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• No Off Grid Rebates? Any Other Disgruntleds?

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  The Age’s Paying the price of going solar spells out some problems. Linda, a western Victorian reader, has also alerted us to the problem of doing the right thing but being ineligible for any of the Green Loans available if you’re not connected to the grid. Linda and her partner ‘have done everything green ...
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• Nest Egg Gone Retirees ‘Saved’ By Home Reversion Scheme

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  Retirees Keith and Helen Cowie faced a financial crisis three years ago when their nest egg nearly petered out reports The Australian . At 76 Keith, like many others, considered a reverse mortgage, where the equity in a home is used as security to borrow more, though he was concerned that there may not be anything ...
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• Sign The Avaaz Petition For A ‘Real Deal’ At Copenhagen

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  Passing on the Avaaz message: “With three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing. Tomorrow, the world’s leaders arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop catastrophic global warming ...
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• Tourism Research Highlights Available Free

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  The Tourism Satellite Accounts provide all states and territories with comprehensive data on the economic impacts of visitor expenditure on their economies. The 2007-08: Summary Spreadsheets have just been released and are available free from the STCRC (Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Committee). ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dick Warburton On Carbon Tax vs ETS

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  HAS there been a community discussion/debate on the merits of a Carbon Tax versus the cap and trade Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)? Dick Warburton, former company director and former Reserve Bank board member who chairs an advisory committee on aid to industries affected by carbon trading, thinks NOT . In an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Water-Energy-Climate Nexus = Radical Rethink

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  The linkage between water, energy and Climate Change raised its head at the 12th International Rivers Symposium in Brisbane September 09. Thank you to Bernard Eddy of AWN for providing some thought provoking leads. Julia Imrie of Rivers SOS wrote the following succinct precis of a discussion relevant to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cap For Green Loans Home Sustainability Assessor Training

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  Become A Green Loans Home Sustainability Assessor has been a very popular PWF article for many months now. However an assessor cap has been applied and on 24 December the Government will cease certifying assessors. In a recent Green Loans newsletter the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors (ABSA) ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cooperative To Save Tassie Food Processing Jobs?

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  The Tasmanian Greens have launched a ‘Cooperative Tasmania’ (pdf) initiative and have a proposal for the McCain vegetable processing plant there due to close November 2010. Putting the business into the hands of the community rather than simply bailing out the company, makes a lot of sense, says Alan Greig ...
  3 weeks ago

• Victorian ‘FireReady’ Map To Check Out…

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  Lane Burdett has sent us info about a new community project designed to keep Victorians up-to-date with fire news this summer. A new website – created by Harshit Sekhon – uses live feeds from the CFA/MFB, Police and the Bureau of Meteorology to show graphically where fires are in Victoria at any given point ...
  3 weeks ago

• Walking For Health And Fun

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  We wrote about safe, inclusive walkable neighbourhoods – the new Victoria Walks website – some weeks ago and the program is now officially launched with info to both inspire and coach you in how to assess and then lobby your local government on needs in your neighbourhood . What Victorians – And Other ...
  3 weeks ago

• GetUp Mission: Get Young Pacific Islanders To Copenhagen

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  PWF doesn’t pass on all GetUp requests but THIS one…at a time when Copenhagen is ????? If you haven’t seen the email, GetUp says: “We’ve just been told there’s a bunch of impressive young Pacific Islanders who can’t afford to travel to Copenhagen to tell the world’s leaders that the decisions ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Change Doubt/Chaos And The Effects Already Here?

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  The Country Hour’s Hobart presenter, Anna Vidot, reports today that while our pollies have been doing very much what pollies do, more than 70 Australian scientists reviewing ‘The Maritime Climate Change in Australia Report Card ‘ believe Australia’s marine environment has already been affected by climate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Change, Medium-Density Cities And Transport Policy

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 122
  Congrats to Dr Paul Mees, a Senior lecturer in Transport Planning at Melbourne’s RMIT University, for an inquiring mind and some good clear thinking . Paul observes how Melburnians are being lambasted for low density living and suburban gardens causing the city to sprawl while the stats waved in our faces have ...
  3 weeks ago

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