Discussions surrounding appropriate community progress measures have been going on in Australia, and world-wide, for decades. Discussion is good, but Charles Berger from the Australian Conservation Foundation, is frustrated that little has been done to translate that talk into action.
Fictional Wall Street character, Gordon Gekko, famously said that "Greed is good", and for a while the business world seemed to agree. Connie Comber believes the time has now come for a more gentle business environment that is a better fit with our post-GFC sensibilities.
CISCO General Manager Government Affairs & Policy, Tim Fawcett, makes the case for Australia to follow the United States' lead and create a National Telework Week. In the US more than 35,000 businesses and organisations pledge to allow employees to work from home for a week, saving them money and the atmosphere from 1600 tons of pollutants.
The term global warming is used to describe the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans. But as Dr David Evans argues in his speech at the "No election" rally at Langley Park in Perth on Sunday 18 Sept, it has wrongly become synonymous as an indication of man-made climate change.
Despite popular thought, there is a more down-to-earth side of the Sydney Fashion Weekend, it's a new trend which has been labelled 'eco-fashion' presenting the sustainable side of fashion.
Most of us would agree that the recent devastating events in Australia and New Zealand have caused us to realise just how powerless we are against the environment we live in.
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