Arts and Solar

Putting Art to Work: First Solar Powered Glass Art Installation Lights Up Library : TreeHugger
Highlights the arts and functionality case to go beyond just the passive sustainable creation ethics but to make it s function sustainable and practically useful as well.Interesting question raised here though.Should art be functionally sustainable or is it free to be created with any ethic in mind and in any way regardless of whether it has use values?

Green Gadget challenge - PC Authority

Green Gadget challenge - PC Authority
This is a good article in that it shows both the limitations and advantages of using sustainable green power for all our office and mobile electronic technologies.It shows that design and practicality limits need to be considered with average and affordable costs.

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Freeplay Foundation Brings Light to Rwanda : TreeHugger

Freeplay Foundation Brings Light to Rwanda : TreeHugger
The off shot for the whole freeplay,wind up revolution area.Quietly and almost surreptiously these types of technologies have bee changing the lives of many n third world countries let alone their western world consumerist counterparts.Ingenuity..you cant beat it!.ciao

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the Reach of Creative Commons and The Jamendo music sharing site...Cultural Impacts in India

Jamendo Blog » Blog Archive » Making India go industrial
sharing the music this artist likes and inspires him in a country where industrial music is only strting to be known.Good article from the blog showing some of the role of the Jamendo community sites and how they are being used.Good stuff.Cross Cultural exchange and creativity,community.

Women condemn Rudds non action-Australian Women Online

Environmental community unites to condemn Rudd’s low greenhouse target | Australian Women Online
The contradictions are pointed out forcefully by over 60 green groups across Australia.

Green Jobs from GreenPages....add this to your list of resiources on sustainable jobs hunting

Green Jobs | Green Pages Australia - Eco Friendly Products, Environmentally Friendly Services, Eco Business, Green Business


Not a bad magazine resource either!Ciao

Arts and funding

Arts funding and support are a complex matter in many ways...especially when one looks at the basic drive for many artists in that they just want or need to make art.Art and creativity some times become used interchangeably and so can also confuse our argument.In summary this is what I think.

Creativity and perhaps artmaking in the broadest sense is a right and indeed I believe an essential to become psychologially fully human persons.The development, expression of such can be limited and or sociallised out of us to greater and lesser degrees (at our own risk as individuals,families and societies) ....without a long theses it could be said that it is an essential and integral part of being human to be creators or co creators in the world we live in.Professional artists go one step further in that they have chosen to make more explicit and heighten there potentiality and try to make a more fulltime, less compromised occupation of this.Most artists fund themselves by many jobseeking ventures including their own work,free service and types of exchanges,sponsorships etc.They do this to make ends meet and feed their addiction.Their product is a contribution to both the social,community and societal culture which we all contribute towards in as beneficial way as we can.Additional funding comes in many forms such as art markets,"one per cents' for the arts in architectural projects of over $1million and speculation/auctioning of art works,creative commons rights that can earn money as well as copyrights.Artists also are a very large and broad church so to speak from the writer,website designer,sculptor/installations creator,digital artists,musicians etc.They contribute broadly to the Australian infrastructure of culture and real dollar and lifestyle terms as much as BHP Billiton(BHP Billiton which sponsors many arts projects themselves through various organisations that are both Government and private eg.ABAF http://www.abaf.org.au/,CANWA etc).Funding the arts through government and other partnerhips is no different to the existing stakeholder partnerships that exist bewtween welfare,church welfare,government instrumentalities, councils,independent community groups and other NGOs,corporations and philanthropic organisations including for profits such as big record labels or small record labels such as Jarrah records http://www.jarrahrecords.com/ etc.Many co contributed funding sources and work both voluntary and paid.We benefit from this type of system of culture development in many and diverse ways that doesnt always see direct compensation to the artist or creator.As a value and since we contribute to the running of this great country of ours through our goverment instrumentalies...I would like to see the system support the values of the artist broadly and with many partners...and in essence promoted in the same way we promote the defence forces as a key value...essential to the socio cultural and psychological health of our society.To see artists as spongeing is to call other big corporations ' spongers ' too...I wont name them all.such as Telstra etc.

