activism/charity – Page 10 – Hoyden About Town

Endangered Sunday: BP = Brown Pelicans

By tigtog on 2010-07-04 • ( 1 )

Yet another threatened species put under even more threat from BP’s Mexican Gulf Oil Spill is the Brown Pelican, and BP is trying to sanitise the news you find online about the Gulf oil spill by sponsoring search term results

Team Hoyden for Dry July?

By tigtog on 2010-06-26 • ( 26 )

Dry July’s mission is to directly benefit adult cancer patients with real and tangible change.

Crowdsourcing: ideas for an anti-filter website

By tigtog on 2010-06-14 • ( 8 )

I love the new Filter Stephen Conroy site, and I’m keen to put up a similar site aimed at people who very much want their own family’s internet access to be filtered and who have bought into the idea that Conroy’s filter is going to be the easiest way to do it (and that it will work).

Quickhit: It’s going to Ruin us

By tigtog on 2010-06-04 • ( 6 )

The new Mining Tax – we’ve heard it all before

Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass

By tigtog on 2010-05-21

While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.

Quick Hit: In Which I am Impressed

By Beppie on 2010-05-09 • ( 22 )

I’ve long thought that the voting age in Australia should be lowered to 16 — I’ve believed this since I was 16 years old myself and had to content myself with handing out how-to-vote cards, because I was unable to… Read More ›

Friday Hoyden: Jane Goodall

By tigtog on 2010-04-16 • ( 6 )

But what Goodall discovered made biologists, psychologists and philosophers look more closely at the great apes and their similarities to humans, provoking redefinitions of exactly what it meant to be human, and raising the question of just how far back in pre-history should paleo-anthropologists be looking for clues to the development of human behaviours.