'Farming in Brunswick' sounds like the title to an arthouse indy flick, but a group of inner-city slickers-turned-farmers have brought farming to the city.

Inspired by the community garden "Lucious Lane", Pip Ross and a friend conceived of a community garden in Pip's Brunswick backyard in inner Melbourne. Last July, that vision became "The Farm".

Avaaz are running an on-line petition in the lead up to the United Nations Emergency summit on the current food crisis.

Right now, I'm looking at putting some fruiting trees in my backyard because I think it just makes so much sense to grow your own food. You combat climate change by minimizing emissions associated with the commercial production and transprort of food, you control what chemicals you expose your food to, and in light of recent food price increases, you'll save money. (Watching things grow also gives me a gooshy feeling on the inside, but maybe that's just me.)

In the spirit of recycling, rehashing and rebirth, Melbourne designers Material By Product are offering you a chance to revamp your old T shirts by giving them a designer makeover!

From next March the coffee you purchase from Mc Donalds restaurants will be sourced from certified South American plantations with the highest environmental standards. The coffees will bear the green frog of The Rainforest Alliance, whose mission is to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

Talk about band-wagoners! Spammers are giving the Nigerian petrochemical companies the flick in preference for a "greener" strain of fraud.

Are you totally over chocolate drives? Would you rather that your schools, kinders and community groups choose fundraisers that support positive lifestyles and sustainable habits (rather than child slavery)? Here's a great way to raise funds and curb climate change at the same time ...

Wolves dressing as green sheep?

Ooopsies! A new lobbying firm acting on behalf of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, an "environmental" group opposing a wind farm off Cape Cod, let it slip that an international energy conglomerate is actually paying for their work!

Avaaz and Australia's own Get Up are running campaigns to call for a ban on cluster bombs - weapons that can cause injury to innocent civilians, particularly children. Australia is one of the most vocal opponents of a strong ban, so we need to tell the Government that weapons of war that kill or maim kids need to be outlawed - no exceptions.

We thought Kingston's own Marvellous Mums deserve a plug (ha ha) here on EarthMums because, in an effort to address climate change, they are changing to energy efficient lightbulbs with the live green with LESS program.