Green websites!

AFMA: Finder: VIC

A link to farmers' markets in Victoria

TreeHugger

TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. At TreeHugger we know that variety is the spice of life, so you can find all you need to go green in our up to the minute blog, weekly and daily newsletters, weekly video segments, weekly radio show and our user-generated blog, Hugg. We also extend our expertise to companies looking for a little green guidance. Past clients include Domino, Sundance Channel and House & Garden.

TreeHugger is helping the masses get hooked on sustainability, and thankfully, it appears the masses are getting hooked on TreeHugger. Press notables have hailed us as “Having Balls,” dubbing us a “green CNN”, and a “Green Blog God.” Media empires like The Oprah Winfrey Show, Martha Stewart and the Sundance Channel have taken note. We've also been honored by several prestigious award ceremonies. In 2006, TreeHugger took home a Vloggie for being the "Best Green Vlog." For three consecutive years in a row (2005,2006,2007) TreeHugger was nominated for a Bloggie, and, within the past two years, The Webby Awards and the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival have nominated us in various categories. Check out TreeHuggers virtual trophy case here.

Wise weeds

Wise Weeds is dedicated to living with the cycles of nature, appreciating the beauty of Mother Earth and her generosity in all the gifts she gives us.

To that end, this list is to be a forum for discussions on the medicinal, culinary and mystical uses of herbs and essential oils, with the primary emphasis on the healing properties of herbs. Aromatherapy exchanges are welcome, but it is not the primary focus of this list. Whether you wish to share information on western herbalism, ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Cherokee medicine or other practices, please feel welcome.

Greenleap

A list, hosted in Australia, for people interested in leapfrogging to an ecologically sustainable economy. The list is for the exchange of 'info gems' rather than open ended chat. If people want to discuss a specific topic we will set up a new temporary list.

Freecycling

The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,339 groups with 4,899,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them's good people). Membership is free.

Sustainable gardening links

A store of links to Australian and international groups and sites devoted to community gardening, sustainability, permaculture, local food -- well worth a look!

Homegrowers exchange

The place to go to barter or swap your excess produce.

Organic bodycare, babycare and domestic cleaning products

The world’s first extensive certified, food-grade organic range of products: skin care, body care, home care, cosmetics and nutritional products. They are Aloe Vera based with cold pressed, unrefined oils and therapeutic grade botanicals. Produced on-site to ensure there is no contamination, they are gentle on you and the environment, and grown and produced here in Australia. Please visit my webstore, check out our mission, our ingredient lists. Customer discounts available at 10-20% discount. www. simplylife.mionegroup.com or email me at simplylifeorganics@gmail.com

We are with whom the buck stops

(a post from September 2008)

Grumpybum and I are pariahs in our small town.

We shouldn’t be. Folk here live close enough to Melbourne to commute, have access to commercial media and therefore current information (albeit pre-digested and state controlled) and are close enough to “living off the land” to theoretically be invested in keeping “the land” “liveable”. But they seem to have no concept of the sustainability imperative, and no appreciation that each of our careless acts of wastefulness and needless consumerism impacts on someone, somewhere -- and ultimately, all of us.

Yesterday I entertained five minutes of madness as I thought about running in the local council elections, with the hope of leveraging some sort of passion and awareness within my community. The moment passed with the realisation that I’m simply not influential, funky, charismatic or visible enough to stand a chance for election. So this humble old monotreme will have to go back to her plodding ways of chipping at human conscious “being” and conscience while hopefully keeping her own enviro-snout clean.

Still bloody pissed off that people can justify being such consumers of Kul-ture and products, and ignore everything and everyone beyond their own fence. Like it or not, we’re all interconnected and if each one of us doesn’t honour our neighbours and Earth, we all lose. We are with whom the buck stops.