Articles tagged ‘Sustainability – current stories’.

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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Scrap wasteful oil and gas tax breaks and invest in ocean protection
The Federal Government could save $2.3 billion in the 2012-13 Budget by scrapping wasteful and inefficient tax breaks to the oil and gas sector and ot...
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The meat on my plate
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Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden When I was around 16 years old I was sitting in the back of my parents’ car as we drove along on our way t...
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Council pursues Western Reserve option
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Despite widespread opposition, Council is pursuing its indoor pool option at the Western Reserve. This week Council has presented a concept design aft...
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Community wind hits the streets
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Last week residents met with the Mount Alexander Community Wind Working Group to guide the six-month strategy for Mount Alexander Community Wind, incl...
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The PM believes in fairytales (so how come she won’t disappear in a cloud of fairy dust?)
Let's make Pakistan next!
By Anonymous Since when is a meeting in a bar a “modern-day fairytale”? Did Fred and Mary have a drunken shag in the dairy and then he won...
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The critical decade
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The red zone is run away climate change, what we get  if we can’t keep the global temperature rise below the ‘safe-ish’ two degrees rise. T...
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CFA chemicals linked to cancer deaths
Carcinogenic chemicals stored at the Country Fire Authority (CFA) headquarters in regional Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s have been linked to the dea...
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Why solar parity scares big utilities
… This might explain why state governments, in Victoria and NSW in particular, are happy to delay the rollout of renewable energy at a large sc...
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Indian uranium plan fails nuclear test
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ACF yesterday welcomed expert advice that any planned move to sell Australian uranium to India would be unlawful. The confirmation comes ahead of this...
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Rally against pokies!
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  Read the complete archive of poker machine stories by clicking the problem gambler at left  ...
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Minister’s investment in CSG sends worrying message to communities
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Victorian Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Ryan Smith, allegedly has personal investments in the Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry. He has ...
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A guide to local produce
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For the past 18 months or so Ellen Madigan has been working on a great new project for the shire, and it will be launched on Thursday 24 November at t...
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Conference calls for wind farm policy change
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Victoria’s wind farm policy threatens regional development and should be changed, according to delegates at a national Community Power Conference in...
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Central Victoria Solar City seeks partners
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As a partner of Sustainable Regional Australia (SRA), the lead proponent of the Central Victoria Solar City project, your community could improve its ...
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Loan to Kiva
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CI has been loaning money to workers in poor countries through an organisation called Kiva. Verónica Natividad from Ecuador is our sixteenth loan. V...
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Leaders discuss climate change adaptation for Bendigo
Government, industry leaders and academics will meet in Bendigo this week to workshop designs for local adaptation to climate change. Victoria Univers...
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Our forests online
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Words and images by Alison Pouliot The International Year of Forests may be drawing to a close, but we need to consider every year as a year to fight ...
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Small steps
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By Peter Dewar* Conservation of the world’s wilderness areas is integral to everything Sanctuary Retreats do – and their lodges and camps ...
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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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Talk on Take 3
Talk by Tim Silverwood at the Ray Bradfield Room, Castlemaine on Tuesday, 6 December at 7pm. Tim will speak on the Take 3 initiatives, his role as Amb...
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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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Landmark climate law decades in the making
Australia’s new clean energy law, passed through the Senate today, is the result of more than a decade of effort by countless Australians who have w...
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Selling off a natural wonder for fossil fuel greed
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Gladstone Ports Corporation is undertaking the biggest dredging operation ever attempted inshore from the Great Barrier Reef, and the Australians Gree...
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Take 3 and help save marine life
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NSW Central Coast environmentalist Tim Silverwood has returned from a research expedition to the North Pacific Gyre – aka Great Pacific Garbage ...
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25 more years supporting nukes
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The Australia-US deal over the Naval Communication Station at North West Cape threatens Ningaloo Reef and needs a complete overhaul, the Australian Gr...
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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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An occupier’s perspective
Who would have thought this, on the streets of Melbourne?
By Isaac Sutcliffe I’m not sure who first came up with the idea of occupying Wall Street. I remember the first I heard of it was from the “hac...
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The Tankulator: water saving made simple
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With the Bureau of Meteorology predicting a likely wetter season over most of Australia, now is the ideal time for householders to save water and mone...
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World environmental leader for Bendigo
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World renowned environmentalist Paul Hawken is heading to Bendigo on 28 October, and Bendigo Sustainability Group has plans for a massive celebration ...
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Community delegates say yes to a carbon price
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Bridgid Soames, a sustainability educator from Woodend, is one of 30 volunteers from around Australia who will be travelling to Canberra next week ahe...
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Bendigo to host national energy conference
John Martin, Director, Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities
Bendigo will host a major national conference in November showcasing how communities are tackling energy price rises. The Community Power Conference o...
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