We regularly share our thoughts and tips on creating a truly sustainable business on our blog.
World Animal Day
World Animal Day is a global event celebrated each year on the 4th of October. The mission of this social movement is to raise the status of animals and improve welfare standards across the globe. All living creatures, as sentient beings, deserve a high standard of...
Noise Safety at Work and Home
Noise is often the silent hazard; a hazard that affects many Australians. Exposure to prolonged high levels of noise, or loud impact or explosive sounds, can lead to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) (Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety 2019) and other...
Remote sensing as a technology to monitor rehabilitation performance in mining
In support of the recent International Mine Closure Workshop, we thought we would explore how remote sensing can aid Mine Closure and Rehabilitation activities. Remote sensing technology has improved the capability of acquiring information about the earth and its...
Biodiversity Month
What is Biodiversity? Biodiversity is often characterised as ‘the web of life’; it encompasses all living things and their ecosystems (Department of the Environment and Energy, 2019). Biodiversity seek to protect the genetic diversity within a species, species...
National Bilby Day – Join the Fight Against Extinction
Each year Australia celebrates National Bilby Day on the second Sunday of September. Bilbies are a significant part of Aboriginal culture featuring in traditional songs and stories of Indigenous Australians (Pavey 2006). For 60,000 years, bilbies inhabited more than...
Aquatic GIS Applications
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a tool for making and using spatial information from a diverse array of sources. GIS can be used for the visualisation of data, helping to analyse spatial relationships and interactions and assist in problem-solving and...
Sitting vs Standing – The effects of sedentary behaviour
What is sedentary behaviour? Worksafe Australia defines sedentary behaviour as anything that is done whilst sitting or reclining. As workers, this can include anything from computer-based tasks, truck driving, crane operating or any general work where you are sitting...
Biodiversity Corridors – The role that they play in a fragmented landscape
The term ‘Biodiversity Corridor’ is used to describe areas of vegetation which allow animals to travel from one patch of bush to another (ForestrySA, 2003). Biodiversity corridors can be both natural or man-made and can function at either a local or regional scale....
Australia’s hidden agricultural legacy
Australia’s unique environment, isolation and the integral role the land has in Aboriginal culture resulted in the creation of unique agricultural practices. This insight touches on a few of these practices.
Monitoring and Recovery of Western Australia’s Threatened Plants
Western Australia is characterised by three distinct Botanical Provinces (Northern, Eremaean and South‐West) each divided into a number of Botanical Districts (Beard, 2000). The Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is a biodiversity hotspot with over 7300 native vascular plant species; almost half of which can only be found in this area (Hopper, 2004).