Some issues for exploration:

• Paper recycling
  • school recycling - activities from Paper Industry Association Council
  • Paper - from How Products are Made
  • Making Handmade Paper in 10 Easy Steps - from Pioneer Thinking
  • Recycled paper: The Best choice - from Paper Listening Study, Conservatree
  
  
• Investigating paper profiles
  • Investigating paper profiles
  
  
• The Cotton Industry in Australia
  • Agriculture - Cotton Industry - Australia - from Australian Natural Resources Atlas
  • Why Harmony Art Organic Cotton? - comparison of organic and conventional cotton, from Harmony Art (pdf 105kB)
  • Cotton and Biotechnology - from Cotton Australia and Monsanto (pdf 557kB)
  • Environment - from Cotton Australia
  • Agriculture and Environment: Cotton - from World Wildlife Fund
  
  
• The Paper Industry, Wood Chipping and Forestry
  • WOOD-FREE PAPER - from Rainforest Information Centre
  • The History of Paper - from BPA Print Group
  • How is Paper Made? - from The Paper University
  • Paper - from How Products are Made
  • How Banana Paper is Made - from Ecopaper
  • Sustainable Forest Issues - from Paper Listening Study, Conservatree
  • Tree Free Paper - from Paper Listening Study, Conservatree
  
  
• Biofuel & Biomass
  • The biofuels promise: updated thinking - article in Ecos: Towards a sustainable future
    
  • Biomass - the growing energy resource - from NOVA, Australian Academy of Science
  • Biomass: Growing energy and smart ways with waste - from Origin Energy
  • Biofuels threaten 'billions of lives' - article in The Australian
  • Biofuel crops a 'crime against humanity' - article from The Age
  • Concerns grow over biofuel eco impact - from ABC news
  • Ethanol as a biofuel - immoral, costly and stupid - from Science Alert
  • The biofuel myths - Herald Tribune
  • Biofuels - from Journey to Forever
  • Biomass Energy Basics - from Learn About Renewable Energy, National Renewable energy Laboratory
  
  
• Natural Fibres - are they all good the environment
  • Is bamboo really an environmentally friendly alternative to wood for making paper?
  • TEXTILES AND THE ENVIRONMENT - from Instyle Contract Textiles (pdf 38kB)
  • Bamboo: Facts behind the Fiber - from Organic Clothing Blog
  • Bamboo Fiber Processing - from Bamboosa, Bamboo Manufactures
  • Bamboo Processing Considerations - from Green Cotton
  
  
• Natural Fibres: Making use of our indigenous plants
  • Aboriginal Use of Native plants - resource developed by UniServe Science - includes
    • Flax Lily or Dianella
    • Mat Rush or Lomandra
      
    • Cabbage Tree Palm or Livistona australis and Livistona eastonii
    • Pandanus
    • Gymea Lily or Flame Lily or Spear Lily Doryanthes excelsa
  • KAPOK TREE (Cochlospermum gillivraei) - from Society Growing Australian Plants, Queensland
  • Aboriginal Uses of Plants Around Sydney - from Australian Plants Online, ASGAP, see fibres and rope and string
  • Gynatrix pulchella - Hemp Bush - from Aussie Gardening