The High Country Urban Biodiversity Project (HiCUB) in the NSW New England area was completed in June 2012. Find out more about the successes of HiCUB in the documentary video and final report and photos.
BioFresh is an EU-funded international project that aims to build a global information platform for scientists and ecosystem managers with access to all available databases describing the distribution, status and trends of global freshwater biodiversity. BioFresh is continually integrating metadatabases …
Pannell Discussions are brief pieces on issues and ideas in economics, science, the environment, natural resource management, politics, agriculture and whatever else. In 2012, Pannell Discussions received the Quality of Research Communication Award from the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics …
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A framework to help Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups build resilience in rural and regional communities has been developed by a team from The University of Queensland (UQ). Professor Helen Ross, from UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, says …
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The Economist Intelligence Unit has prepared four Green City Indexes to help cities learn from each other in order to better address the common environmental challenges they face: US and Canada Green City Index Asian Green City Index Latin American …
Biodiversity Month is held in September each year and aims to promote the importance of protecting, conserving and improving biodiversity both within Australia and across the world.
Visit a Sustainable House in your neighbourhood this Sunday. Sustainable House Day gives people the chance to get a real-life look inside houses that have been designed, built or fitted out with sustainability in mind and talk to owners, receiving …
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date, in 1987, on which the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was signed. States are invited …
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The fifth World Parks Day will take place on Monday 17 September 2012. World Parks Day is an opportunity to celebrate our parks and green spaces. Any organization or individual can host a park event on World Parks Day.
Every 22 September, people from around the world get together in the streets, intersections, and neighbourhood blocks on Carfree Day to remind the world that we don’t have to accept our car-dominated society.