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A bimonthly scholarly journal that publishes research and issues of sustainability in the environment, industry and community. Focused on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Articles from No. 139, October-November
10 Years and 800 000 Volunteers Down the Track ... as the Natural Heritage Trust Celebrates Its 10th Birthday and Moves to Its Third Phase, Sophie Clayton Examines Its Evolution, Achievements and Lessons Learned along the Way-Including the Important Legacy of Community Capacity Building
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It's been credited with improving more than 2 million hectares of native bushland, mobilising 800 000 volunteers, and directing government funds into more than 27 000 regional and local natural resource management projects around the country. In fact,...
ANZANG 2007 Winners Captured in Print
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Short-listed and winning entries from the 2007 ANZANG (Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea) Nature photography competition--the most prestigious of its kind in the Australasian region--have been brought together...
Beyond the Price Tag: The Costs and Benefits of Going Green: Today It's Not Enough for Manufacturers to Make the Cheapest or Best-Quality on the Market If the Product, or Its Production, Use and Disposal Leave a Big Environmental Footprint. Product Stewardship Requires Key Stakeholders to Share Responsibility for Product Impacts-An Idea That's Slowly Catching on in Australia
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Anthony Halas, the Australian owner of the Seafolly brand of swimwear, caught a plane to visit his clothing factory in China last year, he experienced something of an epiphany. His awakening came in-flight after watching...
DIY Billabongs to Protect Farm Biodiversity
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thanks to an innovative community organisation known as the Birchip Cropping Group, farmers in Victoria's north-west Wimmera Mallee region are being encouraged to establish low-cost wildlife ponds on their farms, to help maintain...
Energy Superpower-Or Sustainable Energy Leader? Australia Has the Potential to Become an Energy Leader in the Carbon-Constrained Future-But First We Need to Make Sure We Are Heading in the Right Direction
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Australian Prime Minister John Howard last year coined the phrase 'energy superpower' when he identified the further development and export of energy resources as an ambition to which Australia should aspire. In his address...
Engine Retrofit Kit Helps Filipinos Breathe Easier
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Retrofitting the engines of smoke-belching Philippine motorcycle taxis to reduce pollution could cut their fuel use more than 30 per cent and emissions by 90 per cent according to non-profit US company Envirofit. The two-stroke engines in 1.3 million...
From Little Things, Big Things Grow: Jane Goodall's Visionary Program for Empowering Young People to Get Involved in Making Their Community and Their Environment a Better Place for All Has Taken Root in Australia
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In the bigger scheme of things, Sandy the bearded dragon at first looks very small. But to the students at Marree Aboriginal School, Sandy is their link to a global movement aimed at young people, called Roots & Shoots. The Roots & Shoots...
Grey Water Recycling without Buckets
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A Canberra company has developed a domestic grey water recycling unit that can recycle 660 litres of water a day, reducing the amount of water purchased by a typical household by 50-60 per cent. Perpetual Water has supplied 130 units for domestic...
Heart of Gold: Waiting around for Someone Else to Do Something about the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases Is Not in the Agenda for This Highly Motivated Community Group in Central Victoria
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the 1850s, a stampede of 25 000 gold-diggers rushed to Castlemaine in central Victoria when word got around that it was in the middle of the richest shallow alluvial goldfield the world had ever seen. You could say that...
Investment Opportunity for Bush Tomato Entrepreneurs
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The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) is calling for private investors to partner with remote Aboriginal communities in an innovative business development. CRC Managing Director Jan Ferguson cites Titjikala, a remote community that...
Keeping Birds off the Radar
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They've been blasted with noise, even shot at, but birds--common and endangered--seem to gravitate to airports, creating a flight hazard. New Zealand authorities are looking at two low-impact solutions to the bird-strike problem....
Local Weather Station for 'Slip Slop Slap' Alert
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This spring and summer, a flag at Caulfield Junior College, in Melbourne, Victoria, will be raised every time the UV index is high. Students from the college are monitoring UV levels at their school as part of the 'UV and me' project, which uses...
Making Sure Your Home Is Not an Energy Sink 2: The Second Part of a Series in Which Electrical Engineer Peter Seligman Reveals the Hidden Patterns of Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions around the Home. in This Issue, Domestic Hot Water Goes under the Microscope
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the first part, I mentioned how some appliances use a considerable amount of energy when not in use. For example, my son recently installed a 5-star split-system air-conditioner. It draws 10 watts on standby. If we do...
Micro Power Makes Sense
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'Mega' solutions are not necessarily the best approach to large-scale environmental problems. In fact, as our story on page 4 demonstrates, the solution to one of South-East Asia's, and the world's, biggest vehicle pollution problems--the millions...
No Time to Lose
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his latest book, On Borrowed Time, leading Australian ecologist Professor David Lindenmayer writes that biodiversity loss is 'the most significant environmental problem facing Australia'. In fact, he continues, we are 'in...
Race to Protect WA's Last Tuarts from Extinction
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Western Australia is the only place in the world where native tuart trees (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) grow, but an unknown cause is killing them. Researchers warn that, within a single generation, the core population of WA's...
The Many Dimensions of Sustainable Development: These Days, Everyone Seems to Be Talking about Sustainability. but Are We All on the Same Wavelength When We Use the Term? Steve Hatfield Dodds-Senior CSIRO Researcher and President of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics-Begins a Series Examining the Meaning Behind This Often-Invoked Word
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Sustainable development is one of the most important ideas, and goals, of our time. It is defined as 'development which meets the needs and aspirations of the current generation without impairing the ability of future generations to meet theirs'. ...
The Solar Generation Sets Sail
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over recent months, teams of school students throughout the eastern states have been designing and building their entries to compete in the second International Solar Boat Challenge, reports Robin Taylor. In 2006, around...