I am happy for my dollars that are taxed to support the arts in all its forms both by way of commercial and various other initiatives.No man is an island...nor do any of us fund ourselves completely with no help from others.

Michaelangelo was both corporate funded,self funded,patron and church funded employee who worked on many types of employee contracts...sure he had some good employers and bad (the popes at times were a bit cranky...but the Medicis weren't too bad...sort of like the Transfields http://www.transfield.com.au/arts/walshbay_sculptures.htm  and Holmes A Courts of their days http://www.visualarts.net.au/grantsprizes/vcags
).Anyway enough said what do you think?Ciao and regards Warren xx ;) :)Much more can be said of course....!

Reduce Emissions say Poznan International Business participants in Financil review.

Global business leaders call for tougher emissions targets - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

It is interesting that the main Australian contingent speaking out are banks such as NAB and accounting/audit sectors-Price Waterhouse and Coopers, transport specialists such as Linfox and Lendlease(construction) and what is reported some of the major mining companies are missing.

Creative Chaos

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The brilliance of creative chaos
This seems to ring true to me somehow.Clive James has definitely captured something of the contradictions in ones life when trying to organise oneself I think.

CHOICE consumer advocates green advice for sustainability and Greening your lifestyle

CHOICE - CHOICE Green

blasting contractor Cleaned up in Karratha

Blasting company told to clean up Karratha waste - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Your Rights At Work -Tell Your mates!

Rights On Site

Mycodiesel?!

‘Mycodiesel’ From Patagonian Tree Fungus Could Be Used Directly in Diesel Engines : TreeHugger
Well after doing all this work in the BP refinery it is refreshing to believe and see that the natural way of producing diesel may be near to hand....what an amazing discovery!

CSIRO And Sustainability

Sustainability

A CSIRO Australia resource page on sustainability issues .

sustainable industrial estates

Green-shoe brigade - The National Interest - 10 October 2008
Bruce Michell Gold Coast property developer with a vision has sold up his own residential estate to fund an industrial estate that is sustainable and to the largest extent carbon neutral...an interesting and inspiring vision

Garnaut report and Roos

Roo industry supports Garnaut push for farming - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Garnaut issues climate change wake-u.m4v

End of the internet as we know it?

A brief summary of some of the actions to turn the internet into priveledged private user network...a closed network...accessible only to those selected whether it be because of financial or other priveledges such as preferred customer/client websites and or content.An extreme form of censorship is linked to such argument and control.It is linked into the whole free press and network ownership and neautrality argument
...whats next?

Sustainbility and Akzo

Akzo Nobel: 18% Of Revenue From Sustainable Products · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives

It is good to see that some of the larger corporates and ones that have influence on the transport,corrosion and oil industry are attempting to send a cleaner and more sustainable/greener message.Hopefully it is alll not just profile driven but a real committment.

Making Links Conference FYI

Making Links

This conference claims to link social justice/action with technology coverage which aims to be more inclusive of disadvantaged communities.It will focus on more socially equitable uses of mobile and internet technologies.At this stage they are looking for speaker proposals.There are a broad range of organiser groups from across Australia literally.See this link http://www.makinglinks.org.au/about.shtml

Interesting cultural exchange site FYI

Information and Cultural Exchange

Garnaut report recommendations on Climate Change policy and Investors

Rudd and Garnaut report

Video - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Garnaut Climate Change Report

Video - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Warm up,smarten up ,don't spend up.

ACF - Beat the winter blues by keeping warm
A short reminder on energy efficiency,house insulation and spending and using your energy dollars wisely.

Video - Water powered car unveiled - WA Today

Video - Water powered car unveiled - WA Today

Green labelling...issue or non issue...that is 'the' question?

Green Product Labeling: Is It Valid and Does It Matter? : TreeHugger

Bits and Pieces

Intels Chief on Strategy, Globalization and the Price of Oil - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Intel Atom Processor with Intel board - D945GCLF

B Society not class B

B-Society | An Alternative to the nine-to-five society
Very good site illustrating the philosophy of the B society and its vision to change the world from a mechanical,inflexible world view and lifestyle in workplace and in general expectancy of work /life balance regimes.Live on the late risers.Also refer to ABC Australia interview 2007 with Camilla Kring
Founder and chairperson B-Society.


