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
www.abc.net.au > rn > lifematters > stories > 2007 > 2024123.htm
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http://snipurl.com/2epf4 with

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

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

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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

<cite>Consumers Ready To Kiss Convenience Packaging Goodbye · Environmental Leader · Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News</cite>: "

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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.
mprove SPA: Global,act local,focus and promote
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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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