Articles tagged ‘Sustainability’.
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The Castlemaine Visitor Information Centre is now offering bike hire for visitors and residents. Just like they do in Paris. A range of modern bikes, ...
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Council recently adopted its Heritage Strategy 2012 – 2015, which sets out principles and actions for how keeping, sharing and passing on our cultur...
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The average personal income in China has risen by five per cent a year since the mid 1990s. Yet according to Professor John Knight and Dr Sai Ding in ...
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Dear CI, One of the other candidates in the Calder Ward By-Election referred in his election material to secret plans for wind turbines in Sutton Gran...
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Australia has rediscovered the joy of cooking. Alongside the awakening of the palette, Australians are re-evaluating the social and environmental rela...
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) will stage a protest today at the Future Fund’s headquarters in Melbourne to call on th...
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Words and pictures courtesy of Geoff Park at Natural Newstead. It’s that time of the year again it seems! I spotted this Brown Falcon perched along ...
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[....] We were eating lunch on a high rimrock, at the foot of which a turbulent river elbowed its way. We saw what we thought was a doe fording the to...
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The annual Growing the Harvest Festival is on again over 14-15 April, with sessions and activities for everyone. ‘Meet your local farmer’ session:...
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Dumping CO2 emissions targets, greenwashing brown coal blocking wind farms new coal-fired power station approved sending the cattle up into the high c...
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By Christian Monahan It’s a known fact that in the past I’ve used what money I had to buy books instead of food, not that I’m ashamed of, or glo...
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Local organic activist and writer Christian Monahan from The Produce Garden has released his first in a series of guide books for those who want to st...
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Friends of the Earth welcomes the news that the Victorian government will support Cetus Energy’s development of its specialised hydro generation sys...
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In Canberra today the government announced a further strengthening of ties between Australia and the US. ‘From 2018 Parliament will close and Congre...
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A group of interested Mount Alexander residents visited the Hepburn Community Wind Park on Saturday, 17 March. Tour participants gained insight into t...
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The Victorian Government’s back-peddling on climate change action is alarming, says the Alternative Technology Association (ATA). The ATA is con...
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Dear Sir, I have been amazed and perplexed that there has been no outcry about the exterior appearance of the new Miller homes in Hargraves Street fro...
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EPIC needs a list of members for their appeal to VCAT. If you currently receive EPIC emails you are not a member you should still join. It’s fr...
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Dear CI, A recent VCAT decision (P2179/2011) will have a significant planning impact in the Macedon Ranges region, Mt Alexander and Hepburn Shires. In...
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Exposure to arsenic in soil and mine waste may have contributed to a slight increase in past cancer risk in socio-economically disadvantaged areas in ...
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VLGA President, Cr Samantha Dunn today welcomed the announcement by Environment and Climate Change Minister, Ryan Smith, of Victorian Government fun...
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Resident Doug Ralph found this group of children’s toys washed up in Nicholsons Gully at Moonlight flat after recent floods. The toys were ...
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Greens MP and industry spokesperson says the government cannot continue to prop up the failing car industry without commitments from the industry to m...
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Liberal MP for Bass, Ken Smith, has become the first MP within the Coalition to break ranks over the government’s relentless push for further develo...
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The fate of Queensland’s Bimblebox Nature Refuge lies with how much power Clive Palmer will have over a Queensland LNP Government, as the mining bil...
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The decision by the Castlemaine Branch of the Greens Party to endorse sitting Councillor Bronwen Machin has triggered the departure of former Calder W...
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Yesterday the Bass Coast Shire Council passed a resolution that commits Council to advocating against the expansion of coal seam gas exploration in B...
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By Sally Dakis The ABC has reported that an Australian State of the Climate report has found that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reac...
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A spokesperson from the Mount Alexander Sustainability Group yesterday stated that they are not funded by the CIA and are opposed to the Baillieu go...
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MELBOURNE – The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) welcomes today’s Parliamentary motion affirming support for “the goal o...
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The mining boom driven by billionaire magnates like Clive Palmer is weakening the economy and damaging regional communities and the environment, but t...
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Australia should consider conducting a large-scale project where populations of native apex predators – the dingo and the Tasmanian devil – are al...
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Dog and cat registrations are due for annual renewal by Monday 9 April in the Mount Alexander Shire. A renewal notice will be sent to each home where ...
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A Government-commissioned study into the climate impacts of coal seam gas remains secret, after the Labor, Liberal and National parties today voted do...
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