Energy Efficiency

Peter Cundall may be short in stature, but as the former host Gardener of the ABC’s Gardening Australia, he can spot rot, diseased and non-productive branches on most organisms.
The 82-year-old gardening celebrity – arrested during a protest against Gunns’ pulp mill outside State Parliament last year – pleaded not guilty to the charge of refusing [...]

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Professor Sharon Beder (a visiting professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong writes an article that underscores the myth of  ‘growth economy’.
In a different tangent to my ‘value added’ products (where a company with an association with another company markets their products through another organisation to boost profit margins; i.e cardboard tubing manufacturer sells their [...]

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This week the New York Times reported a disheartening story about two of the largest retail chains.
You see, instead of taking unsold items to sample sales or donating them to people in need, H&M and Wal-Mart have been throwing them out in giant trash bags.
And in the case that someone may stumble on these bags [...]

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