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By Jaylene Musgrave Australia's world heritage listed Fraser Island is renowned for its beautiful dingoes but the country's purest strain of dingo is now on the verge of extinction under the Queensland Government's current management plan. Some of the Australia's leading experts are speaking out on the sad plight facing the island's … [Read more...]
By Sharon Green The South East Queensland Regional Plan has predicted that the population of the region will grow from 2.8 million in 2006 to 4.4 million by 2031. The Queensland Department of Infrastructure and Planning claims that this rapid growth will create the need for an additional 754,000 new homes. As the state government … [Read more...]
Cob builders use their hands and feet to form lumps of earth mixed with clay, straw and sand. It is a sensory and aesthetic experience similar to sculpting with clay. Cob is very easy to learn and inexpensive to build. Because there are no forms, ramming, cement or rectilinear bricks, cob lends itself to organic shapes: curved walls, arches and … [Read more...]
Latest content on Eco online Eco Issue 15 - Population growth Eco Issue 16 - Biodiversity (with more content to come over the coming weeks) Website changes We have made a few modifications to the site which will hopefully make navigation a lot easier. Please feel free to take a look around and make any suggestions. IMPORTANT NEWS: … [Read more...]
The mainstream media excites their readers and listeners with many things. Fall under their spell and you would almost be forgiven for thinking that the biggest threat from climate change, if you still believe the scientific facts as opposed to columnists’ opinions, will be upon the size of your wallet. Professor Roger Kitching reminds us of … [Read more...]
With Ian Christesen A recent opinion poll commissioned by WWF of 4000 residents showed that 79 per cent of respondents believe Australia should either begin reducing carbon pollution before other countries, or start reducing regardless of when other countries choose to act. Rudd has duped the electors by refusing to take action on … [Read more...]
If it weren't for the scientific data, meticulously documented case studies, analysis of legislative and political machinations and the honest, personal narrative, one would prefer this book to be a work of fiction. Sadly, it is not. This stuff of nightmares is real – and getting worse. Unless we urgently do something about it. Dr Markus has … [Read more...]
By Narelle McCarthy Act now, act quickly and even act radically or else we will see the collapse of the planet’s natural systems that support our economies, lives and livelihoods. That’ s the urgent warning from top level environmental scientists and some governments who provided material for a sobering report recently produced … [Read more...]
By Simon Baltais Southeast Queensland is one of Australia’s biological hotspots. It is an area where the sub-tropical and temperate regions known as the McPherson/MacLeay Overlap Zone are a region of diverse landscapes from mountain rainforest to open woodland and wallum wetlands to huge sand islands, mangroves forest, seagrass meadows and … [Read more...]
By Professor Tor Hundloe From an economic perspective the population debate is all about scale -- economies of scale and the opposite, diseconomies of scale are, the key concepts. From the day ex-Treasurer, Peter Costello, made the extraordinary plea “to have one for the country”, we have politicians on both sides, business leaders … [Read more...]
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