The Age27 October 2008 Melbourne’s Yarra River has unkindly been described as an “upside-down” river for its muddy, brown colour, but it seems the river is also a nasty chemical cocktail. Fish in the Yarra have arsenic levels up to …
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The Australian26 October 2008 PREDICTIONS that cities would die are proving to be, like reports of Mark Twain’s death, grossly exaggerated. Big cities are getting bigger. More than half of the people on the planet now live in cities, a …
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The West Australian27 October 2008 More than 80 per cent of Perth’s most prominent native birds face extinction if land clearing continues at current rates, according to alarming new research that puts the spotlight on the State’s planning practices… Read …
BIODIVERSITY: “Perth’s native birds face extinction as bush is ripped out for housing” Read more »
The WetlandCare National Art Competition 2009 is still open for submissions, with entries closing on Friday, December 5. The competition is offering a fantastic range of prizes, including the $1250 Sydney Metropolitan CMA Open Art prize, and the NSW Department …
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This new CSIRO report investigates the skills, innovation and workforce dimensions of the transition to a more environmentally sustainable society, with a particular focus on the challenges involved in achieving deep cuts in greenhouse emissions.
ABC News24 October 2008 Leaders of 40 of the world’s major cities pledged action to fight climate change, taking measures ranging from promoting solar energy to tracking genetically modified food. Warning that crowded urban areas were especially susceptible to the …
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The Courier Mail21 October 2008 A KOALA habitat is set to be bulldozed to make way for a multimillion-dollar housing estate despite Government promises to protect the species. The controversial Collingwood Park development in Ipswich has been given the green …
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Sydney Morning Herald15 October 2008 Years ago it was decided to tame the Cooks River’s unruly banks with concrete, but now the reverse is happening, writes Jennie Curtin. Poor old Cooks River – such a sadly chequered history: polluted, degraded …
Sydney Morning Herald12 October 2008 AUSTRALIAN cities must join a global network in which urban farmers grow produce on rooftops, a leading science commentator says. Professor Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine, said the global food crisis was a …
FOOD SUSTAINABILITY: “Future farms over our heads” Read more »
Media releaseHon Peter Garrett MP, Australian Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the ArtsHon Tony Burke MP, Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry20 October 2008 PROJECTS TO PROTECT SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WETLANDS AND WINE DISTRICT South Australia’s fragile wetlands and …
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