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Aussie Klara Marosszek has developed a commercially viable hemp building material. Fire and pest resistant hemp concrete is made by mixing hemp hurds (the pithy core of the stem), lime-based binder, water and a little sand. This is not a new technique, as century old bridges in France were made from hemp concrete.

Now that Earth Day has concluded I am more than sure that everyone is ready to take on the challenge and save this world, right? The big question is how? Well today I may have found one of the simplest ways that you can help save the environment and you don’t even need to get out of your computer chair. How is this possible??

"Mother Nature's Son," Sir Paul McCartney, recently expressed his disappointment with environmental NGOs for not putting greater emphasis on reducing meat consumption -- along with driving less and replacing standard light bulbs with CFLs -- as ways to fight climate change.

The face of Australian agriculture is about to change forever, as New South Wales farmers prepare to grow the country’s first genetically modified food crop in the wake of the state’s moratorium being lifted, despite warnings of an imminent catastrophe.

A series of reports by medical professionals highlight the human health issues associated with global warming.

Expected to cost some $420 million AUD ($270 million USD) the project is being constructed by Hong Kong-owned TRUenergy. The plant – which is planned to begin generating power by 2010, and be completed 2013 – is looking to provide solar power to some 45,000 homes.

Victoria's plan to roll out "smart" electricity meters to 2.4 million homes and small businesses across the state could inadvertently trigger an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a report has found. A major study commissioned by state and federal energy ministers also raises doubts about the claimed economic benefits of the scheme, with the roll-out expected to cost as much as $5.5 billion nationally by the time it is completed in 2016, for very little gain.

Victoria in Australia has created a wonderful tv commercial which represents greenhouse gases being produced by normal home appliances as black balloons. Very illustrating, and very frightening.

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog on why carbon capture, nuclear power, ethanol and all the other fake solutions we're being offered are just making things worse...and where the real solutions will come from.

Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris is been interviewed by Daz Chandler on her radio show 'Monday Overdrive'.

A cow that escaped from a farm caused havoc on a motorway on the Gold Coast of Australia on Monday. Police say they were forced to put the cow down.

In Queensland, Australia, the Nogoa River is still on the rise, but authorities say water levels should begin to recede in the region after cresting today.

Australia endured bushfires, floods and record high temperatures in its drought-ravaged foodbowl in 2007 as global warming brought the nation's sixth hottest year on record, the weather bureau said on Thursday.

Officials open the High-Level Segment of the Bali climate talks, including the new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who discussed signing the Kyoto Protocol as his first act in office.

Australia raised hopes of global action to fight climate change on Monday by agreeing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, isolating the United States at U.N.-led talks in Bali as the only rich nation not in the pact.