Habitat Australia articles from June 1999

Habitat Australia archives from June 1999

Letters.(Review)
June 1, 1999... green VIEWS Your letters to the editor are welcome. Send them to Louise Ray, Editor Habitat, 340 Gore Street, Fitzroy, 3065, Fax: (03) 9416 0767 or email to hab@peg.apc.org Paper recycling in Australia Jon Gray of ACF Sydney...

campaign TRIALS.
June 1, 1999... ACF Appeal Australia faces nuclear crossroads Progressive governments around the world are turning away from dangerous and expensive nuclear energy -- compared to renewables, it is a dying industry kept alive only by massive government...

NUCLEAR POLICY MELTDOWN.
June 1, 1999... The Australian government is currently pushing to implement what has been described as one of the most aggressively pro-nuclear policies of any national government in the world. A SNAPSHOT of events over just seven days in late April-early...

PEOPLE GET READY.
June 1, 1999... Young people are the present and the future of the environment movement, says Kellee Nolan. THEY CARE ABOUT the environment and they act on their concerns in a range of ways. Young people learn about environmental issues through education,...

Leadership or crisis management--what role should the Commonwealth play?
June 1, 1999... The biggest rewrite of environmental laws for 25 years is poised to hit the Senate and it is deeply flawed, says John Connor. FRASER ISLAND, the Franklin River, the Queensland Wet Tropics. Struggles to protect these places have played a...

SAY `NO!' TO GENE TECH'S BITTER HARVEST.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 1999... Food used to be something you just ate, Now you need to think twice about it. Without warning, genetically engineered foods have landed on Australia's supermarket shelves untested, unassessed and unlabelled. Everyone is asking why, and what it...

Renewable not nuclear!
June 1, 1999... Is nuclear power the answer to Australia's fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions? Definitely not. RENEWABLE ENERGY, not nuclear, is the answer to our country's pressing need to reduce greenhouse pollution. In today's globally...

consuming CHOICES.
June 1, 1999... Questions raised this month deal with two unrelated products that meet up at the landfill site: disposable nappies and dry cell batteries. Dry cell batteries Brian Fitches from Kyneton Secondary College, Victoria has set himself and...

LIVING WATER.(religion and nature)
June 1, 1999... There are some important things that are often spoken about in terms of balance. Law. Life. Nature. The future. In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the Karajarri people want to be heard. Their important things, like the future of...

Don't make your home a museum of rare timbers.
June 1, 1999... Australia's plantations can supply all our building timbers, so our remaining native forests do not need to be logged or woodchipped. As author Alan T. Gray explains, this is the message of Forest-Friendly Building Timbers, a book that hit the...

Generating ideas.
June 1, 1999... Nick Curmi became an ACF member this year. An environmentalist, sculptor and artist in residence at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, his work uses art to draw attention to the paradoxes in our conventional systems of energy...