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Milk in glass comes home to Timboon
Schulz Organic Dairy in Timboon has sold milk in returnable glass since 2017, and from July its bottle is made in South Australia instead of shipped in from overseas.
Small changes
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Small changes that feel good and add up, at home, in the garden and on the way out the door.
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A Sunday at Woytopia, and the plates that came back
We caught the train up the coast on a spring Sunday for Woytopia, the free sustainable living festival the Peninsula Environment Group has run with volunteers since 2008. Here is the day as we lived it, from the first plate to the last tree.
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Why we love the rain: the science of that smell, and the tiny lives it wakes
That smell when rain lands on warm ground has a name, an Australian one, and behind it is a partnership between soil bacteria and tiny creatures that is 400 million years old.
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Tucson is planting a million trees where the heat bites hardest
Tucson, Arizona had 112 days over 38 degrees in 2024. Its answer is a million trees by 2030, native species chosen for birds and pollinators as much as shade, and up to three free trees for any household on the streets that need them most.
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Native food festival at Carriageworks this weekend
Finger limes, wattleseed, sea succulents and the people who grow them fill Carriageworks on Saturday and Sunday, with Kylie Kwong and Bruce Pascoe among the cooks and storytellers.
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Good news lands when it is felt together
A new study from the University of California San Diego on what happens when we share good news finds the magic is not in understanding the teller. It is in feeling glad alongside them.
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One more shared meal, and life feels better
Researchers at Oxford, Harvard, UCL and Gallup put a number on something every family table already knows: people who eat with others more often are happier, wherever in the world they live.
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Sharks, whales and teddy bears over the surf: Festival of the Winds is today
Festival of the Winds has turned Bondi Beach into a moving painting every September since 1978. This year's is today, Sunday 13 September, it is free, and the best way in is the train and a walk down the hill.
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Write a poem about Country, and a tree goes in the ground for it
POEM FOREST plants a native tree in Wollongong for every nature poem a student or teacher sends in. More than 22,800 are already growing, and this year's round closes on 25 September.
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Four things for spring, all made here from what the country already has
Spring is here, and so are four things worth having on the bench or in the pantry: a trowel pressed from bottle caps, a nursery of the native plants our birds and insects depend on, native flavours for the pantry, and furniture that comes back to be made again.
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In Lismore the rainforest is coming back to the river, and you can help plant it
More than 17,000 native plants are in the ground across sixteen sites in Lismore, some already taller than the people who planted them, and three spring planting mornings are open to anyone with a spare pair of hands.
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A bike bus is a school run with a playlist
Started by a Barcelona neighbourhood and a Portland PE teacher, the bike bus has become the loveliest way to get to school: a moving line of kids on bikes, parents front and back, music on, cars left at home. New school terms in the north are starting the same way this month.