Affordable and efficient it hits US shelves next month. Let’s hope it becomes available in Australia soon. If you thought that wind turbines were too noisy, bulky, expensive, or unreliable in low winds, here’s a new product that could dispel those worries.
Surveys show that the public suspects that synthetic (manmade) chemicals released into the environment, especially pesticides, have adverse effects on human health and cause disease, including cancer. Environmental groups call for all synthetic environmental chemicals w...
How do you make safe personal care products from poisonous ingredients like lead, mercury and carcinogens? Duh, you can't! It's the simple rule "toxics in, toxics out." But the companies who make everything from shampoo to lipstick to deodorant still don't see...
According to analysts, the disaster in the Gulf is no anomaly. It's an arrow pointing toward future disasters. As long as the industry stays on this course, rather than undertaking the transition to an alternative energy future, more such catastrophes are inevitable, no...
Children exclusively fed organic dairy products are significantly less likely to develop allergies, asthma or eczema by the age of two, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Louis Bolk Institut in the Netherlands and published in the British Journal of ...
The Federal Government should fix up and re-start, not shelve, its insulation program, the Australian Conservation Foundation said today.
“Cutting the program would leave insulation workers and businesses out on a limb and would mean tens of thousands of families mis...
Australian researchers will investigate whether women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can benefit from acupuncture.
Trials overseas have shown the ancient Chinese therapy can help to combat the fatigue caused by conventional cancer treatments, says Associate Pro...
Those who partake regularly of a gluten-free slice will celebrate recent findings that abstaining from wheat doesn’t need to equate to less nutrition.
Studies from the Ashtown Food Research Centre (Teagasc in Ireland) have found the polyphenol count of flours from pseu...
Most of us love sweets. We start the day with a sweetened breakfast cereal, breakfast bars, toast with a sweet spread, or a breakfast pastry. As the day progresses, we indulge in sweet beverages from softdrinks to sweetened coffee and tea, and keep our sweet tooth satia...
As the farming environment continues to change, producers are looking to methods of biological agriculture as a means of lowering their inputs and managing limited resources.
Leading operators now recognise that managing soils and achieving higher humus levels is a ...