Queensland University of Technology news article featuring a soil testing kit aimed at reducing fertiliser cost and greenhouse gas emissions, and improving soil health and food production. This kit is usable by farmers worldwide, and article includes comments by Institute for Sustainable Resources’ research director Professor Peter Grace. Additional link to Healthy Soils website, which contains details of the kit presentation.
This section of Brisbane City Council’s Clean and Green City website contains information on type of items you can recycle and the benefits of recycling to our environment.
This section of the South Australian Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure provides information on the State’s solution to waste generated from biomass energy.
This section of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources provides information on how to recycle used motor oil and provides links to oil collection facilities closest to your area.
Report by the Crawford Fund calls for research into growing food in northern Australia, to not only provide food supplies during climate change, but also pass on valuable knowledge to
(ABC News, 15/11/08)
The Australian Federal Government plans to study non-lethal methods of whale research, which will not only discover how the world’s whales are coping with climate change and other problems, but only prove to Japan that whales can be studied without killing them.
(ABC News, 17/11/08)