November 30, 2007

Drinking Bottled Water Responsible For Huge Emissions

Green Pages Australia says Australians are spending over $300 million on bottled water a year. The Bottled Water Alliance, headed by Planet Ark co-founder John Dee, estimates that over 456,131 barrels of oil are used every year to manufacture bottled […]
November 29, 2007

Maleny Residents, Caloundra Council And Democracy!

The Sunshine Coast’s Maleny residents are being asked to stand up and demand democracy on Wednesday 5 December. Why? Caloundra Council has ignored 1463 forms rejecting an 18 hole golf course on the Obi Obi Parklands – Maleny Community Precinct, […]
November 29, 2007

Business Founders Wanted For Entrepreneurship Research

A Small Business Development Officer – and firm believer in understanding what works, and what doesn’t, when starting and developing new businesses in Australia – has passed on info about the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence research project (CAUSEE) […]
November 27, 2007

Word Of The Year: Locavore

The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced locavore as the 2007 Word of the Year. At PWF we continue to see interest in Melbourne’s new 100 Mile Cafe – The Community Cares…So The Hospitality Industry Responds. It seems that around […]
November 26, 2007

Turning Food Waste Into Healthy Ingredients?

A new project has been launched by Australian food researchers to develop cost-effective ways to extract compounds from grape skins, olive leaves, cartilage and cow hides – agricultural and food industry waste – for use in health-enhancing food and nutraceuticals. […]
November 25, 2007

It IS Said That Without Vision People Perish

Against a backdrop of big promises in this election two things stand out to me, politicians working with grassroots people and valuing this connection the Coalition’s lack of vision. Malcolm Turnbull, candidate for Wentworth, going against the trend on election […]
November 21, 2007

New Democracy…NO Parties…Exit Gutless Pollies??

‘Let’s put the people back into politics’ says The New Democracy Foundation, an organisation that believes political reform starts with the people. They have won a $300K federal government grant to look at ‘Creating And Analysing A Citizens’ Parliament: Exploring […]
November 21, 2007

GetUp Quiz On ‘How Should I Vote?’

GetUp describes itself as a politically motivated movement attempting to enlist like-minded people who want to bring participation back into democracy. You’ve no doubt heard of them… If you’re not on their mailing list and haven’t worked out who to […]
November 21, 2007

Greening Our Transport Thinking…

Though Malcolm Turnbull in an ABC interview for AM claims “Australia is leading the world on climate change…hitting our Kyoto target…leading the world to reduced deforestation, the second largest source of emissions,” WA’s Clean Life Directory tells us – via […]
November 20, 2007

Health Inequalities – How Do Citizens make A Difference?

Question: How do citizens make a difference to tackling health inequalities in communities and how can we learn from those experiences? The Victorian Health Inequalities Network (VHIN) is running a Citizens’ Roundtable on this topic in Carlton, on December 5, […]
November 19, 2007

Green Map, Neighbourhood House, Bendigo Bank…

Four months ago a Green Map for the Green Wedge Warrandyte region in Melbourne’s outer northeast was a germ of an idea. In two days’ time, in conjunction with Bendigo Bank’s launch of its Warrandyte Community Portal the Warrandyte Neighbourhood […]
November 18, 2007

Don’t Bury The Sydney-Bourke Aboriginal Highway Concept!

Marc ‘Aussie’ Stone has a lot of experience around the world in economic and tourism development in rural areas. A year ago PWF wrote about Marc’s Replicable Aboriginal ‘business success’ model, an Aboriginal Experiences Highway for outback NSW, which made […]