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866The reason we grow trees for wood production
Reader responses to the many articles on TT regarding forestry, highlights to me the sad state of understanding in the community, AND...
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Carbon tax: A very great move in the teeth of the Big End of Town
This is a huge step forwards, and shows considerable dexterity in making it actually a positive for most Australians dollar wise. And...
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WORTH THE WAIT? A Look at the Auditor General’s review of Forestry Tasmania
What on earth was Auditor General Mike Blake doing? Three years after commencing his investigation into the Financial and Economic Performance of...
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The Inconvenient Truth: Forestry is in crisis
When Gunns – Australia’s biggest buyer of native forest wood – said ‘no more’, resistance abounded. Instead of grabbing the opportunity for...
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Ecological Forestry
In 2007 Mike Fay, a Wildlife Conservation Society and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence decided to investigate how Earth’s tallest forests had been...
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Hempcrete Ticks the Boxes
I recently downloaded a copy of the GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT (GPP) PRODUCT SHEET, published by European Commission as a training kit for...
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How does a fiscal stimulus work these days?
It seems logical in this time of high unemployment and increasing poverty to be talking about stimulating the economy; for the federal...
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“New” nuclear reactors, same old story
It is important to have a critical mind and question a nuclear path to overcome global warming and climate change. The risks...
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My Cry from the Heart: When we have justice there will be peace
The Tasmanian Government fails in its Duty of Care to the Traditional Owners, people, electors and future generations, in its mismanagement of...
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The Magical Expansion of Life Beyond Earth
Expansion is the way of the cosmos from the beginning of time, whether light or life, so why wouldn’t Nature be wired...
