Category: Sustainable Settlement and Agriculture
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.
admin /6 November, 2009
Hi all, there’s been a dribble of press in Australia over the last couple of daysthat I and others have been trying to foster over the Rudd Government’sactions over at the Barcelona prep com for Copenhagen, culminating in thewalkout of developing nations led by Africa. NOW is the time to get writing letters to eds Continue Reading →
admin /4 November, 2009
UK bans Malaysian palm oil advert Ecologist 3rd November, 2009 Second advert from palm oil industry lobby group is banned for its sustainability claims A magazine advert that endorsed the sustainability of palm oil has been banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for making unsubstantiated and untruthful claims. The advert, produced by the Continue Reading →
admin /2 November, 2009
Why growing virgin vegetable oil to burn is crazy
The chief executive of Blue-NG implies he’s greener than the Greens – but the argument for his grotesque trade falls flat
Growing rapeseed oil for power stations harms people and the environment. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
What makes more sense, burning virgin vegetable oil in car engines, or burning it in power stations? The answer is neither. In both cases you are snatching food from people’s mouths.
admin /21 October, 2009
Green loans scheme headed for collapse Canberra, Wednesday 21 October 2009 The Rudd Government’s Green Loans Scheme cannot handle the communitydemand and is headed for collapse, according to figures obtained inSenate Estimates hearings late last night. “Tens of thousands of Australian families and households have registeredtheir interest in greening up their homes, but a pitiful Continue Reading →
admin /20 October, 2009
Power line to cut green corridor’s missing link
BEN CUBBY
October 21, 2009
THE state’s electricity agency is planning to build power lines through one of the last gaps in the ”green corridor” that is supposed to link the Snowy Mountains to Queensland.
The new power line will link Lismore with Tenterfield, giving parts of northern NSW access to more energy from coal-fired power plants in Queensland.
It will pass through several sections of the wildlife corridor that is central to the NSW Government’s Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, which aims to create a network of near-continuous bushland along the Great Dividing Range, allowing animals to migrate and adapt to the effects of climate change.
admin /16 October, 2009
Deforestation and the true cost of Europe’s cheap meat
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment Netwo
- Andrew Wasley, from the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment Network
- guardian.co.uk, Friday 16 October 2009 12.06 BST
- Article history
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence
