DAVID POLLARD, PASTORALIST and author of The Wooleen Way has joined a growing number of regenerative farmers including the Monaro’s Charles Massy (Call of the Reed Warbler) showing the way toward a different compact with the nature of Australia. They say it is high time if farming and grazing in this
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Environmental issues in the Capital region and surrounds.
Timetable set down for waste export ban
AUSTRALIA’S ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS have agreed to ban the export of all glass and plastic waste from July 2021. After meeting in Adelaide last week the Commonwealth, state and Territory ministers signed up to a timetable for phasing out all waste exports starting from next July. Under the agreement, glass will be banned
An open letter to the Prime Minister from 248 concerned scientists
Dear Prime Minister WE THE UNDERSIGNED are scientists who every day study, catalogue and document Australia's unique native species and ecosystems and work out the evidence base needed to save them. Through our work we know intimately just how important the diversity of Australia's natural world is to the fabric of
Why Naomi Klein thinks now is the moment for climate action
Turning discarded plastic into useful products
A new federally-funded plastic microfactory has opened at the University of NSW, offering an effective way to deal with waste and a good way to educate the community about recycling. THE COMMERCIAL-SCALE model developed by the UNSW Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) can turn discarded plastic into 3D
Navigation relies on memory, improves brain — indigenous societies did it so well
“NAVIGATION DEVICES MAKE vast reserves of distributed knowledge available to us in an instant. But, crucially, they never require us to possess information in our own memory in the way that successful navigators have been required to do till now.” M.R. O’Connor’s new book Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans
A superb exploration and a tragic tale: what is happening as humans change the planet
The Sixth Extinction, An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Bloomsbury 2014. Reviewed by Pauline Richards The Sixth Extinction is a remarkable achievement, a finely written and enthralling read. Elizabeth Kolbert traces a single, current extinction event in the context of the history of life on Earth. Her research was exhaustive, involving the examination
Community power for NSW — the little company that could
A SMALL COMMUNITY-owned energy retailer has big plans to expand its community-based energy operations throughout regional and metropolitan NSW and to other states. From its home base in Byron Bay, Enova Community Energy Ltd is currently rolling out its services in Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong and to the whole of NSW
THIS WEEK: David Attenborough tells it like it is
You are the keepers of an extraordinary section of the surface of this planet, including the Barrier Reef, and what you say, what you do, really, really matters. Sir David Attenborough, internationally beloved naturalist and filmmaker, told ABC Triple J that the young people urging much stronger action on climate change for
Win-win ideas for Australia to lower its emissions, transport tops
A shot of hope in the face of climate despair HOPE, LIKE A slinky, springs eternal. While rage, fear and disgust are all appropriate responses to the realities of climate change (which we have explored extensively this week), we must move from despair to action. CAPTION: Sunrise at Beachmere, Queensland. Mark Wasser/Flickr. Fortunately,