Articles tagged ‘Inventors’.

Showcasing local sustainable houses
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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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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RedBeard takes home top tourism award
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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Design Sunday: touch screens – “pictures under glass”
Bret Victor and the future of interaction design
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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New ways of seeing – connecting with forests across the hemispheres
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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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Growing tomatoes – and a killer bug spray
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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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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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Is there a horse race on today, or something?
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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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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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Design Sunday: Showcasing local sustainable homes
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 jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 15 October.  The tour...
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Blade Electric Vehicles partnership to create 350 new high-tech jobs
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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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Pioneers of permaculture celebrate with new book
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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Design Sunday: Trees and solar power… takes a kid to make the connection.
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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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Historic camera club’s looking to the future
Castlemaine Camera Club members on recent photowalk in Kalimna park.
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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Affordable housing manual on the way
 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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Films to make a difference
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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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Design Sunday: Student-built homes delivered far and wide
One of the homes begins its journey
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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Training package for business
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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Weekend read: Yale opens its archives
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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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Kranium – a new bike helmet
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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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Castlemaine knitters rock
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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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Buda’s 11th Biennial Leviny Commemorative Award Exhibition
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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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Sunday design: Ostrich
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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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Here stood Castlemaine: competition results announced
I am reading todays CI and found this competition.  The attached is a cartoon I had already done on the same issue.  At about that time in the future 1. You will find my lost car keys and  2. Humans will be mining the rubbish dumps of today to reprocess the plastics and metals. By Jenny Nestor
The results of our competition are announced today. Simon and Jenny win a prize pack from the CI shop....
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RedBeard scoops national awards
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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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Handspring Puppet Co: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
“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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One word: lignins
The world consumes 90 million barrels a day of oil 140 litres in a barrel One cubic kilometer of oil every three months. A swimming pool from Melbourne to Sydney, 1000km long, 1km wide, 1m deep, full of oil. The world consumes that in three months. And the rate is speeding up, not slowing down.
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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Flying the flag for sustainability
Artist Alice Steele and Dean Bridgfoot at the launch this morning
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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Snip the wires! (or tune in) WMAfm now on 94.9
Program Manager since the year dot, Ian Braybrook. Pic: Matt Wobbly.
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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Weekend read: Tapping the sheltermaker gene
Architect and sheltermaker Peter Cowman
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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Hybrid electric bike
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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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Holiday reading: What’s in a bag of beans?
By Andrew McKenna Published 6 July 2010 There’s a great story behind Castlemaine’s Coffee Basics. It involves Turkish sieges, pastry chefs to ...
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‘These guys are trying to visualise the universe’
Mark Guglielmetti, seriously pondering the complexities of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and the floods from Hurricane Katrina
By Andrew McKenna Mark Guglielmetti lectures at Monash University in multimedia and digital art. In November, after he was nominated by his faculty, ...
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Architecture and the meaning of life
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‘House design offers immense scope for making positive change in our lives. If we ask ourselves the right questions about how we want to live an...
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Resistance to tyranny
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By Andrew McKenna Last night at the Theatre Royal I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Wikileaks furore as Shane Howard launched into his tribute ...
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