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How to furnish your home cheaply without help from Ikea
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When Katrina Ellis set out to furnish her and her partner Tyson's green remodel in Melbourne, Australia, in keeping with the sustainable theme she bought nearly all the home's furniture secondhand, but she didn't see it as a sacrifice: "9 times out of 10 it's better ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Outback Café: cooking with Kutjera and Lemon Myrtle
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Muntrie berries and Tanami apples, Kutjera and Wattleseed: "this is the true cuisine of this country. It's not a meat pie or a Fosters and it's not a prawn on a barbie." Australian Aboriginal chef Mark Olive has been using this food in his cooking for over twenty ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
To market, to market in Melbourne, Australia
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One of the easiest ways to shop locally and seasonally- and avoid all that well-traveled food- are farmers markets. The Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne Australia is the largest open air market in the Southern Hemisphere and most of its produce is local to Victoria. In this video, Melbourne resident ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Shampoo in a yogurt container & buying in bulk in Melbourne
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A trip to the supermarket normally implies a new load of plastic containers and packaging, but there is an alternative: buying in bulk and refilling recycled containers. In this video, Kasey Sparks from Melbourne's (Australia) Friends of the Earth food co-op showed us their bulk goods, recycled containers and ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A wine merchant who will refill your bottle over and over
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If you follow the 3 R's, you know that it's better to reuse than simply recycle. This is no longer advice for just cloth bags and diapers, but even for luxury goods. Melbourne (Australia) based Swords Wines offers customers their vintages in returnable, re-useable 1 liter swing top ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
And Australia is still trying... CFLs
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I am very pleased about how well my new Compact Florescent Lights (CFLs) look and work (after being installed). However, they were much too hard to find. I looked high and low for an efficient but powerful CFL and ended up having to buy them nearly an hour out of ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: tdirksen user comments
Slow pedestrianization: how to take cars out of cities
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It sounds a bit eco-utopian, but cars are being banned not just from eco-towns like Abu Dhabi's Masdar or Germany's Vauban, but from congested downtowns like New York and possibly San Francisco and Melbourne (Australia).In Cameron Crowe's 1992 movie "Singles", one character- a transportation engineer- argues ...
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1 year, 4 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
Les Jardiniers de la Mer
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Les Jardiniers de la Mer focuses on the problem of ocean pollution from detergents, which causes damage to flora and fauna.
Email: jardinierdelamer@wanadoo.fr. [Français]Les Objectifs
Protéger et reconquérir les milieux naturels détruits.
Proposer et participer à des actions d'information et de sensibilisation auprès des scol...
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1 year, 6 months ago by: nicolas.boullosa staff comments
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Peregrine Fund
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Peregrine Fund works to ensure the survival and restore diminished populations of birds - mostly raptors - worldwide.
The organization was founded in 1970 by Tom Cade,then the Professor of Ornithology at Cornell University. The Peregrine Fund developed from the shared concern that the Peregrine Falcon might go extinct in the ...
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1 year, 6 months ago by: faircompanies faircompanies 1 comments
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Comite de Sauvegarde du site de Clarency
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Comite de Sauvegarde du site de Clarency - Valensole is fighting the construction of a huge landfill slated for Verdon Natural Park.
Email: comiteclarency@aol.com. [Français]Le Conseil Municipal sortant s'était (sauf 3 voix contre et 1 abstention), prononcé en 1999, pour une révision du Plan d'occupation des ...
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1 year, 6 months ago by: nicolas.boullosa staff comments
