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 [...]
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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 »
Peeling Prawns
Posted in Consumption, tagged Dissent, Food, Worldwide on 14 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
Michael likes eating prawns and I used to buy a packet of frozen peeled prawns for him. When I started looking at where our food came from, I discovered these prawns were from Thailand. I suggested fresh Australian prawns instead. Michael tried them, but didn’t like having to peel them himself. I jokingly said peeled [...]
Another Political Event Couldn’t…
Posted in Australia, Sydney, books, tagged Australian Conservation Foundation, Dissent, Energy, government, nuclear power, Worldwide on 17 September 2007 | 4 Comments »
…achieve anything useful.
Over the weekend of 8-9 September I was in Sydney for my cousin’s wedding. It was a beautiful wedding, but I won’t bore you with that. That weekend also happened to be when the 2007 APEC meeting was held in Sydney and the powers that be of Sydney were in lock [...]
How far did dinner travel?
Posted in Australia, Perth, tagged Animals, carbon emissions, Dissent, Family, Garden, greenhouse effect, Perth, sustainable living, Worldwide on 2 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Eating locally produced food is important and I try to, but don’t always eat as locally as I’d like. Emerging Tar Heel Leaders discussed eating locally after The New York Times featured an article the other week. A comment to his blog post mentions the Slow Food movement that’s been going since 1989.
Slow Food is [...]
Kyoto in 2010
Posted in Australia, tagged carbon emissions, carbon neutral, climate change, Dissent, Energy, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, nuclear power, renewable energy, solar power, wind power, Worldwide on 15 April 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Australian Greenhouse Office of the Federal government projects Australia’s greenhouse emissions trends. Tracking to the Kyoto Target was released last year just before Christmas (so no one would notice it). Even though Australia never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, a government department has still found Australia will not meet its Kyoto target of 108 per [...]
The Saga of the Showerhead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dissent, Energy, Family, House, saving water, solar power, Water on 21 March 2007 | 4 Comments »
The Western Australian Dept of Water Waterwise Rebate website says,
a water-efficient showerhead can save up to 3,300 litres of water per person, per year.
The Sustainable Living website of the Western Australian government says,
approximately 42% of our total domestic water usage is used inside the home.
Although this is brought into perspective by Geoff Russell in an [...]
Is there change in the air?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged carbon emissions, climate change, Dissent, Energy, government, greenhouse effect, libraries, mass media, sustainable living, Worldwide on 8 March 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’m currently replacing my incandescent globes with energy efficient light bulbs. I’ve known about energy efficient light bulbs for a number of years, but never got around to doing anything about it. Last year my uncle was talking about them and after hearing him wax lyrical, I thought I’d better pull my finger out. He [...]
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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