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There is a new project to set up rehoming centres for research animals in Australia. Go to the web page and read the downloadable white paper on the new Liberty movement to find out more.
Australia’s leading sustainability stories announced
The finalists in the Banksia Sustainability Awards have been announced. This year Banksia is recognising 57 finalists across 14 different categories for their innovation, problem solving, leadership and extraordinary sustainability achievements. The Banksia Sustainability Awards, now in their 27th year, reaffirms that Australian enterprise is providing a plethora of innovative approaches and practices in how […]
Collaboration key to creating better neighbourhoods
HotHouse lived up to its name on 12 August at Sydney’s Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (formerly the Powerhouse Museum) – as a means of cultivating and fast-tracking ideas – by bringing together a diverse group of people to consider the idea of sustainable neighbourhoods. Following on from the first of the new format […]
In acknowledgement of our citizen scientists
If you think your personal efforts to appreciate and understand your local environment can’t have a positive impact, then think again. The Office of Australia’s Chief Scientist recently issued a statement saying that science in this country is benefitting from “people power” with a growing number of citizen scientists helping expand scientific knowledge and discovery. […]
Countering myths about coal
“For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity,” Prime Minster Tony Abbott said late last year. “Coal is the foundation of the way we live because you can’t have a modern lifestyle without energy, you can’t have a modern economy without energy”. He went on to say that if we are serious about […]
The debate we nearly had on pricing nature
We should price nature to protect it. That was the topic up for debate at the IQ2 event that attracted several hundred people in Sydney on July 21. ‘Price’ and ‘nature’ were the moving targets in this debate hosted by The Ethics Centre (formerly known as St James Ethics Centre). It seemed to be successful […]