Solutions for the future
Dec 1st, 2007 | By Leonie Shanahan | Category: SchoolsLeonie Shanahan, permaculture educator at Palmwoods State School, gives Eco an insight into the program that won them the recent Sustainable Schools Award.
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…