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Category: Lifelong Learning

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What's in the Box - What's new

What's new with Museum in a Box?

By: Karen Player, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 21 Sep 2011

Museum in a Box - Bush Tucker

What's in the Box - You tell me!

The Museum in a Box program has been running for 47 years. To keep the program running for another 47 years we need to know how you use the program.

By: Karen Player, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 19 Sep 2011

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Extended Producer Responsibility: Choice or Duty?

Should the government impose schemes for industries to bear the responsibility for the impact that their products have on the environment?

By: Isabelle Kingsley, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 14 Sep 2011

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Coal Seam Gas, Yes or No?

Coal Seam Gas, our next viable energy solution or environmental issue?

By: Jonathon Cant, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 09 Sep 2011

Climate Change

Carbon Footprints

How big is your footprint really?  

By: Jonathon Cant, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 09 Sep 2011

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Eureka! Triumph for Carbon Neutral Events

Events, whether large or small, impact the environment—they consume a lot of resources and produce excessive waste. You can make any event carbon neutral by measuring its footprint and offsetting the impact of this through the purchase of carbon offsets.

By: Isabelle Kingsley, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 07 Sep 2011

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Here's What You Said

We asked, you answered, we listened...here's the results.

By: Jonathon Cant, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 02 Sep 2011

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Enforcement necessary on greenwashing?

'It’s not easy being green' but some manufacturers don’t make it any easier with misleading green claims. How can you trust if a product’s claims are accurate or if they're just greenwash?

By: Isabelle Kingsley, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 01 Sep 2011

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Visual art workshops with special exhibition

School students have the chance to respond to the stunning artworks in the Beauty from Nature: art of the Scott Sisters exhibition, opening this week.

By: Ms Helen Wheeler, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 30 Aug 2011

Banded Carpet Shark at Broughton Island

Food for thought: Love your seafood AND our oceans!

It’s no secret—Australians love their seafood! But a lot of the fish we love is not sustainably fished or farmed. Are you willing to swap your favourite yellow fin tuna for a more sustainable yellow eye mullet?

By: Isabelle Kingsley, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 30 Aug 2011