1. Life Matters 6 September 2007 - B-Society

Summary: Do you hate your alarm clock, struggle to get up in the morning and be at the office by 9? Are you much happier if you can take it easy in the morning and roll into work at, say, 10 or 11? If so, chances are you're a
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Australian manufactured Hybrid cars?

Have we suddenly caught up with the rest of the world with this announcement...does it signify an acknowledgement that we must look at our global/Australian car emissions or is it something else that is happening ....It sounds at least partially helpful and hopeful.Is it more than just business and politics?

Hybrid grant a '$35m Rudd photo op' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

B Society not class B

B-Society | An Alternative to the nine-to-five society
Very good site illustrating the philosophy of the B society and its vision to change the world from a mechanical,inflexible world view and lifestyle in workplace and in general expectancy of work /life balance regimes.Live on the late risers.Also refer to ABC Australia interview 2007 with Camilla Kring
Founder and chairperson B-Society.


1. Life Matters 6 September 2007 - B-Society

Summary: Do you hate your alarm clock, struggle to get up in the morning and be at the office by 9? Are you much happier if you can take it easy in the morning and roll into work at, say, 10 or 11? If so, chances are you're a
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The John Butler Trio Forum / Solar LCD Powered iPods, iPhones and Laptops?

The John Butler Trio Forum / Solar LCD Powered iPods, iPhones and Laptops?

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Diesel Trees in Australia?

The Diesel Tree: Grow Your Own Oil : TreeHugger

Fill up your machine for free with a diesel tree

The complicated world of 'greenwshing' and conflicts of interest and skullduggery

'Environmentalists' Who Oppose Cape Wind Farm Apparently Linked to Fossil Fuel Industry : TreeHugger

Senator Kennedy Stops Global Warming Solutions!

Desert Revegetation Ideas and experiences in Mexico

2008 Goldman Prize Winner Jesus Leon Santos on Bringing Desert Lands Back to Life : TreeHugger

Green travel?

Interesting Green travel site...more USA Focussed though.
Green Travel Myth # 2 - Green Hotels are Uncomfortable

Have we overlooked that like art climate change could evolve in a non linear way?!

Are We Moving into Another Era of 'Abrupt' Climate Change? : TreeHugger

Its a scary, but nonetheless none too surprising expression of opinion that we could be experiencing global warming and climate change right now with impacts that are uneven and evolve both subtle ,dynamic...but also quite dramatically.Modelling apparently shows us that it could not be random non humanly affected events...or so is said ...regardless any scare that motivates and informs us further is good in my opinion in moving us in positive directions and along a more sustainable, though scarier and less certain path.

Rainforest Portal FYI

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Toilet Hydro electrics?

Leviathan Powers Your Home With Every Flush : TreeHugger
Interesting ideas from Israel.

BRA - Hydroelectric Power from Grey Water

Sustainable gardening?

Sustainable Gardening Australia : TreeHugger

Good to see this are being looked at closer...What about its tie in to permaculture and appropriate technology?

Cuban tribute to Australian permaculturists

Dryland Permaculture Strategies - Part 1

Green Architecture...little Boxes?

Architects' Home and Office is Less Than Eight Feet Wide : TreeHugger
I love this idea... enjoy.

London EcoBuild 2008: Energy Efficient Housing

Container House 2006

Green Car Practices?

How To Green Your Car : TreeHugger
Though containing a lot of US content the gist of the tips is there.Some good links as well.

Awesome solar cars!

Eco Browser?

Flock Browser: Eco-Edition | Green Content Delivered Daily

Just trying this browser out...not too sure about using the eco label...itdoes provide or at least has green content pre loaded...but one could think as I am yet to discover that the software somehow is produced or producing some sustainable out come?Is it?Is it enough to promote green content or should there be something more in praxis?and production?Some drawbacks for me is that it does not use the foxmarks idea of archiving remotely all bookmarks for a user to share remotely from any computer as yet...an inefficiency perhaps...How do you truely create a sustainable browser?

