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EcoBlog

Australian green blogs, commentary and analysis
Tags >> Ecoisms

Ecoisms: Sydney gets twice as much rain as London, why are we short of water?

Posted by: on 05 Aug, 2009

Tagged in: water , Ecoisms

Sydney doesn’t need the $2 billion desalination plant. The Hunter doesn’t need the proposed $300 million Tillegra dam.

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Ecoisms: Extinction, flooding, climate change… have you seen Miranda Kerr’s hair?

Posted by: on 05 Aug, 2009

Most of the Australian media missed it, but a survey out last week reported the world is in the midst of its “sixth great extinction event”, with Australia one of the planet’s worst extinction hotspots.

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Ecoisms: It's what's not in organic food that counts

Posted by: on 31 Jul, 2009

Tagged in: organic , food , Ecoisms

A new study says organic food has no more nutrients than conventional food. But the study leaves out some important points.

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Ecoisms: Food prices have doubled, but food is still too cheap

Posted by: on 27 Jul, 2009

Tagged in: food , Ecoisms , agriculture

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures just out show food prices have doubled since 1980. But in real terms food has never been cheaper. However, cheap food comes at a cost, and that cost is the destruction of the soil - and with it, the future.

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Ecoisms: How global warming could save Australian farmers

Posted by: on 17 Jul, 2009

Global warming could just be the break our farmers need. If we start paying our farmers to save us from climate change, then climate change may just save our farmers. 

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