Update. August 2011 Flow movie night ... Puma Detox ... National Food Plan ... Phosphates ... Rainforests & our Paper ... Events |
Screening Thursday, 11th August, at Kate & Jason's place, Newport, Melbourne's west. Dinner 6.30, Movie 8.00pm, RSVP to Nick. The last in this series of meal & movie nights. Find out how to run your own. "Can
anyone really own water?" Politics, pollution, human rights,
a domineering world water cartel. Flow builds a case
against the growing privatisation of the world's dwindling fresh water
supply. more |
Puma Detox! |
National Food Plan |
Phosphate Phase-out |
See more news.
Up to 17 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from tropical forest clearance and Indonesia has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. In fact, forest destruction has helped to make Indonesia the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gasses.
Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd (APRIL) run the world’s biggest paper plant in Sumatra, Indonesia, and were featured on ABC’s Foreign Correspondent (2/8/11) with the story “Paper/Tiger” showing the massive clearing of rainforests and peatlands, and replanting with plantation timber to feed the plant. Their key brand of copy paper Paper One is labeled as 'Environmentally friendly - paper from 100% plantation fiber'. >> Avoid where possible. |
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP)
is the other main player in Indonesia’s deforestation. APRIL and
APP together produce 80% of Indonesia’s pulp and paper (more).
Greenpeace recently initiated a campaign, noting there are now less
than 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, and targeting
IGA (independent supermarket chain) whose signature
brand Black & Gold toilet paper uses pulp from APP. |
HarperCollins, one of Rupert Murdoch’s companies, is the
only major children’s book publisher left in the U.S. that has not
come to the table to address rainforest fiber in its books. The
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has run a campaign on paper policy
to protect Indonesia’s precious rainforests by having publishers
not source pulp from APP and APRIL. |
Looking for Ethical Paper We recommend,
where possible, to source copy paper that has the highest amount
of recycled content, and highest amount of ‘post-consumer’ recycled
content, and remaining plantation content that is certified. (Unfortunately
those copy papers available are often not made in Australia). |
More movies... ‘Slow
Down! @Harley Court’ restaurant in St Kilda (VIC) are running
‘Appetite for Insight Foodie Film’ nights on the
2nd Monday of each month. Food at Slow Down! is all organic and/or
locally sourced. Film nights include Q&A session with expert
on the topic. |
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