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Fifty cities in the US have been earmarked for radical reconstruction as part of a plan to revitalise America’s rust belt. The plan involves the bulldozing of sprawling suburbs in economically depressed cities to revitalise community, reduce transport and infrastructure requirements and ensure food security. The plan was developed for Flint, sixty miles north of Continue Reading →
The Waxman-Markey climate bill is the best we will get from America until the corruption of public life is addressed
Whether he is seeking environmental reforms, health reforms or any other improvement in the life of the American people, Obama’s real challenge is to address corruption of public life in the United States.’ Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP
It would be laughable anywhere else. But, so everyone says, the Waxman-Markey bill which is likely to be passed in Congress today or tomorrow, is the best we can expect – from America.
Olympian and Sunrice ambassador, Stephanie Rice, joined farmers, business people, councillors and politicians in the corridors of power on Wednesday to lend her support to the Albury-based Water4Food initiative.
About 70 guests attended the “bipartisan breakfast” at Parliament House to raise the profile of the Water4Food organisation.
Water4Food aims for a balance between water for food production and the environment and to raise awareness of food security.
The strident campaign to increase environmental flows in the Murray Darling Basin has left many irrigators feeling like “common criminals”, former NFF president and leading farm businessman, Peter Corish, said this week.
Speaking at the NFF’s first national congress in Brisbane, Mr Corish said “grassroots” irrigators had been largely excluded from the current water reform process and many believed they were now seen as “rapers and pillagers” in the wider community.
Last week’s Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) crop report flagged a five percent year on year increase in total winter crop production with the 2009-10 forecast sitting at 34.8 million tonnes.
There is predicted to be a one percent increase in acreage, up to 21.9 million hectares.
