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Let’s stop coke from trashing a recycling scheme that works!
Right now, soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is trying to block a world class recycling scheme in NSW – a scheme that already works in other places, like South Australia. Every year over 7 billion cans and bottles get littered across the country, choking waterways and wildlife. Coke want to keep it that way, and they’re…
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Behind the spin, Adani and Coal are in trouble
You have to hand it to Adani Australia chief executive Jeyakumar Janakaraj. Despite years-long delays on Adani’s Queensland Carmichael coal mine – a project mired in court challenges and no realistic prospect of obtaining the financing it needs to proceed – Mr Janakaraj retains a cheerful disposition. Image via Flickr: Max Phillips Last week he…
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Love is in the air… and on the water. We say #LetThemStay
This Valentine’s Day I’m standing up for love. I work with Greenpeace and by the time you’re reading this, I’ll be driving a boat in Sydney Harbour, showing my support for the #LetThemStay movement. There is a group of 267 people seeking refuge in Australia and our government is trying to send them to detention…
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America’s Largest National Forest — And Its Wolves — Need Your Help by February 22
How you can help protect the Tongass National Forest.
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John West announce FAD free tuna
Have you seen the news? John West, Australia’s biggest tuna brand with over 40% of the market, has announced their complete transition to FAD-free tuna sourced from the Pacific (FADs are fish aggregating devices - which act like fish magnets, drawing in tuna and other marine life making them easier to find and scoop up in…
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5 reasons why Thursday was awesome
If you work in an office every day (like me) it’s pretty easy to get lost in the day to day challenges, and deadlines, and office politics, and making plans for future projects, and sneakily thinking about what you’re going to do on the weekend… You know. The usual. Then you get days like Thursday.…
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Great news for outdoor lovers: high performance without PFCs is possible
Blog entry by Chiara Campione – senior campaigner at Greenpeace Italy “Going PFC-free in one of the world’s most extreme and challenging natural environments is possible. I can do it”. This was the idea David Bacci – an Italian professional climber – submitted to us when we asked the outdoor community for ideas to make the…
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The Good News
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s be honest, reading mainstream media at the moment will give you plenty of bad news, so let’s talk about the good stuff. I left the business world to join the non-profit sector because I believe people can change the world for the…
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The Bad News
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing a lot of bad news recently, so let’s start there. Here’s a random sampling of some of the big bad stories of 2016 so far (well, actually, the last week). NASA, NOAA, the UK Met…