Getting Started with the Flock Browser

Sustainable coffee cups....?

Make That Coffee Cup Porcelain, Not Paper : TreeHugger

porcelain version of standard cup photo

Sometimes the ovious astounds me...but are'nt we all culprits to the quick and easy solution of the paper disposable coffee cup...even hough it is a potentially toxic and unhealthy material by and large to contain a well brewed coffee in.How does that sit with all that effort to buy free trade and organic...?Something can be done

Socialism and Sustainability

Is sustainability making headway in a real sense as a concept or part of a misguided approach attempting to create a meaning and clear praxis out of an unclear and poilitically obtuse concept.Does the concept of sustainability and practice as a system of development need re thinking and precision?

Cracks in the core of sustainability

Green Building in South Africa...The Australian Connection

SA accelerates green-building techniques amidst national electricity crisis

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Victorian aquifers run dry.

Never-ending stream threatens to run dry - National - theage.com.au

Never-ending stream threatens to run dry

Carmel Egan
April 13, 2008
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WATER from Victoria's once seemingly limitless underground reservoirs is being sucked up by thirsty towns, farms and irrigators faster than it can be replaced.

Just weeks after the State Government signed the $10 billion federal agreement to save the Murray River, groundwater has emerged as the new frontier in the water wars.

Farmers, irrigators and some hydrogeologists accuse the Government of having had an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude to groundwater, treating it as the poor cousin of rivers and reservoirs.

Years of neglect and mismanagement, they say, have resulted in too many pumping licences being granted on depleted aquifers while others have been slapped with pumping bans for scant scientific reasons.

At the same time, some of the state's aquifers are reaching perilously low levels as more drought-stricken producers and irrigators hunt for alternative water sources.

Despite repeated requests, the State Government and Department of Sustainability and Environment last week failed to respond to The Sunday Age's questions about the health and monitoring of Victoria's underground water reserves.

Yet most critics acknowledge that although the Government came late to groundwater issues, its water saving strategies are moving in the right direction.

Regional water authorities are now rolling out water management plans that include compulsory metering of all new bore licences, metering of all rights over 20 megalitres and protection of aquifers identified as at risk.

However, implementation of the new plans has caused headaches for Southern Rural Water, which is responsible for all groundwater licences from Gippsland to Warrnambool.

SRW has found itself before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal at least 17 times in 20 months.

In legal action almost unheard of five years ago, the authority has been challenged for refusing to grant licences, for granting too many licences and for giving individual irrigators too much access to already depleted reserves.

The authority has itself recommended prosecutions for breaches of the Water Act, including 24 market gardeners this financial year for illegal pumping from the Werribee aquifer.

By contrast, Goulburn Murray Water, which licenses bores across the state's northern districts, has had only one tribunal matter over the same period.

Meanwhile, Victoria's bores are being driven deeper in desperate and costly measures to reach fast-retreating aquifers.

Consumers Ready To Kiss Convenience Packaging Goodbye · Environmental Leader · Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

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This is a surprising bit of research in that it indicates that most or at least half of consumers are not concerned about having convenience packaging and in NZ they are topping the table with a more eco conscious approach with most NZlanders willing to give up all aspects of packaging for the environment.

Perhaps not considered is the re useability and ability to turn some types of packaging into other storage and or recycling benefits to some industry who rely on such materials waste.Biodegradeable packaging is perhaps not highlighted as well.Still it highlights through research the attitudes of some consumers willing to change

Comments on New Directions...Sustainability Practitioners Assoc.

Just a few links and comments on the new directions being set by SPA.The discussion takes place in the SPA public forum.
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It seems as though SPA or what may end up being formerly called SPA is losing focus and relevance ...or appears to be with little real presence and profile in the wider community and in the area of advocacy at the moment.Why is this ?not enough active participation by a broader section of its membership...publicising in the right places.Having a concept and project of both cultural and global change practice in organisations and community etc.Its not that these practitioners and projects are not being carried out by membership...its that they are not published ,promoted and supported and or captured in some way that plugs SPA into such action and that SPA as an entity is seen as facilitating and servicing in some way this 'approach with and on behalf of such workers/project leaders etc.Where is our cutting edge interaction and clearly lead focus....What about our interface and advocacy for our membership/workers in sustainability??....whats happening in this area?Too much of a ghetto/elitist mentality ...not for the masses and in additon it needs to firmly step into the real marketplace of commerce and non government sustainability activity(as wellas its government and some community focus)Publishable and publicity?Both is lacking...what searching out and finding out what is happening in both the academic and operational sustainability field is going on...we must encourage the sharing of both story and case study whilst also promoting a more globally focussed project with local links and example....

