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DIY Composting »
Compost is a version of humus found in soil. The Australian gardener’s best friend, this is a mixture of recycled organic and household waste that you can use as a natural fertilizer to renew your soil’s composition and yield bountiful plant growth and harvests. Making compost for your garden is not as difficult as it [...]
Tips for Growing and Managing your Home Garden »
While cultivating soil can be a tedious and messy job it gives you the opportunity to transform your yard into a prolific home garden. Aside from the nutritional benefits you get from eating fresh and naturally grown fruits and vegetables from your [...]
Tuna crisis »
TUNA is becoming scarce in the world and a meeting which has been sheltered and put on the back burner because of the climate change summit will now determine our tuna’s future. The Western Central Pacific is the last remaining healthy fishery in the world and the source of over half the world’s tuna. Yellowfin [...]
Our wasteful world »
FOOD waste has become a massive issue around the world, particularly after Christmas. Australia’s festivities are that great over the festive period that they tend to go on holidays and leave food in fridges which then gets out dated and thrown in the bin. It generates a lot of waste for the country and it [...]
Organic food a solution to global warming? »
GOVERNMENTS are working ferociously to find a cure for the global warming. Maybe they should be looking to organic food? Organic food is the best way to curb global warming, heart disease, diabetes and cancer according to a report in the UK’s Daily Mail. The Mail suggests that the traditional Sunday lunch could become a [...]
Floods turn in Christmas treat »
NEW South Wales north coast’s disastrous year of floods had a positive that will be very handy for Christmas. Just imagine your plate full of prawns this Christmas. Commercial fishermen are harvesting huge hauls of school prawns, which due to their size are easily being confused for King prawns. “In my 20 years in seafood, these catches are [...]
Nature thicker than money »
ORGANIC food is still selling well world wide despite the recession. In Australia, supermarkets are still selling good portions of organic foods despite their more expensive nature compared to their comparative foods. Even those things such as organic shampoos and cosmetics are still being consistently bought. And internationally it seems, supermarket sales of environmentally sustainable or [...]
Sweden set to have environment on menu »
SWEDEN’S shoppers are set to be the first to know what carbon dioxide emissions are associated with the food that they are buying with products to list this and restaurants are also following suit. The New York Times reports changing diet can be as effective in reducing emissions of climate-changing gases as doing away with the clothes dryer, scientific [...]
Breakthrough in food safety »
THERMO Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, this week announced a new online information resource for environmental and food safety professionals. Thermo Fisher is a comprehensive provider of solutions for environment and food safety. Thermo Fisher is making the easy-to-use resource centers available to the world’s scientific community to share its extensive knowledge and [...]
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.