APEC leaders Sydney declaration on climate change, energy security and clean development is available on http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=96945
Why is this declaration released as a separate document to the Fifteenth APEC Economic Leaders Meeting report ??

APEC: Sydney, Australia Report..go to
Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development
4. We addressed the challenges of climate change, energy security and clean development. Our resolve on this issue is outlined in a separate statement issued at this meeting.

The Not So Humble Cocoa Beans. Or to put it in other words SLAVE TAINTED CHOCOLATE: It is estimated more than 100,000 children work in the Ivory Coast's cocoa industry under "the worst forms of child labor," and that about 10,000 are slaves. Available http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/03/1193619205911.html
Reverend Tim Costello is sounding the alarm bells. I cannot find his TV news report on the internet. What kind of world are we creating ??

JOURNAL ENTRY 3
Towards Zero Waste Strategy
http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/Byteback_270208.doc
I found this information on the Sustainability Victoria site: Byteback; a service that will salvage glass and metal parts in computers. BYTEBACK is a free service to householders. I understand this process to be sustainability covenants but do the householders know of this new policy by the Brumby Gov ?? Did we get a media release of this fact ??

The first media release "Towards Zero Waste Reduction"was in 2005
http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/domino/Web_Notes/newmedia.nsf/955cbeae7df9460dca256c8c00152d2b/17af66a423fe7659ca257073000564aa!OpenDocument (a) Phasing out of plastic bags by all retailers by 2008 and increase recycling of product packaging to 65 per cent by 2010 (b) Keep Australia Beautiful, Clean site program, $211,000;

I thought that I really disliked Marxism but this is the best quote ever for sustainability http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/735/38045
Quote from Karl Marx.. "Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together”, Marx stated, “are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations as boni patres familias [good heads of the household].”

julie's analysis : One end result of Economic Globalisation is enormous waste landfill sites. End cycle sustainability is now incorporated in all Victorian State and local council strategic planning. Functionalism tells us that we need to keep looking at the cycle of value consensus, equilibrium and homeostasis (the actions we take to return to the state of equilibrium).

I like that fact that reusing computer elements works in a contradictory manner to capitalism and globalisation. I understand that reusing the glass and metal components promotes the marxism theory of owning the means of capital, by reclaiming the elements to future production. I cannot find a media release on the new initiate BYTEBACK, free to householders.
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