Believe it or not… the earth is getting greener!

by | 7 May 2015 | Starfish

While the news coming out of forests is often dominated by deforestation and habitat loss, new research published in Nature Climate Change shows that the world has actually got greener over the past decade. Despite ongoing deforestation in South America and Southeast...

Waste-free hair dressing

by | 7 May 2015 | Starfish

Sustainable Salons Australia (SSA), a program to divert 95% of the waste generated in hair salons from landfill, is proving to be a valuable marketing tool for businesses that sign up. SSA provides salons with a “swap and go” multi-bin system that collects about 95%...

Community supported business models

by | 15 Apr 2015 | Starfish

You may be familiar with community supported agriculture (CSA) ~ which is where locals purchase a share of the season’s harvest upfront and get a box of fresh produce each week from the farm. Now you can get your craft beer that way too! By purchasing a craft brewery...

The 6th Great Extinction

by | 24 Mar 2015 | Starfish

More than 10 per cent of Australia’s native mammals have become extinct since European settlement. The extinction rate is higher than on any other continent. There have been five major extinctions in the history of Earth. We are now entering the sixth. Elizabeth...

Farming the Sun wins Growing Community Energy grant

by | 18 Mar 2015 | Energy, Starfish

Starfish’s Farming the Sun initiative is one of six community energy projects in northern NSW who have been awarded grants by the NSW government. State-wide, there were 19 projects which shared $846,000 in the latest round of funding to help advance local renewable...

Is your diet eating up the climate?

by | 18 Mar 2015 | Local Food, Starfish

A new UK study measures and compares the dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat- and fish-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans. The journal Climatic Change published the first-ever study which compares the dietary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of real-life meat-eaters...

Radical land regeneration

by | 18 Mar 2015 | Starfish

The origins of the word ‘radical’ come from the Latin ‘radox’, which means to get to the root of things. Sustainability requires radicalism, in its true meaning, to ensure that the way we live and go about living is indeed regenerative and renewable over time. David...