A recent nationwide survey showed that the health of Australian schoolchildren is worse in one distinct area than about ten years ago. These days, our children show disturbingly high levels of iodine deficiency. Alarmingly, about 50% of those examined were deficient eno...
Most of us are regular users of today’s modern technology. Where would we be without our computer, the internet, our mobile phones? But at what stage does technology’s potential for harm begin to outweigh its usefulness?
A preliminary decision recently released by th...
Keeping your teeth squeaky clean has been drummed into us since we were old enough to hold a toothbrush. But at what cost to our overall health? Because, even if you eat organic or unprocessed foods and live a generally healthy life, what goes into your mouth twice a da...
There is no shortage of stats on how much better organic produce is for the body. It follows that 'no chemicals' would also be better for the land. But scientific evidence is mounting that organic farming is often better for the climate as well.
To all intents and purposes, Martin Meek, Managing Director of the Flannery Group, had a good life. A great family, the business plan on track, healthy food from the business he helps steer and time for fun like surfing, snow skiing and the yearly Byron Bay ocean swim. ...
As the sands of time slowly empty into the bottom of the yearly hourglass, we're trying to decide if we should make this resolution or that, or even trying to come to terms with our ability (or inability) to make and keep resolutions at all.
Many of you will have seen the latest advertising campaign by the Westpac Bank telling us that 'every generation should live better than the last' and promoting the fact that they were Australia’s first bank to adopt the Equator Principles.
We could conclude from stories like the previous articles that the environment can indeed be improved and some ingenious people are working hard to improve it. High productivity in a healthy environment is certainly possible. But it isn't guaranteed, not until this kind...
The average new house in Sweden requires only half as much energy to heat and cool as the average American new house (per square foot, under identical climatic conditions), and it costs less and is more solidly built. Sweden imposes stricter energy standards on construc...
Companies are learning that they can make money cleaning up their environmental act. The 3M Corporation in St. Paul Minnesota, US, has redesigned its manufacturing processes to eliminate each year 90,000 tons of air pollutants, 10,000 tons of water pollutants, a million...