Our Primary Forests: A Snapshot of What Remains

The pace of deforestation has accelerated so rapidly over the past 200 years that today our planet harbors only one-quarter of its original old-growth forest—i.e., forest that has never been logged or cleared.

Using detailed satellite imagery and geographic information system technology, scientists have produced moment-in-time snapshots of these remaining forested regions.

The pictures are not pretty.
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Ride to work

Wednesday 14 October it's ride2work day again. 
Ride2Work encourages Australians to start riding to work and promotes commuting by bike as a regular habit and it is the largest national behaviour change program of its kind. 

Sign up to participate and get active!

Did you see those chemtrails today over Perth?

Trails left by aircraft with chemical or biological agents  sprayed at high altitudes for research purposes...
A speaker on the impact of these chemtrails on agriculture,  global warming and pollution:

Student Organisation Is Changing The Way We See Waste!

WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH FURNITURE AND YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, IT USUALLY ENDS UP IN THE DUMPSTER. WELL, NOT FOR ALEX FREID... More info here

The Problem Waste on college campuses balloons at the end of each academic year. For example, at the University of New Hampshire, the average 25 tons of trash per month jumped to 125 tons when students moved out in the spring. Thousands of reusable or recyclable items, including electronics containing carcinogens like lead and mercury, were sent to landfills. This is a recurring problem at universities nationwide. What’s more, it represents a fundamentally broken pattern of consumption – using Earth’s finite resources to create toxic trash that poisons people and pollutes the planet. If we don’t change course, we face resource depletion and growing toxicity in our air, soil, water, and bodies.

Or check out the Post-Landfill Action Network

Carbon tax repeal "savings"

I wonder how many people actually checked what they saved in electricity bills after the Carbon Tax Repeal?

I was doing my quarterly clean up on paperwork and came across the yellow card Synergy sent out with one of their bills. It stated that I could receive back between $46 to $122 (our average is about 10-11 units)

So I looked it up, couldn't find it until I saw this on one from October; got a meagre $5.40 back!
Wow!
That was really worth that whole Carbon Tax Repeal, isn't it???
I hope those people who didn't want the big polluters to pay are very satisfied with their 5 dollars back!

PS. There is no info available about the Carbon Tax Repeal savings on the Synergy website, the few things referring to it don't work. 

Australia's largest woodlands 'will not be protected if it prevents mining'

‘Any sort of recognition which would put constraints on mining would be absolutely devastating,’ Western Australia mining minister Bill Marmion says

Environmental recognition of the Great Western Woodlands, the largest remaining temperate woodlands in the world, will not be supported if it impinges on mining, the Western Australia mining minister, Bill Marmion, has said.

The woodlands cover 16m hectares (39m acres) from Kalgoorlie, 600km east of Perth, to Esperance and the Nullarbor Plain.

They’re home to 3,000 species of flowering plants – about 20% of all those identified in Australia – and 25% of all known eucalypt species.

But despite its ecological significance only about 12% is protected, with most falling on unallocated crown land.
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LEGO GROUP TO INVEST 1 BILLION DKK BOOSTING SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

The LEGO Group establishes LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre and expects to recruit more than 100 employees in a significant step up on the 2030 ambition of finding and implementing sustainable alternatives to current materials.

Today, the LEGO Group announces a significant investment of DKK 1 billion dedicated to research, development and implementation of new, sustainable, raw materials to manufacture LEGO® elements as well as packaging materials.

Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO and President of the LEGO Group, says:
“This is a major step for the LEGO Group on our way towards achieving our 2030 ambition on sustainable materials. We have already taken important steps to reduce our carbon footprint and leave a positive impact on the planet by reducing the packaging size, by introducing FSC certified packaging and through our investment in an offshore wind farm. Now we are accelerating our focus on materials.”
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