At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a "safe operating space" for human beings. That is the conclusion of a new paper published in the journal Science by 18 researchers trying…
Happy New Year from WithOneBean! We have some very exciting projects in the pipeline for 2015 which we are working on and looking forward to bringing to the streets of Melbourne. Up first is our delicious new Cold Filter Coffee…
In the past week we’ve seen bushfires consume huge stretches of land in South Australia and Victoria. 19 communities totalling thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes around Adelaide, more than 2,000 firefighters were called upon to battle…
"If you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax?" (Tony Abbott 2009). The graph shows the national electricity market – Annualised carbon emissions. The red line marks when the carbon tax…
WOW: Catholic bishops from around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuel use and increased efforts to secure a global climate treaty! Speaking about the announcement, Monsignor Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón, Archbishop of Ayacucho, and president of the…
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of more extreme hot weather. In fact, if you are under the age of 37 you've never experienced a year of below average temperature. Over the past 100 years, heatwaves have caused more deaths…
Today the East Timorese MTGs arrived in the 'bus' for lessons in an outdoor classroom set up at one of the WithOneSeed nurseries. Mike ran a session around seed propagation, we had lots of discussion about the need to control…
WithOneSeed today held it's main local stakeholder consultation in Baguia, Timor Leste to discuss International Carbon Certification with subsistence farmers who are managing over 40,000 mahogany trees in their farms. We have consulted with over 200 farmers over the past…
US president Barack Obama has formally announced a $US3 billion contribution to an international fund to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change. He outlined his pledge to the UN Green Climate Fund while speaking to university…
Today WithOneSeed and the Australian Agroforestry Foundation launched the Master Tree Growers Course in Baguia, Timor Leste. Subsistence farmers are undertaking a 5 day tree management program aimed at replanting the forests of Timor Leste and building local village economies.…
