Environment
1EarthMedia covers the environmental impact of climate change, native timber logging, fracking and gas emissions, and unsustainable development. Our interests lay in ensuring that industry factors in the environment and human costs of doing business.
Carbon Credits Used to Plug Orphan Oil & Gas Wells for Methane Emissions
Carbon Credits Used to Plug Orphan Oil & Gas Wells American Carbon Registry's (ACR) has published a new methodology for quantifying and validating greenhouse gas...
Logged native forests mostly end up in landfill
The first myth we want to address is logging native forests is beneficial because the carbon is stored in wood products. This argument depends on the proportion of forest biomass ending up in wood products, and how long they last before ending up in landfill.
Victoria’s exit from native forest logging is welcome & long overdue
By the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash...
Victorian Government to end native forest logging
23 May 2023 - Conservationists celebrate reports that state government will end native forest logging by the end of the year. This morning the ABC has reported that...
Taxpayers hit with $5 million bill to log koala habitat
$5 million to kill koalas: NCC calls for halt on logging in Great Koala National Park. The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC),...
Permaculture – Seeds & Nurseries & Organic Certification
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE - SECTION 15.SEEDS, PLANT NURSERIES & ORGANIC CERTIFICATION Farmers have bred and tended crops for more than 12,000 years. Slowly, with careful...
18. Permaculture – Waste Water Disposal & Recycling
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE - SECTION 13. WASTE DISPOSAL AND RECYCLING Permaculture design emphasizes the creation of sustainable systems that mimic natural ecosystems. One of its...
Fracking incidents on cattle station in Beetaloo Basin NT
Update: 24 August 2023 - Two workers allege they were told to keep spraying contaminated drill rig water around a gas fracking site in...
Captured states relationship to fossil fuel industry
Impact of Australian governments' and parties' relationship to fossil fuel industry Australian governments, and many other nominally democratic governments around the world, have been captured...
Moratorium on New Coal, Gas and Oil Bill 2022
The Moratorium on New Coal, Gas and Oil Bill 2022 did not proceed to a vote in Parliament in 2022 due to the Australian...