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Over 300 Reef locals, Traditional Owners deliver pledges to Adani’s doorstep to stop dangerous coal proposal
A diverse group of over 300 community members, including Reef Coast locals and Traditional Owners from the Abbot Point area have delivered mining giant Adani messages from over 2,000 Australians, who have pledged to take peaceful civil disobedience to halt Adani’s Galilee coal projects and Abbot Point port expansion on the Great Barrier Reef. Adani’s…
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How much water does it take to feed you?
How much water does it take to feed you? Depends on what you eat. The water in your diet goes beyond your eight glasses a day. If you’re Australian, you’re probably already a bit of a water conservation whiz. There was a time when watering your lawn in the middle of the day was a major social…
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How loggers are destroying the Amazon — and getting away with it
The Amazon rainforest is the largest on earth. Its biodiversity is unparalleled, it is crucial to the stability of the global climate, and it is home to many indigenous peoples. |Trucks loaded with timber await the repair of a ferry used to cross the Curuá-Una river, close to Santarém, Pará State.|Greenpeace Brazil activists place banners…
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Dumpster diving 101: Frank eats out of bins
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO), roughly one third of food is wasted globally. When you take into account the energy, land, water, effort, transport, fuel and packaging that make up the modern food industry – it’s clear our wasteful practices have a massive toll on the earth. Dumpster…
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Seriously, Tony?! 5 ways the Abbott government’s war on renewables is an attack on Australians
The Abbott government’s latest move isn’t just an attack on renewable energy – it’s an attack on Australians around the country. Image found on Imgur Over the last few days, newspapers, environmental organisations and people around the world were sharing some great news – Denmark’s wind farms had met over 100% of the country’s…
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Can’t flush this: 5 things you need to stop flushing down your toilet right now
When you flush things down the toilet – they don’t just disappear. Here are 5 things we need to stop flushing down the toilet right now for our oceans. In Australia, what we send down our kitchen, laundry, and bathroom drains – and everything we flush down the toilet – ends up in the sewerage…
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30 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing environment voices are still needed
By David Ritter – Posted in ABC Environment 10 July 2015 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the bombing of protest vessel, the Rainbow Warrior. As much as ever, small voices need to join a chorus to show our leaders what is right. IF A POLITICIAN were to suggest testing nuclear weapons in the…
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Shark attack: Here’s how many sharks humans kill every hour
How big is the gap between how many people are killed by sharks each year, and how many sharks we kill? The comparison will amaze you. Greenpeace volunteers take part in a street theater action against shark finning at the Old Town, Jakarta. The campaign is held to promote healthy tourism in Indonesia, tourism that…
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Stop handouts for the mining industry! Call the QLD Premier today
A scandal has unfolded in Queensland. Thanks to Right to Information laws, dodgy deals between the former LNP government and the fossil fuel industry have been exposed. It turns out that the Carmichael project proposed right beside our Reef – strongly backed by our governments – was deemed ‘unbankable’ by the highest officials of…
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Overcoming fear of heights to stop new coal mining province
I’m scared of heights – tall buildings, cliff tops and lifts. Glass lifts really get my blood pumping. Even the thought of it makes me nervous. But I’m fine with aeroplanes and helicopters, which kind of sounds a bit contradictory. Posted in WA Today – July 6th 2015 Perth based geologist Ric Davies was out to…