PS remember this organisation...Implications and relationship with?...do we have one with?.. http://sustainabilityprofessionals.org/

PSS other examples of organisations and approaches that I admire with well thought out strategy...including a sophisticated web strategy where other styles of membership and knowledge sharing,interaction and action are created...
Here are a couple of my favourites...of which some I am a member of and some not...but monitor via newsletter or 2,3.etc...

http://www.ifap.asn.au/
http://www.panda.org/
http://aoir.org/
http://www.fibreculture.org/
http://www.canwa.com.au/
http://www.wilderness.org.au/
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
http://www.acfonline.org.au/Default.asp?c=23122
http://www.oxfam.org/en/tools/index.htm
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
http://www.commonground.org.uk/
http://www.culture.gov.au/

blogs and magazines;
http://www.treehugger.com/
http://www.grist.org/
http://www.environmentalleader.com/
http://www.soros.org/about
http://www.culture.gov.au/
http://www.greenpagesaustralia.com.au/

Each of these allows for various levels of engagement and interest....maybe there is something to be learnt here..i.e branding as well as in focus in project and networks,services etc...?

What does anyone think?
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I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I looks as if the shake up the Committee is talking about will cover anything/everything any member throws out there.

I think you raise some very valid points that will surely be address by the Committee and membership as a whole.

Thanks for the links, they're proving to be rather handy!
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No probs .Meant to be constructive crit. ...glad links are useful.Ciao again !

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This gives a very well rounded and easily accessible understanding and explanation of what sustainability is in cleaner production terms and commercial terms.

it is interesting that the link is made with waste and how even general housekeeping activities can contribute to a less wasteful production process as wellas a safer one.

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This blog sets out to prove that living sustainably and living well are not mutually exclusive. You'll find quick tips for going green, info on green businesses and hopefully a little bit of inspiration.
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Sir Edmund Hillary -Life to be celebrated.

featured: Edmund Hillary, Hero




Edmund Hillary, Second Only to Dalai Lama as a Hero
by Warren McLaren, Sydney on 01.21.08
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Sir Edmund Hillary will have a New Zealand state funeral tomorrow. But he will be remembered not only for standing atop Mt Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, but also for his humanitarian efforts over the past fifty or so years.

In 1960 he created The Himalayan Trust to give back to the Sherpa people, who had helped him attain global recognition. The principles of the Himalayan Trust reflect the man, who TV NZ called ‘humble, hard-working and honest.’ The principles are that the Trust provide basic infrastructure needs that the Sherpas really want (education, health, forests, monastery repairs and response to natural disasters).

The principles also state that the Sherpas themselves to eagerly contribute time and effort to the projects- this "self help" confirming the importance and relevance of the work. The Trust to rely on voluntary workers and virtually eliminate overhead and that the donations to be transferred direct to the projects in Nepal; no money paid to middlemen or agents.

Apparently such donations have exceeded £500,000 ($ 980,000 USD), which may not seem like a lot of money, but for a poor mountain country and its people it has been made go a long way. Two hospitals, 13 health clinics, 30 schools built. 1 million trees planted. Monasteries built or rebuilt. National Parks created. Annual grants for 100 students to attend higher education. Literacy and educational programs for women. Teacher training and park ranger training. And the list goes on.

Is it any wonder that in a recent poll of Nepalese children Sir Edmund rated second behind the Dalai Lama as a hero. As one old Sherpa put it, “Because of him, we have access to schools and medicine. Without him, how could we have this? He climbed Everest, yes, but to us he did much more."

