Posts in the 'Food miles' category

CERES Sustainable Home Workshops: Sept – Nov 2010

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CERES, Melbourne’s award-winning Community Environment Park in Brunswick is running a new series of Sustainable Home Workshops Saturday afternoons 1.30pm-3.30pm. They will focus on reducing our environmental impact at home, for example:

  • Insulation and Glazing
  • Green Cleaning
  • Buying Green
  • Living your Choices
  • Sustainable Design and

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Safe Food, Food Labelling, And A Name And Shame Register

After 4 million hits to its ‘Name and Shame register’ the NSW Government says the public certainly does want safe food information.

The NSW Minister for Primary Industries, Steve Whan, says

“Name and Shame provides that information.. in

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A HUGE Green & Community Directory – Blue’s Green Mate

Paul has contacted PWF to introduce a brand new, very comprehensive, green and community resource. The Blue’s Green Mate website is a forum, directory and news outlet – with news feeds from Alternative Energy News, The UK

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Two Year Old Fruit Juice is ‘Fresh’?

There’s a called new website ‘Truth In Labelling’ established by Senator Nick Xenophon and the Citrus Reform Association.

The website has been donated by concerned growers from the Citrus Reform Association and web design company, Muscle Online.

The Rationale

“The

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Food Labelling Inaction: ‘TOO DIFFICULT’ For Major Retailers

The Weekly Times is reporting a situation where Chinese mushrooms with potential health risks have been sold in Australia labelled ‘Packed in Melbourne’.

It seems Labor and the Libs are doing nothing about tougher country-of-origin labelling as major …

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