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See Hippies on TV! (onya Ben)
Tasmania’s Southern ForestsStill Wild Still Threatened Protecting Tasmania’s Forests – A Real Climate Change Solution Help Tassie’s forests feature on national prime time television in the lead up to the federal election. OUR ADS MESSAGEDeforestation contributes more to global greenhouse gas emissions annually than the transport sector.Ending native forest logging in Tasmania is equivalent to…
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Our online store is currently offline
Viridescens: Our online store is currently offline Our online store is currently down while we work through our end of financial year accounting and prepare for our impending work in Perth and Bali. We wish to send a huge thanks to all our clients and customers over the past year and look forward to working…
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I’ve harped on about Google a fair bit over the years – but i do like some of the stuff google.org is doing on climate change
It’s All About Reversing Global Warming The climate crisis requires a radical reduction of greenhouse gases to minimize the impact on human health and the environment. Greenhouse gas emissions from energy use are responsible for over two-thirds of global emissions, therefore curbing this threat will require a major transformation in how we make and use…
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A clean energy update from Google
Posted by Dan Reicher, Director, Climate and Energy Initiatives, Google.org Today Google.org is launching an exciting project that offers a glimpse of a smarter energy future: cars that plug into an electric grid powered by solar energy. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (“plug-in hybrids”) can achieve 70 -100 miles per gallon, quadrupling the fuel economy of…
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Irrepressible Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.Amnesty International, with the…
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Stick your GM crops up your arse, Australia.
Just when you start to think that some of our leaders are making some sense in some areas… GM food in Victorian shops soon – National – theage.com.au: “VICTORIA is set to lift its ban on planting genetically modified food crops as early as February next year, paving the way for a rush of new…
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papa ad
since helping to give birth to our baby maya nearly three moons ago, adrian has become stronger, calmer and more loving than ever before. to watch him with his daughter is to watch a happy man. he glows with her; fatherhood suits him. (and his silly-song repertoire grows daily!) i love ad more than ever,…
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Greened My Apple
Fine work from Greenpeace on their ‘Green My Apple’ campaign. Steve Jobs issued this today: Apple has been criticized by some environmental organizations for not being a leader in removing toxic chemicals from its new products, and for not aggressively or properly recycling its old products. Upon investigating Apple’s current practices and progress towards these…
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10 weeks old and Maya’s hit 6kg
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A blast from the past
three cheers for Mr Dan Cassey, superstar vocalist/guitarist, for calling out of the blue and reminding me that i used to know all sorts of people, some of which i even went to school with. damn those of you whose names i remember who have 730000 others circulating the globe with the same names and/or…