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Earth Hour 2010
February 26th, 2010
Earth Hour is here again! At 8:30pm Saturday 27 March in cities and towns all over the world will go dark for an hour. Millions of Australians took part in previous Earth Hours – it is a great way to show that you care about the planet.
Plan hatched by good eggs
February 25th, 2010
THREE Melbourne students are hoping to raise a million dollars for local charities using the age-old technique of trading.
Growing pains
March 12th, 2010
A bush ballad comes to mind as you round the bend towards Susie Zent's rural retreat. Surrounded by plantation forests in a remote pocket of Gippsland's Strzelecki Ranges, she's literally got a home among the gum trees.
Wisest town named
March 12th, 2010
Sunbury has come in as Victoria's most water-wise town. New statewide water statistics for 2009 show Sunbury/Macedon residents used 145 litres of water, per person, per day - well under Melbourne's personal water target of 155 litres.
80,000 AUSTRALIANS SAY DON’T PALM US OFF!
March 12th, 2010
Australians have collectively flexed their people power muscle to demand clear labelling of palm oil in all food products on our supermarket shelves.
More than 80 per cent of the world’s palm oil comes from South East Asia, much of which is produced at the cost of the last remaining habitat of the Orang-utan and Sumatran Tiger.
“It’s not mandatory to label palm oil. More often than not it is simply hidden under the label of vegetable oil,” says Zoos Victoria’s General Manager of Community Conservation, Rachel Lowry, “so most of us have no idea if our food is fuelling the extinction of incredible creatures like the Orang-utan.”Alive and kicking: the 100kg miracle they'll never forget
March 11th, 2010
Sydney's ''miracle'' Asian elephant calf, born alive two days after he was declared dead in the womb, is the first elephant known to have survived such a protracted and difficult labour as his mother, Porntip, underwent.
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