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Macken sense: Fortunes, fairy tales and what real dollars could do
Having watched more Budget night speeches than is probably healthy for any woman, I have to say there is always a touch of la lunar about the whole thing. It’s like everyone on the government’s side agrees to take stupid tablets while the Opposition gets tanked on laughing gas, both sides face off and either…
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“Homeless” Sumatran tigers call to action to save their forest homes
Commuters in this morning’s notorious Jakarta rush-hour did double-takes as hundreds of homeless Sumatran tigers descended on Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry to urge the Government to take action to stop companies like Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) from destroying their forest homes. Blogpost by Zul Fahmni, Greenpeace Forest campaigner – April 19, 2012 Greenpeace activists…
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Macken sense: Position position position
It’s not only real-estate agents who get why position is so important, just ask those poor guys in the mining industry how important – and tricky – it is to get their position right, especially in these final days before the federal Budget. Making the right call on how to position themselves could mean the…
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Macken sense: I got it totally wrong…
Let me be the first one to admit that I got it wrong – seriously wrong. In last week’s post I said that I was willing to bet my house on this prediction, “… over the next six months the State and Federal governments are going to be working hand-in-glove to eradicate as much environmental…
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Congratulations to Bob Brown
Today’s resignation of Bob Brown as the leader of the Australian Greens is a historic moment for the environmental movement in Australia. From the Franklin Dam campaign in the early 80’s Dr Brown has been a prominent face of the grassroots environmental movement and then the Greens political party. He will be remembered by future…
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Macken sense: I’m not psychic but…
The mining industry has a problem – farmland, the environment and the pesky Great Barrier Reef just keeps getting in the way of their vast new coal mines and mining infrastructure. Not for much longer. Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson, told a National Energy Conference in Brisbane this week what the source of…
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If opening our pockets would mean emptying them…
With more than 7,000 islands the Philippines has a coastline longer than the United States. We are surrounded by water, in fact more than 2 million square kilometers. Original blogpost by Mark Dia, Greenpeace Phillipines A majority the Philippine population eat fish, with 80% of animal protein intake coming from the ocean. One would think that as…
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Xerox: Honesty is the best policy when you are caught trading with APP
It is three weeks since we launched ‘The Ramin Paper Trail’ exposing that the logyards at APP’s main pulp mill in Indonesia are riddled with illegal ramin logs. We also released evidence showing that 11 companies, including Xerox, had rainforest fibre from APP in their products Blogpost by Andy Tait, Senior Campaign Advisor Although Indonesia’s…
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Working to keep pirates and overfishing out of my backyard
Tuna is the lifeline for many Pacific island communities – a source of income, jobs and food. That’s why, as a Pacific islander and someone who has been working on oceans conservation for over a decade, I am still very angry at the inaction of the people who are meant to be “managing” our oceans.…
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Will brooms and shovels clean up the Arctic?
New Zealand and Finland are practically on opposite sides of the planet, and quite a long way away from Alaska. Yet, they are the two starting points for Shell’s fleet of rented and commissioned ships that are preparing to get together and start drilling for oil in the Arctic this summer. They’re not getting away…