architecture Centre, Yapeen, Castlemaine In this intensive Seminar participants can follow the entir...
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Kyneton as Anything calls for fundraisers
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The Kyneton as Anything project has enjoyed massive community support since the idea became public in January and barely a day goes by without someone...
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The Amazon calls Castlemaine resident
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Castlemaine resident Helena Read is jumping into international action with a pioneering new Primary school program called Jump Up. She has been invite...
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Community Bank® distributes record grants amount
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Last night the Maldon & District Community Bank® Branch  (MDCB) distributed a record $239,000 in grants to community groups and organisations t...
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Community wind power forums well attended
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Wednesday night’s Community Wind Forum in Castlemaine Town Hall marked the last of six held across Mount Alexander Shire in the past three weeks...
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‘It will be the end’
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Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow? By Mike Whitney April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Mounting troubles...
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Eco-Building seminar
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Renowned architect, international teacher and director of the Living Architecture Centre, Peter Cowman will hold an eco-building seminar at Yapeen on...
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Community wind forums
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Mount Alexander Community Wind is hosting six Community Forums across the shire in April and May.  These are an opportunity to hear more about the pr...
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Computer helps Australians riding for gold
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A new computer is giving Australian cyclists the edge as they prepare to chase gold at the London Olympics. The small computer fitted beneath the bike...
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Design Sunday: New roofing material cuts carbon footprint
A prototype thermal system may have a big impact on the carbon footprint of buildings by pulling double duty as solar panels and moderating temperatur...
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Sunday meditation: Five things plants do better than us
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By Sami Grover We need more trees in our cities. But our cities also need to become more like trees. It seems to me that the challenge of building com...
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New Hiut Jeans are getting a Welsh town back to work
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Warning: this is one of those feel-good stories–and a very good one at that. The town of Cardigan, in Wales, was the centre of jean-making for y...
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Showcasing local sustainable houses
The EconoSpace is the brainchild of Irish architect and central Victoria resident, Peter Cowman. The passive solar ‘EconoSpace’ is an abbreviation of the words ‘economical space’. It is a small eco-building which can be constructed without a building permit in the average backyard.
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are proud to be jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 25 Februar...
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Castlemaine Independent readership hits 2,000 a day
The Finish of the Two Thousand Guineass at Newmarket
That’s right. You’re in a large company. Over the past few weeks our readership has been rising rapidly, and the last couple of days we...
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The history of sex in Castlemaine
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By Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky I write about the pool/Western Reserve issue, but not to take a pro or anti position, or for that matter, any position at a...
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Design Sunday: Crowdfunding, trends in product design.
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By Tim Preston Three new trends in product design show how the process of creating new products is shifting. As the previous CAD revolution (Computer ...
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Two!
At the last CI staff meeting
It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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Growing tomatoes – and a killer bug spray
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By Christian Monahan It’s mid-spring (apparently) and if you have a protected spot in the garden from our obligatory late frosts, then I sugges...
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Sustainable cypress
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By Andrew McKenna I was in a dilemma. I needed some timber to build a retaining wall in the back yard. I considered the possibilities: old redgum slee...
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Sunday design: usethings commended at Bendigo Sustainability Awards
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The Bendigo Sustainability Group held the 2011 Inaugural Bendigo Sustainability Awards on Friday night, and Castlemaine’s usethings received Hig...
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