Tag: Better Cities
The surprising history of how electric vehicles have played the long game and won
Image: An electric cab drives past the White House in Washington DC in 1905. Wikimedia Commons
Electric vehicles, we are often told, are the future. A...
‘We’ve all done the right things’: in Under Cover, older women tell their stories of becoming homeless
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The Australian documentary Under Cover, premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival, presents the voices and faces of older women’s housing insecurity....
1 in 4 Australians is lonely. Quality green spaces in our cities offer a solution
Image: Photo by Xiaoqi Feng, Author provided
One in four Australian adults feel lonely, and the impacts can be dire. Loneliness increases our risks of depression, diabetes, dementia, self-harm and suicide. But likening it...
Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs, research finds
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There’s nothing like the fresh eggs from your own hens, the more than 400,000 Australians who keep backyard chooks will tell you. Unfortunately, it’s often...