From this Issue
Water solutions adapted for climate changeThe Water Transformed online education package demonstrates how Australia is leading in many aspects of water management, as well as how, across a number of sectors, companies and organisations are achieving significant savings – of both water and money. Cheryl Desha, Charlie Hargroves and Mike Smith
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Desert knowledge: key to surviving the 21st centuryKnowledge about the way life operates in the extreme conditions of Australia’s vast deserts can be applied to a future of new unprecedented constraints.
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News
Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards closing soon
Victorians who have acted to significantly reduce their environmental impact are being invited to enter the 2010 Premier’s Sustainability Awards.
Anglers urged to share tales of longtail tuna
A website enabling recreational anglers to log their catches of longtail tuna has been developed by scientists from CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans Flagship. The information will help in the scientific assessment of Australia’s longtail tuna population.
From the Archive
Floating laboratory
Designed specifically for deep-ocean research around the Australian coast, Australia's most sophisticated research vessel, the Oceanographic Research Vessel 'Franklin' was launched in October, 1984 and, following fitting out and acceptance trials, has now begun work.
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Flagships: the Admiral's view
Australia has a deep need for sustainable growth and wealth generation. To tackle these challenges, CSIRO has launched the National Research Flagships. The Flagship Research Programs are: Preventative Health, Wealth from the Oceans, Healthy Australia, Agrifood Top 5, Leading the Light Metals Age, and Energy Transformed.
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Forthcoming Events
Estimating Sea Levels in an Uncertain Future
Canberra and Melbourne, February & April 2010 - see website
http://www.sealevelrise.info/cms/Home
Sustainable Living Festival
Melbourne, 6-21 February 2010
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Dry Times
Deserts can teach us new ways to live, manage scarce resources, cope with a harsh climate, isolation and a lack of water and energy.
