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• Woolworths (Safeway) has a conscience over paper

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 08:53 in australia, CSR, ecological, fair trade, Paper, safeway, shopping, woolworths

  Interesting example of corporate social responsibility over at Woolworths, they recently ended a contract with an Indonesian paper company due to concerns over the sustainability of the trees used. It...

• Chinese Olympian Waterworks

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 in china, ecological, human rights, water

  Things are getting ridiculous in China, what with the diversion of rivers, grabbing of water from farmers, and general carrying on for the Olympics. To put on a good face for the world Beijing is taki...

• [MINI]Desalination technology is getting better

  Posted on Tuesday June 24th, 2008 at 23:23 in desalination, ecological, water

  Reverse osmosis technology is getting better. Currently desalination accounts for 0.5% of world water use and requires a crazy amount of energy to make it happen. Even if the energy problem is solved,...

• Chernobyl turns into nature reserve

  Posted on Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 03:59 in bison, chernobyl, ecological

  Ukraine is turning the Chernobly exclusion zone into a bison reserve. That’s one place I’d actgually love to visit - might come away with super powers. BISON MAN!SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title...

• So we’re trading water now?

  Posted on Sunday June 1st, 2008 at 05:40 in ecological, economics, Trading, water

  Given what Fiji has done to the environment selling their bottled water, I’m a bit worried about the rise of water as a big investment opportunity.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "So we’re tra...

• Where’s all the water?

  Posted on Saturday May 17th, 2008 at 02:55 in ecological, graphics, water

  Great graphic over at Aguanomics on where the world’s water is. 97.5% in the oceans, 68.7% of freshwater in glaciers. Eegads! The geographic location/ownership of world water resources would be ...

• Insane water deals with Nestle in Northern California

  Posted on Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at 04:47 in California, ecological, economics, nestle, water

  Aguanomics highlights the insanity in the recent water deal between Nestle and McCloud in Northern California. Really crazy stuff.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Insane water deals with Nestle in Norther...

• Sustainable banking awards

  Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 16:53 in banks, ecological, ft, sustainable

  The Financial Times have released their list of sustainable banking awards. I couldn’t see any Aussie banks.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sustainable banking awards", url: "http://www.james5.org/...