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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...]
It’s hard to resist the beach at Noosa, but for an adventure off the beaten track you must travel west a little way into the hinterland. Exploring here has become a lot easier with the establishment of the Noosa Trail Network. It offers 106 kilometres of trail through a smorgasbord of landscapes – rolling hills and mountain peaks, bushland … [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...]
Take a walk in August from Maroochydoore to Caloundra? Along the beach at low tide? While we no longer call it ‘tramping’, read between the lines here and it is still a fair distance to hike. When Vance and Nettie Palmer walked this southward route about ninety years ago, they encountered all kinds of creatures and plants we might not see … [Read more...]
Sustainability innovators: Agents of change on the Sunshine Coast Author: Dana C Thomsen Documenting the stories of ten people from the Sunshine Coast, who according to their peers and colleagues have dedicated considerable time towards sustainability, Dr Dana Thomsen, Lecturer in Sustainability Advocacy at the University of the Sunshine Coast … [Read more...]
The Clean Industrial Revolution Growing Australian prosperity in a greenhouse age Author: Ben McNeil The race is on to find ways to reduce our impact on the environment. Ben McNeil shows us how we can make the most of our natural advantages and how Australia businesses can benefit economically when adapting to the new environmental … [Read more...]
When you stage an event that regularly attracts more than 100,000 people over six days, it makes sense to encourage patrons to travel lightly and leave their cars at home. This helps to cut back on those worrying carbon emissions, reduces congestion and makes the festival experience more pleasant for everyone. With this in mind, the Woodford … [Read more...]
Selected by Dr Deborah Jordan and taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. This piece, Caloundra: reasons for being there was first published in the Brisbane Telegraph, 28 January 1928. Nettie Palmer was born and bred in Melbourne and alive to the differences between the Sunshine and the south. She, too, was city reared so … [Read more...]
Paul and Sally Johnson have both had a long experience with nature through their personal and professional lives. Along with their two daughters, Elly and Jessie, they have been quietly and modestly working towards a sustainable existence. In this edition we take an Up Close look at their lifestyle and why they decided to home-school their … [Read more...]
By- Tony Kevin When I began a year ago to write my book Crunch Time, the Rudd government had just whittled Garnaut’s recommended 25 per cent Australian emissions cut by 2020 down to a meaningless 5 per cent cut. Through 2009, the emissions trading scheme (ETS) negotiations built in increasingly lavish subsidies to big coal energy … [Read more...]
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