Christmas! It’s a moment in our busy lives when we take time out to enjoy the company of our friends and families and celebrate the spirit of care. These days, we mark this moment with gifts. We offer gifts as symbols of thoughtfulness and thankfulness, of sharing good fortune with those we [...]

Once it all was buried in a big hole. Then we got smarter and began to “reduce, reuse and recycle”. We’re still throwing away mountains of waste, but on the Sunshine Coast some pieces are being given a second life – “retrieve and repurchase” have been added to the mantra.

Leonie Shanahan, permaculture educator at Palmwoods State School, gives Eco an insight into the program that won them the recent Sustainable Schools Award.

It’s that time of year again when we go into panic mode, thinking of what Christmas gifts to buy family or friends.

Without a doubt, the most glaring example of wasteful consumption is personal transport based on the motor vehicle.
Think of what is needed to build a vehicle with all its components, to keep it fuelled and running, to provide the infrastructure, highways, parking lots, to repair the damage it causes, to dispose of its rusting remains. [...]

Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

by Barbara Kingsolver

In this section we explore the stories behind the people. In ECO 8 we look at Klaus Langner…