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“This is the third La Niňa year in a row and there has been a boom in breeding, despite relatively few waterbirds across the area. On top of this we are seeing an increase coming through from previous years’ breeding.”
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Daily news…Doing business with Myanmar or selling spying equipment to countries who will use it to monitor journalists are two of the latest reasons companies might get excluded from ESG investment funds. The December edition of IP&E Magazine, a globally-recognised pension fund publication, reports that the manager of Norway’s huge […]
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The Federal Government is essentially giving people a fish when they need to be teaching them how to fish
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Congratulations to the organisers of Woytopia 2022 for turning on the sunshine and creating such an amazing community event dedicated to sustainability. The crowds were amazing, the food delicious, the market stalls eclectic and the whole day was totally enjoyable. Who was it that said Woy Woy was the world’s […]
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The NSW Government has responded to the crisis by creating the Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation.
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Up to 60 per cent of the biomass from logging is burnt back into the atmosphere, or left behind to become a fire hazard
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By Jo Muller In my first article I showed that using the comparison rate is a much better method for comparing an investment in solar PV system than just using the payback period. (The ‘PV’ in solar PV stands for photovoltaic which means making electricity from light.) The comparison rate […]
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By Jo Muller As mentioned in part 1 of this article, the estimation of the third value (the savings on electricity) is a bit complicated to determine. It comprises the estimated savings in shoulder and peak period and the income from the feed-in tariff for feeding solar electricity back into […]
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By Jackie Pearson and Harry Mulholland ‘Love trees, Love COSS’ was an event that brought together a variety of community and environmental groups at the Ourimbah Campus of the University of Newcastle recently. Groups who exhibited included everyone from the Lisarow-Ourimbah CWA through to The Central Coast Greens and the […]
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Over half of Australia’s threatened species and ecosystems occur within the urban fringe which is why a project created by Macquarie University encourages Australians, no matter where they live, to add food, water, and shelter elements to their outdoor space to act as wildlife stop overs. By Tracey Hawkins* The […]
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