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Wanted. More bees.
Honeybee The decline in bee populations the world over has worried me for some time and I’m not alone. Bees are vital pollinators, but the use of pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMOs)...
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Maude Barlow connecting water campaigners around Australia
I’ve just spent a couple of hours with Maude Barlow, the Canadian water activist and Senior Adviser on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly. Maude was in town to give the...
View ArticleActivist honoured for fighting companies blowing up mountain after mountain...
The 2009 recipients of the Goldman Prize are inspirational to all campaigners that have been doing the hard slog for months/years/decades for a better earth. Check out this year’s recipients here. One...
View ArticleShould we be calling anything sustainable development?
Yesterday, I spoke at the 2009 NSW Sustainable Development conference. Here’s an excerpt: How many State of the Environment Reports will it take before we start acting to ensure healthy ecosystems,...
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Say no to bottled water on your next overseas holiday
Children scavenge in a plastic wasteland in the Philippines, by J. Tanodra, UNEP I’ve just been in Vietnam for a little over three weeks and wanted to avoid buying bottled water as much as I could. Of...
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What price to address inequality?
I gave this speech in the NSW Parliament on 21 June 2012: We live in a world where iPhone cases can be bought for $US2,680 for raw titanium, or $US3,810 for gold, or $US4,430 for something called...
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