Imagine a world where the legacy of our passing was as rich as that of Sir Ed. As the captain of The Enterprise was heard to say, “Make it so.”

Robot Gliders Monitor Gulf Stream Health

UK Deploying Armada of Robot Submarines and Sensors to Monitor Gulf Stream
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 01.21.08
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It's not often that you hear scientists cite the latest Hollywood fare as inspiration for their work. Yet Meric Srokosz of the Southampton Oceanographic Centre, explaining the purpose of the $31 million Rapid Watch system he is heading up, does just that, citing the plotline of "The Day After Tomorrow" - specifically the collapse of the Gulf Stream - as a potential occurrence that warrants further investigation. The Observer's Robin McKie lays out the relevant details:

"An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic, from Florida to the Canary Islands, to provide early warning that the Gulf Stream might be failing, an event that would trigger cataclysmic freezing in Britain for decades."

Now while Srokosz doesn't actually believe that the Gulf Stream could collapse within the period of a few days - as suggested in the film - he doesn't put it beyond the pale that it could happen in "about 10 years." As McKie goes on to write, Rapid Watch will rely on underwater monitoring techniques to "check whether cold water pouring south from melting Arctic ice sheets is diverting the current's warm waters away from Britain."

The results of an initial study Srokosz and his colleagues carried out in 2004 suggested that the Gulf Stream "fluctuates in a highly unpredictable fashion." As such, he believes past measurements may not provide an ideal predictive indicator for what could happen in the near future; beginning later this year, Rapid Watch will monitor the Gulf Stream until 2014 with an armada of ocean-floor sensors - which will assess current flow, temperature and other variables - and robot gliders - which will monitor the current itself. This system shares many of the same features as the Hudson River environmental monitoring network we previously reported on.

The consequences of a freeze in the Gulf Stream could be drastic, as McKie outlines: "Without the Gulf Stream, the UK would be as cold as Canada in winter. Ports could freeze over and snowstorms and blizzards would paralyse the country."

Via ::Guardian Unlimited: Ocean floor sensors will warn of failing Gulf Stream (news website)

See also: ::Hudson River Environmental Monitoring Goes High-Tech, ::Gulf Stream's Tidal Energy Could Provide Up to a Third of Florida's Power


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Greenpages - Australian Sustainability Magazine

The Australian equivalent in some ways to the USA based Treehugger...though it does focus on a broad range of magazine based approaches and not just purely on Green consumerism.Its less blog of course and has learnt a lot from magazines like New Internationalist and the likes of Treehugger and Gristmill online but with a unique Aussie Focus.A lot of focus is on the web based stuff and one wonders why or what would give incentive to buy their offline quarterly...though one could be tempted of course.With so much service and content available at their site it tends to create a disincentive to get the magazine...Anyway reasonable hub with a Aussie focus.

New book on Sustainable Cities launched by Professor Peter Newman

This book By Professor Peter Newman was launched in Hollywood USA on the 18th of January 2008.It was titled "Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems"

Sustainability, I  must remind my self is a matter of being able to sustain a lifestyle in a dynamic balance that is always looking for the positive, healthy and creative option.It is about acting and taking time to think and appraise and reflect before acting so as to enable the best and not always the most efficient in terms of time, but maybe in terms of  impact can result.

It is not a concept to be 'technoligised' or be kidnapped by intellectuals and or scientists,business leaders or governement to justify projects...It is a concept that is available and needs promotion as a way of lifestyle choice and living that can be obtained and thought about in terms of thorough and just principle making for all people.

Recycle old PCS

Relevant to both sustainability and safety and health concerns is our continuuing hoarding and sub optimum use of recycleable and useable materials...PCs in this case.
http://onsitesafe.blogspot.com/2008/01/nation-of-hoarders-30-million-pcs-rot.html#links

The cited article is an important and scary reminder of how much resources we hoard and waste when pc materials are so recyclable and if not handled properly unsafe as well as polluting to our encvironment(let alone the waste of usability for people who need access to serviceable pc equipment).



some relevant links;
http://www.employment.greenpc.com.au/
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Australia-to-dump-e-waste-on-developing-nations-/0,130061702,339282651,00.htm