The Generator is founded on the simple premise that we should leave the world in better condition than we found it. The news items in this category outline the attempts people have made to do this. They are mainly concerned with our food supply and settlement patterns. The impact that the human race has on the planet.
Gunns’ approval for mill ‘invalid Matthew Denholm | May 11, 2009 Article from: The Australian STATE approval for Gunns Tasmanian pulp mill is invalid and wide open to legal challenge, according to an analysis to be published by a leading administrative law expert. Michael Stokes, University of Tasmania senior law lecturer, told The Australian his Continue Reading →
In an example of how the abstract world of finances can impact on the real supply of food, olive producer Boundary Bend stopped picking $26million worth of olives last week because of fears it would not be paid because the company that owned 20% of the crop, Timbercorp, is under administration. Timbercorp’s administrator successfully applied Continue Reading →
From The Land IDEAL growing conditions during two wet summers have kicked along stands of native Mitchell grass re-established by landholders on the north-west plains. A number of farmers in the Walgett and Coonamble areas have restored Mitchell grass pastures to their properties, reclaiming in particular old farming country and weed infested areas. The once-vast Continue Reading →
From The Land WITH global raw sugar prices forecast to continue an upward trend on the back of what’s shaping up to be an international crop deficit of six million tonnes this financial year, interest in putting additional NSW northern coastal land under cane is growing. World market raw sugar prices have traded between US12.5 Continue Reading →
From the Australian Financial Review Up to 19 giant olive harvesting machines, each referred to as “The Colossus”, were switched off at 7pm on Monday on two Victorian olive plantations by an entity that is 19.4 per cent owned by the failed Timbercorp Securities. According to The Australian Financial Review, Boundary Bend, an entity that Continue Reading →
From Science Daily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504171947.htm). It talks about newly discovered chorophyll molecules in green bacteria that exist in low-light conditions. It may have implications in the development of “artificial photsynthetic systems.”
ScienceDaily (May 5, 2009) — An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team’s results one day could be used to build artificial photosynthetic systems, such as those that convert solar energy to electrical energy.
A research paper about the discovery will be published on 4 May 2009 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.