Most of Perth’s water comes from the Gnangara groundwater mound (aquifer), stretching from north of Perth to the Swan River, as far south as Fremantle.
The Gnangara Mound is an important source of water for public water supply, irrigated agriculture, parks and gardens, industry and groundwater dependent ecosystems. Groundwater levels across the Gnangara Mound have generally [...]
Posts Tagged ‘greenwash’
Perth’s shrinking Groundwater
Posted in Perth, tagged agriculture, government, greenwash, groundwater, industry, mining, Recycling, saving water, Water, water tank, Western Australia on 3 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
The solar powered what!?
Posted in Consumption, tagged apparel, fashion, greenwash, solar power on 15 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back when I had a full time job and I was “rolling in money” (a relative term) there were a number of things on which I regularly wasted my money. Of course they were all things I just couldn’t live without!
One of these things was lingerie. I’m not just talking underwear here. It had [...]
Desalination in Cockburn Sound
Posted in Perth, tagged government, greenwash, Water on 13 May 2008 | 4 Comments »
A month ago the Perth Seawater Desalination Plant in outer suburban Kwinana had to cut its production (from 130 million litres of drinking water a day to just over 21 million litres) for about a week because low levels of oxygen were measured in Cockburn Sound [1].
The saltwater outlet of the plant is located [...]
Cheap Coal for Sure (CCS)
Posted in Energy, tagged Australia, carbon emissions, fossil fuel dependence, government, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas emissions, greenwash, Indigenous Australians, mining on 25 April 2008 | 9 Comments »
I know I should try to write shorter posts, but once I get started, I can’t seem to stop. So make a cuppa before you start reading.
The New South Wales state government is about to privatise NSW’s electricity generation and the retail electricity market. Former Executive Director of The Australia Institute Clive Hamilton, investigated [...]
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"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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