steve dow, journalist

July 5, 2008

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Can't see wood for the ...

Year: 2008

Carbon credit brokers have sprung up across the nation. It’s the environmental cottage industry we had to have in the long wait until 2010 before Australia finally gets a national emissions trading scheme. But who is policing them?

Australia needs a compulsory registry for carbon credits sold to ensure the credits are “retired” from the market, argues the Global Sustainability Institute at Melbourne’s RMIT University.

Wriggle room

Year: 2008

I have come to Redfern to see a man about some worms. A 250-gram, $30 package of 1000 of this man's red and tiger worms will get the party started.

Graeme Endean lifts the lid of one of the nine worm farms in his backyard: beneath a layer of wet newspaper, his worms are munching away on cooked and raw fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grinds and vacuum-cleaner dust.

Stage fright

Year: 2008

Major performing arts companies, including the likes of the Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse and Sydney Theatre Company, account for just "10 to 15% of total activity" of new Australian productions, fresh research has found.

The finding confirms a report by former Melbourne Theatre Company associate director Julian Meyrick in 2005, who warned of a real danger that emerging writers would just disappear.


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