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UniCab submits proposal to NYC Taxi of Tomorrow search

Last week UniCab, another division of the company behind our founders – Universal Design Company (UNICO) – unveiled its website www.thetaxioftomorrow.com created to accompany its submission to the NYC Taxis and Limousine Commission. NYC is looking to upgrade its taxi fleet with vehicles meeting the following requirements: * Meets highest safety standards * Superior passenger […]

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Adelaide Green Car Plant gains grassroots support.

This is a Press Release I sent out today on our proposal for a green car plant in Adelaide. * * * * Proponents of a new Australian Green Car Plant utilise email and cyber networking to garner support to ‘fast track’ project. The American automotive industry crisis, as illustrated by Anne Davies [link], whilst […]

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The Third Wave by Tim Flannery

As I write, in mid March, a geriatric sandy-coloured rat wanders his enclosure at the Alice Springs Desert Park. Death can’t be far off for the poor creature, which would hardly matter except that, as far as anybody knows, he’s the last central rock-rat on Earth. The species once abounded in the rocky ranges of […]

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The big picture

Aurora Australis aspires to aid the formation of a global charter. That is, of assisting the people of the earth to become strong & united, that individuals increase their capacity to influence & determine issues critical to our survival & future well being. As witnessed by the growing acceptance in the human consciousness of the […]

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A Big Fix

A Big Fix Radical solutions for Australia’s environmental crisis The warnings from scientists are urgent and unequivocal – our civilisation is unwittingly stepping in front of an ecological lorry that is about to flatten us. We are using resources future generations will need, damaging environmental systems and compromising social stability by increasing the gap between […]

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It's all over <a href="http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24961169-5006009,00.html">the news</a> during the heatwave:<br /><br /> 

AIR ambulance helicopter crews are collapsing with heat exhaustion on rescue flights because temperatures in the non-air-conditioned cabins sometimes hit 50C.<br /><br />

Leaving aside the politics of how these helicopters came to be ordered without air conditioning units in the first place, what is needed is a quick, reliable solution.  And what do you know?  An Australian manufacturer has an existing product

Kool (green) Ideas for air ambulance crisis?

It’s all over the news during the heatwave: AIR ambulance helicopter crews are collapsing with heat exhaustion on rescue flights because temperatures in the non-air-conditioned cabins sometimes hit 50C. Leaving aside the politics of how these helicopters came to be ordered without air conditioning units in the first place, what is needed is a quick, […]

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A powerful new vision for confronting climate change

An inspiring article from Gristmill, regarding a recently unveiled “Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security,” drawn up by the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture. The main points of the manifesto: Industrial globalized agriculture contributes to and is vulnerable to climate change Ecological and organic farming contributes to […]

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Food for thought

From the Sydney Morning Herald: Future Farms Over Our Heads AUSTRALIAN cities must join a global network in which urban farmers grow produce on rooftops, a leading science commentator says. Professor Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine, said the global food crisis was a forewarning of what could be expected as civilisation ran low […]

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