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Rebel with a cause

One young lady determined to stand up to climate change is Rebel Lyons (pictured). Rebel is already planning her wholehearted participation in the Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival at the University of the Sunshine Coast on Sunday June 28, 2009.
Between the Festival hours of 9am and 4pm, Rebel will perform two environmentally related songs [...]

Solutions for the future

Why edible school gardens? Currently we ingest about 4.5 litres of pesticides and herbicides, eat 66 kilograms of sugar each year and consume exotic foods’ grown without soil, which focuses on profit, not nutrition.
Obesity is now more widespread than hunger and popular soft drinks now rate as the number one items in our shopping trolleys.
In [...]