Zero Waste Australia

The Garnaut Review

The Garnaut Climate Change Review
was commissioned by Australia's State and Territory Governments on 30
April 2007. The recently elected Prime Minister of Australia has
confirmed the participation of the Commonwealth Government in the
Review.

NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Dublin, Ireland, 01/07/2008 - Householders
can now calculate their exact carbon footprint through the first Irish publicly
accessible online carbon calculator for households.

Following the Climate Change seminar and business dinner held on the 6th of September 2007, attendees from the Wagga Region expressed strong support in proactively participating in this new Carbon Economy of the future. We take this opportunity to express publicly our firm commitment to the Wagga Wagga community and region.
For more:
http://www.waggaguide.com.au/?id=waggawaggamovestowar

The Air Car - A Breath Of Fresh Air Or A Waste Of Breath ?

The primary impact of peak oil will be felt on our transportation systems. As road transportation is the primary consumer of oil, this is where we will need to make the most changes in order to adapt to less available oil.
for more see;
http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2007/12/air-car-breath-of-fresh-air-or-wa...

As the international community faces up to the looming climate change, public interest groups from over 30 countries across the globe are pushing for “Zero Waste for Zero Warming” as an urgent solution to cut back and combat greenhouse gas emissions from dirty waste disposal technologies.

http://ecowastecoalition.blogspot.com/2007/11/citizens-groups-join-globa...

Dr. Janis Birkeland - Visiting Fellow in Sustainable Systems, Ecological Design ,Contruction and Urban Planning - ANU; recently took the opportuntiy to connect with a number of Zero Waste International Alliance members in her capacity on the ZWA board.:

Manila - Spoke with Sonia Mendoza -working to remove rubbish dumped on the neighbourhood street scape and create income from composting to support a local youth centre and public mini-viary;

Paris - spoke with consultants working to make zero waste a mainstream initiative;

The Grameen Foundation of Australia, represented by Mr. Shan Ali heard about Mother Earth Foundation (MEF) and their eco waste manatement project in the "A world Without Waste" radio series produced by the ABC and BBC and aired December 05 and January 06.

The Grameen Foundation invited MEF on Feb. 28, 2006 to be a partner in the Northern Samar Coalition against Poverty and to intervene in waste management.