The whole point of introducing an emissions trading scheme is to make sure that polluting industries phase out and are replaced with cleaner alternatives, renewable energy and energy efficiency programmes. [1]
While the Australian Federal opposition dithers on passing the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) legislation which would enable carbon trading, Australia’s weather gets hotter and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
CPRS: Carbon Politics Renders Squat
Posted in Energy, tagged Australia, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, coal, CPRS, Dissent, emissions trading scheme, fossil fuel dependence, government, green wash, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, Weather on 6 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Government Visions
Posted in Energy, tagged Australia, carbon emissions, climate change, coal, fossil fuel dependence, government, green wash, greenhouse gas emissions on 12 July 2009 | 4 Comments »
I just read Quarry Vision by Guy Pearse. I’m a bit slow because it’s no longer the most recent issue of Quarterly Essay. When it came out I wasn’t sure if I wanted to read it. I assumed it was more of Pearse’s results from his PhD thesis on Australia’s greenhouse mafia, otherwise known [...]
How many is too many?
Posted in Worldwide, tagged Australia, Australian Conservation Foundation, climate change, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas emissions, Oxfam, Population on 21 August 2008 | 6 Comments »
We know that babies add more to global warming than anything else in our home. Isn’t it time to cut back? [1]
Many people don’t like talking about our ever increasing human population, more than 6 billion, and likely to be 9 billion by 2050 [2]. For some, population policies bring to mind the human [...]
What the world needs now is a Revolution
Posted in Energy, tagged book review, books, climate change, Greenpeace, renewable energy, sustainable living on 8 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m trying to only blog on the weekend (so I will actually write my thesis) but today is such an auspicious date, so I had to post before the weekend.
All balance is being destroyed. The Gulf Stream is dying and climate change will spread deserts over the face of the Earth. In just fifty years [...]
Learning about Climate Change
Posted in School, tagged Australia, climate change, greenhouse effect, The Australia Institute, Worldwide on 16 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Australia Institute, with funding from Australian Ethical Investment, put together a series of teaching materials on climate change for high school teachers of Year 9 and 10. High school teachers and university academics were consulted in compiling the nine modules.
Teaching climate change cuts across a number of different school subjects, including Science, Society [...]
Kyoto ratified
Posted in Australia, tagged Australian Conservation Foundation, carbon emissions, climate change, Energy, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, Politics on 4 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
Australia’s newly elected government has ratified the Kyoto Protocol [1], as the next stage is discussed in Bali, where the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened yesterday. [2]
Australia will now enjoy full participation in negotiations for a post-Kyoto treaty to fight global warming. [3]
ACF has previously said ratification will:
strengthen Australia’s ability to urge China and [...]
Government tall tales
Posted in Australia, Perth, tagged carbon emissions, climate change, government, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas emissions, Perth, Politics on 9 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
Australia is holding a federal election on 24 November 2007. In the past I haven’t voted, but I live in the marginal seat of Stirling and my uncle told me that if I didn’t vote I would be solely responsible for the Howard government staying in power. Perhaps I’ll have to change my anarchistic ways. [...]
Singing Down the Earth
Posted in Australia, tagged Australian Conservation Foundation, carbon emissions, climate change, sustainable living on 26 October 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Australian Conservation Foundation has developed Who On Earth Cares, an online community where you can share what you’re doing to reduce your carbon emissions and find out who else in your area is doing the same. It was launched by Cate Blanchett, but I was more interested to hear that Felix Riebl from [...]
The Evil Consumptive
Posted in Australia, Consumption, Perth, tagged Australian Conservation Foundation, carbon emissions, climate change, fossil fuel dependence, Perth, sustainable living on 27 September 2007 | 5 Comments »
I have a bad habit of buying too much junk, which I really don’t need. These days I am a lot better at curbing this impulsive waste, but it takes a lot of will power.
When Michael and I first started going out, I found toy plastic bath boats at the shop and I felt [...]
Why aren’t there Big Solar Projects in Australia?
Posted in Australia, books, tagged carbon emissions, climate change, Energy, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, solar power on 19 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
Businesses developing renewable and energy efficient technologies search in vain for a sympathetic ear in Canberra. (p.66)
Matt from The Coffee House and Environment Solutions asked,
Are there not any big solar building projects going on in Oz?
My original answer to Matt was,
The University of NSW and Australian National University are internationally recognised in solar technology development, [...]
Think on this
"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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