Category: enviroment

I Googled Wind Resource Evaluation and Fell Down the Rabbit Hole It started like most things nowadays with a Google search and a cup of instant coffee that tasted suspiciously like regret. I typed Wind Resource Evaluation into...

  CONFUSION remains over the future of 100 large trees on the former Brandon Park Secondary College site, where buildings including a basketball stadium are due for demolition starting this week. Monash Council had tried to...

A TWO-THIRDS cut in household greenhouse gas emissions would still not achieve Federal Government carbon targets because the population is growing too fast, a study into immigration policy and climate change contends. By 2050,...

RESIDENTS and commuters are calling for urgent action on public transport in Monash ahead of the Eastern Transport Coalition summit next week. The summit, hosted by seven eastern metropolitan councils, including Monash, has...

THE number of young people seeking help for alcohol abuse in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs has more than quadrupled in five years. The Youth Substance Abuse Service in Box Hill, which helps people aged 12-21 in Monash and...

MULGRAVE should not be cut in two by Mirvac’s residential development at the former Waverley Park Football Ground, residents have said again. Mirvac applied to State Planning Minister Mary Delahunty to rename its...

A PSYCHOLOGY centre operated by Monash University’s School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, has opened in Clayton. It offers assessment, treatment and consultation in child and family psychology,...

GLEN Waverley’s police Embona Taskforce was commended last Thursday for excellent results in fighting crime. Region 4 Assistant Commissioner Kieran Walshe, presented commendation awards to the officers at Manningham...

CAMELOT Rise Primary School children have worked hard to create a Wakakirri story and dance performance that reflected the unique identity of the school. Their hard work paid off when the school, in Galahad Crescent, Glen...

MORE money is spent on electronic gaming machines (EGMs) in Monash than any other metropolitan local government precinct in Victoria, despite a 10 percent drop in spending over the past year. About $121million was spent at...

THE Monash Science Centre in Clayton is running a series of lectures and family nights as part of National Science Week. Family science night tomorrow (Tuesday), 7-8.30pm. Freshwater chemistry – find out if water is...

“YOU never know the truth,” Monash University expert on propaganda Millicent Vladiv-Glover said about war. Dr. Vladiv-Glover, from the Clayton campus’ school of languages, culture, and linguistics, talked to...