What does the future hold for the Swan River?
The Auditor General of Western Australia (WA) released a report last month on the health of the Swan-Canning river system. For those of you not lucky enough to have visited […]
The Auditor General of Western Australia (WA) released a report last month on the health of the Swan-Canning river system. For those of you not lucky enough to have visited […]
Have you ever thought about getting around to installing those solar panels, rainwater tank, planting a vegie patch in your backyard or a native shrubbery in your verge? Well here is […]
The cliché that we depend on our mother earth to give us good soils in which to grow food, water to drink, clean air to breathe and oceans to provide us […]
IS drip irrigation REALLY worthwhile to keep our personal patches of green alive and healthy? WELL. In theory, yes. In practical terms…………..it depends. The concept of drip irrigation is rather simple […]
The 2014-2015 budget was released by the Australian Government two weeks ago and confirmed what has recently been suspected: the National Water Commission will be no longer. According to the Federal Government’s […]
If you grew up in Perth like most of us in the office have, then you’ll have grown up assuming that the way to build a house is to use bricks. […]
Well the first chocolates have been consumed in the office this afternoon (after numerous hot cross buns were destroyed earlier this morning) in lieu of the upcoming Easter holiday most of the […]
Essential Environmental is currently gearing up for a new series of coastal projects based in the Shire of Northampton and closer to home, in the coastal node of Alkimos in the […]
The Urban Heat Island effect was first described over a century ago as a phenomenon where air temperatures in densely built urban areas were higher than temperatures in surrounding rural areas. It […]
Lester R. Brown, a United States environmental analyst and founder of Worldwatch Institute has recently written an article published in The Guardian proposing that ‘peak water’ is the major threat […]