Living Simply
By Stacey Rich, PhD candidate at La Trobe University One loaf of bread changed the direction of my life. That’s not the whole truth. It was a loaf of bread and a jar of jam. The bread and the jam were both made by me, with yeast caught from the air in our kitchen, and berries my …
Albury Wodonga Sustainable Living Festival 2016
By Amber Rodd, Energy & Sustainability Officer, AlburyCity This year’s Albury Wodonga Sustainable Living Festival is better than ever with a new, improved and extended format. Our month-long program covers all of November and includes more than fifty events, from workshops, talks and films through to markets, exhibits and tours. Green thumbs will love our …
Deepwater Horizon: Beyond the Hollywood Movie
By Chris Halburd, B Lab Europe Advisory Board Member and Solicitor at Skinner & Associates The advertising for the new film “Deepwater Horizon” got me thinking, not of the event itself but rather of the ideology which is so deeply connected with it. For that I need to go back to 2012 when I was …
A Menu in the Making
By Megan Hunt, Health Promotion Coordinator at Gateway Health The Wodonga Healthy Catering Guide is here and ready for you and your workplace to use. The guide is a real menu in the making in taking initiative to encourage healthy eating behaviours in the workplace and in our community. The guide, developed by Healthy Together …
Mums group encourages sustainability
By Cath Newell, Consultant to Sustainability Victoria Top winner of the Premier’s Sustainability Awards in 2015, a group of caring parents known as St Kilda Mums, Geelong Mums and Eureka (Ballarat) Mums, is now encouraging other sustainability groups to enter the 2016 Premier’s Sustainability Awards to celebrate their work. The group was acknowledged last year …
A different way to do business
By Chris Halburd, B Lab Europe Advisory Board Member and Solicitor at Skinner & Associates In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and with a maturing understanding of the interaction between humanity and the planet there has been a growing acknowledgment that business as usual is no longer a realistic long-term option. This has resulted in …
Getting Around Cities
By Sue Brunskill, Teacher, National Environment Centre, and member of Wooragee Landcare I have just had a weekend in Melbourne and my friend and I hired a bike- $45 each for two days hire including helmet and bike chain. We left from the city and rode out to Williamstown on great bike paths along the …
Rethink your reuse and recycling
By Zara Barlow, age 14, Albury As a society we throw away way too many things. Australians produce over eighteen million tonnes of waste every year. On average each Australian discards 330 kilograms of paper, 552 aluminium cans, 118 kilograms of plastic, 74 kilograms metals, 414 kilograms food and 206 glass bottles and jars. So much …
Paper Towel or Electric Hand Dryer – Which is Better?
By Alison Mitchell, Friends of Willow Park and Wodonga Urban Landcare Network
Maybe I’m alone in asking that question, but it does raise a bigger question – how do I know which is the best alternative of any product if I want to live more lightly?
One tool to help us answer this question …
Waste Not, Want Not
By Alison Mitchell, Friends of Willow Park and Wodonga Urban Landcare Network
As a child, my mother would say this regularly. This may not be surprising as she was born in 1930 and so was a toddler during the Great Depression years and endured the shortages associated with the Second World War. That her …
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