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ACNE PREVENTION | 2 comments

Tea Tree Oil Uses

BY Tea TreeThu Dec 3, 2009 at 3:27 AM

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ACNE PREVENTION | Comment

Tea Tree Oil Is Melaleuca Alfornia

BY Tea TreeSun Nov 29, 2009 at 2:46 PM

Learn more about this natural little wonderREAD»

AUSTRALIA | Comment

SMEs FINDING SUSTAINABILITY BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE COST

BY Brett GalvinSun Oct 25, 2009 at 7:37 PM

Half of all Australian Small and Medium Enterprises are willing to take action to become more sustainable even if it has a negative impact on their financial performance in the short term. This 51% equates to 153,000 businesses nationally. Leaders cited that aside from cost, a lack of information, distrust of sustainability claims and the availability of practical choices were the major barriers.READ»

KURILPA BRIDGE | Comment

World's Longest Solar-Powered Footbridge Feeds the Grid

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Oct 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM

Brisbane, Australia, has completed the ultimate feel-good footbridge--a 470-meter structure plastered in 84 solar panels that power LED lights and feed excess energy to the electrical grid. The Kurilpa Bridge, which connects South ...READ»

SHELL | Comment

Shell Building First Liquified Natural Gas Plant on Megaship

BY Ariel SchwartzFri Oct 9, 2009 at 1:06 PM

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) has been getting a lot of attention lately, in large part because the substance releases 40% to 50% less carbon dioxide than coal and a quarter less CO2 than petroleum. ExxonMobil has long been a fan of ...READ»

CIRCUITS IN PLASTIC | Comment

Plastic Circuits Make Greener Electronics, Reduce E-Waste

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Jul 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Circuits are usually made out of toxic chemical-filled silicon, but Professors David Thiel and MadhusudanRao Neeli at Australia's Griffith University think that plastic circuits could be cleaner and greener. The pair's Circuits ...READ»

ARCHITECTURE | Comment

Melbourne's Nutty Theater Complex Racks up Awards

BY Cliff KuangMon Jul 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM

An instantly recognizable theater complex in Melbourne wins a citation as the state's best new building.READ»

NATIONAL BROADBAND | 4 comments

Australia Plans National Fiber Broadband Net as U.S. Debates Stimulus Funds

BY Kit EatonTue Apr 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM

The Australian government has announced it'll push ahead with plans for a nationwide broadband network, just as U.S. officials mull and argue the fine points of how to improve net access across the country with money from the ...READ»

A123 SYSTEMS | Comment

Tech Watch: Australian Companies Fund Electric Vehicle Grid

BY Chris DannenTue Oct 28, 2008 at 5:00 AM

Better Place, a US firm that builds plug-in stations for electric cars, has just landed a $667 million USD deal to build charging networks in Australia’s three largest cities. Like smaller-scale Better Place deals already underway in Denmark and Israel, the Australian charging network will allow battery-powered and hybrid car-owners to charge their vehicles at thousands of locations, or have their vehicles batteries swapped out for faster fill-ups. READ»

ADVERTSING | Comment

Thoughts on digital publishing and this new model.

BY Matthew KingSun Feb 10, 2008 at 10:51 AM

It is great to see Fast Company engage a powerful new publishing media. And I am really interested to see how well the community will engage with this journalism/community experiment. We engaged a smaller scale trial last year ...READ»

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