Beach medicine – so good for you!
A stroll along the beach at sunrise can make your day. So its no surprise that many people want to keep it that way…. just cos! There’s growing evidence of the health benefits of spending time with nature. The Healthy Parks Healthy People International Congress 2010 (in Melbourne, mid April) is planned and delivered by [...]
Carmel Wallace: marine messenger
Artists like Carmel Wallace are rarer than a message in a bottle on the shoreline! Port Phillip EcoCentre was honoured to host Carmel as Artist-in-Residence in July 2008. In just 4 weeks she collected an extraordinary array of litter from beaches in the Bay and the Yarra Bank below Westgate Bridge; and assembled them into [...]
Cigarette butts bad news for the Bay
Cigarettes have been marketed as glamorous for the girls and macho for blokes…. anyone happy to set something in their mouth on fire has got to be a ‘cool and can-do’ type! Unfortunately, due to choices many of these people make, hundreds of thousands of cigarette butts enter the Bay each year via stormwater drains; [...]
