Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
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The Hon Peter Garrett MP, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Gave the opening address for the Zero Waste Summit held in Sydney on the 30th November and 1st December it provided a timely focus on the future prospects for the waste industry in a Climate Change world.
Donating your old bike to Revolve could mean a life-changing experience for a family in Zimbabwe, according to Zero Waste Australia Executive Officer, Kim Russell.
"We are partnering with Revolve to transport bikes donated by the Canberra regional community to families in Zimbabwe: said Mr Russell. "Many people in Zimbabwe who still have work, have a hard time paying to get to work with the rising costs of transport. Some of them are walking up to 20 miles a day to get to their job because they can no longer afford the inflationary cost of bus fare".
Deserts could soon be irrigated with date stones under a process developed by
a Saudi royal studying at Queen’s University Belfast.
Prince Abdulrahman Bandar Al-Saud has found a novel use for the millions of
date stones that are thrown away in his country each year, devising a method
of using the carbon-rich seeds to purify waste water and industrial effluent.
The nephew of King Abdullah worked on the system as part of his PhD study at
Queen’s school of chemistry and chemical engineering.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Business development centers in Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada and New York are receiving a total of $500,000 from the U.S. Small Business Administration to help fund energy efficiency projects.
The grants, announced yesterday, were awarded under the SBA's Small Business Sustainability Initiative and are to fund programs that range from education, information and training to purchasing and installation of energy efficient building fixtures and equipment.
Despite agriculture not being included in the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and the low targets that have been set, the Federal Government must still take steps to ensure our food production is not compromised, according to the National Farmers' Federation.
The Federal Government today set a target of a 5-15pc cut in emissions by 2020, with the levels to depend on global agreements.
But NFF president David Crombie says the CPRS will still cause significant pain to businesses.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Chevron Corp. and other liquefied natural gas producers in Australia won concessions that may reduce the cost to their businesses of Australia's planned carbon trading system.