WANT to hear a joke? What's Evian spelt backwards? Naive. Once the joke was on companies trying to package and sell a product freely available from the tap. Twenty years on, company profits are overflowing and the joke's on Australians and their unquenchable thirst for bottled water.
RESEARCHERS in the US say they have created a paper-like membrane made of nano-scale materials that can clean up oil pollution and other chemical spills.
London. 24 June 2008. Orange today announced the launch of a mobile phone charger prototype that is powered by dance energy. The Orange Dance Charge is the result of months of research into alternate, sustainable energy sources to power mobile phones during summer music festivals. 
I am a bit sad to read this because I told you in February about my green gadget which was nominated on the Core77 website and since than has got a lot of publication internationally on all kind of trendsetting and eco blogs. I've received emails from magazines and distributers from several countries asking about the product which was only a design on paper, not real yet. 
We don't have many incandescent light bulbs left in our house as we have been changing to energy saving light bulbs for ages. This weekend the last small spiral bulb broke down and I finally had to go out for energy saving ones as I had used up all small spirals from other table lamps to use in my desk light. It's very hard to find a small spiral energy saving bulb in Perth. Our local supermarket has one, but they are huge, so I went hunting in the city, from the big chains to the smaller but none has what I was looking for and I was stunned to see that for instance Target and Dick Smith hardly had any energy saving bulbs in their shops in the city! We ended up at Ikea as people told us they had them. Only one kind also... I was a bit disappointed but bought them anyway as the ugly 'worm' was covered by a glass cover. But still far to big, the bulb is sticking half way out of the desk light so I am looking into the light which is not very nice to work in....
Yesterday, while walking around Lake Claremont, it struck me again that I haven't seen the long-neck turtles at all this year. 
Cottesloe’s beachfront and many of its multi-million-dollar homes will be destroyed by rising sea levels by 2070, a new report on the effects of climate change predicts. 
Climate change and growing demand for water will lead to supply shortages in the South-West by 2030 unless households and businesses cut their water use by 20 per cent, the Department of Water has warned. 
Sony's new flat-panel TV consumes less energy than comparable regular models without compromising image quality - the latest in Japanese manufacturers' efforts to woo buyers with green products. 
The Garnaut Climate Change Review has been commissioned by Australia's Commonwealth, state and territory governments to examine the impacts, challenges and opportunities of climate change for Australia. 
Televisions use a lot of energy in making us fat, stupid and depressed. They come fourth, behind water heating, refrigeration and lighting, in terms of energy use in the home, says the Department of the Environment. The number of televisions per household, the average screen size and the hours people spend watching television are all rising.
Each year a distinguished jury will award a single $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity.
I've just come across this article from last week and it's just what I was thinking a few weeks back. As I always have to wait for a long time at the traffic lights to cross Stirling Hwy in Claremont I watch the drivers. Most of the cars are occupied by one person and I was wondering why everyone has such a big car while being alone in it most of the time... The costs are rising and the traffic is getting busier by the day so why not share a ride with collegues or neighbours going the same way? 
Men’s total energy consumption is 20 percent higher than women’s. They also consume a substantially greater proportion of this energy on transport. This is shown in a new FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency) report by Annika Carlsson-Kanyama and Riitta Räty.
A Scuppie is a Socially Conscious Upwardly Mobile Person. 
The TREV (two-seater renewable energy vehicle) can carry two people with overnight bags and reach a top speed of 120 km/h with minimal road noise and zero emissions.
As I use the wool from Sustainable Living Fabrics for my sustainable poufs which will be exhibited at VIVID on Furnitex, Melbournes furniture show in July, I like to tell you that Sustainable Living Fabrics again has won the UNAA World Environment Day Lincoln Scott Triple Bottom Award for “their continued outstanding performance in this category”. 
WATER shortages could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, a panel of global experts has told the Goldman Sachs "Top Five Risks" conference.
AUSTRALIAN consumers are threatening to stop buying products and services that do not show an awareness for the environment, a survey has found.
Tomorrow, Thursday June 5, is World Environment Day - when people across the globe will be asking companies and communities to 'Kick the CO2 habit' by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. 