Articles tagged ‘Inventors’.
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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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: available on iPhone/Smartphones. Simply go to your App store and grab a free RSS reader (for iPhones – ‘Free RSS ...
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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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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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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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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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RedBeard Historic Bakery in Trentham has won an RACV 2011 Victorian Tourism Award: the Minister’s Encouragement Award. RedBeard co-owner Alan Reid p...
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By Tim Preston The link below will take you to Bret Victor’s brief rant on interaction design (the design of how we physically work with technol...
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As the International Year of Forests draws to a close, Alison Pouliot reflects on the importance of connecting with forests across the globe. It takes...
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By Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden It’s mid-spring (apparently) and if you have a protected spot in the garden from our obligatory late ...
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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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As there’s a horse race somewhere in the world today, or something, CI brings you a review of the Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine, an...
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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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Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 15 October. Â The tour...
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A new joint venture between Blade Electric Vehicles, DLG Battery Limited and IRES Asia Pacific Pty Ltd is bringing 100 new hi-tech jobs to Castlemain...
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A new book - Permaculture Pioneers – will be launched on Saturday 17 September 10-4pm at Winters Flat PS. Central Victoria has always been one of ...
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Aidan Dwyer has developed a photovoltaic array based on tree structures as represented by the Fibonacci Sequence. This array collects more energy in a...
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The Castlemaine Camera Club is excited about the future of photography. The historic club one of the oldest camera clubs in Australia has a new comm...
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 In recent weeks MACCL (Mount Alexander Community Land Limited) has been informed that funding is almost complete ($100,000) to produce manuals on le...
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The Possible Futures Film Contest, a joint project of FOUR YEARS. GO. and The Pachamama Alliance, received 317 films from film makers in 44 countries ...
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Victoria University trade students are building transportable wooden homes for customers who haul them to every corner of the state as granny flats, b...
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With a new financial year ahead, businesses and not-for-profit organisations in central Victoria are invited to participate in a heavily subsidised pr...
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Scholars, artists and anyone around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives,...
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A new style of bike helmet designed by Anirudha Rao uses a waterproof cardboard matrix as the lining. This design is stronger and lighter than polyst...
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Saturday was big for knotters. “World Wide Knit in Public Day” included a major event on Federation Square, all Spotlight Stores and Lincr...
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A large number of guests, including many from interstate, gathered at Buda Historic Home and Garden in Castlemaine on Sunday, 5 June to celebrate the ...
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Working patterns are constantly evolving. We gradually spend more time in our working environments, and this in turn means that we often need to make ...
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The results of our competition are announced today. Simon and Jenny win a prize pack from the CI shop....
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By Andrew McKenna It was a Parisian-themed night of nights for the Australian baking industry last week in Brisbane, and local bakers Redbeard, based ...
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“Puppets always have to try to be alive,” says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and ...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘We’re heading towards Peak Oil, whether real or political. All you need is OPEC to say “This is how much we will produceâ...
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The Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) in Castlemaine has developed a lovely project called Flying the Flag for Sustainability. Its purpose w...
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Mt Alexander’s local community radio station went live to air to launch its brand new frequency this morning. WMA fm – that’s Wirele...
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By Andrew McKenna ‘Okay I live in this world, what way am I living?’ This is a question Irish architect and ‘sheltermaker’ Pet...
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M55: the beast hybrid electric bike In the hybrid bicycle, a sensor monitored drive system automatically optimizes the power input of the motor relat...
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