AUSTRALIANS are prepared to go green this Christmas with a range of festive greeting cards. Green associations are recommending Australians to go Green this summer with environmentally-friendly Christmas trees and other products for the festive period. Planet Ark’s Brad Gray told the ABC: “Buying a fake tree is perfectly good, as long as you’re going to buy [...]
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A green Christmas
WHILE Christmas time is a celebration, it also is a chance to showcase your true green spirit and talk about methods such as reuse, reduce and recycle. You should firstly look out for gorgeous Australian eco friendly Christmas cards by Earth Greetings – unique festive flora and fauna designs, carbon neutral, made from recycled paper, [...]
Endangered species on the up
AUSTRALIA’S endangered species list has risen significantly in recent years. With growing fire concerns – following last year’s Black Saturday bushfires – it is expected more and more species could be struck again. While the death toll of humans in those bushfires were well documented, the toll of species weren’t known but only predicted in [...]
Climate change continues
CLIMATE change continues to be in full swing with most Australian capital cities posting their hottest November on record. Melbourne has had a strange month of weather that has produced above-average rainfall but still record temperatures. The city’s average maximum temperature was 27.6 degrees to Saturday, besting the 1862 record of 25.5 degrees for the whole of [...]
Clean Up Australia celebrates 20 years
CLEAN Up Australia Day has been an annual event in the country for almost two decades. It has now segregated into three days where there is the main Clean Up Australia Day. There is also a Clean Up your Business Day and a Clean Up your School Day. Clean Up Australia’s 2010 campaign is now [...]
‘Penguin Island’
PHILLIP Island Natural Park is pretty much known as ‘penguin island’ to most Victorians. It is where approximately 650 penguins beach on the island and the amount of seals have risen significantly also. About 6000 pups are born there every November-December at Seal Rocks, 2km west of Phillip Island. Part of the Rangers jobs is [...]
Fear for sporting grounds
MELBOURNE’S water problems have eased in recent weeks but water restrictions are still set to be enforced strongly again for another summer. Sporting grounds around Victoria have still had trouble getting up again for another cricket season thanks to the parched brown surfaces. Some are looking at introducing synthetic turf to at least have some [...]
More dry times ahead for farmers
AUSTRALIAN farmers face a bleak future after being warned they will be stripped of water for environmental needs. Laurie Arthur, who sits on the National Water Commission and chairs the National Farmers Federation water taskforce, laid down a harsh assessment yesterday at a conference on regional water policy of what the country’s growers could expect. In a [...]
Supermarkets destroying the rainforest
The Guardian newspaper has reported on British supermarkets driving the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation.
Water your garden efficiently
Water is a limited resource and all Victorians know that it’s in short supply, but at the same time we all love our gardens. You don’t have to choose one over the other, here are some tips on how to water your garden efficiently.