Taegen Edwards on Post Carbon Pathways | BayFM Spin Cycle
Taegen Edwards speaks to BayFM’s Karin Kolbe on the recently published report Post Carbon Pathways: Reviewing post carbon economy transition strategies. Edwards outlines the key government policies and non-government projects from across the globe that...
John Menadue & Greg Dodds | Deja vu as Australia returns from smoko for Asian century
Despite appearances, Australia’s relationship with its trading bloc remains superficial, making little progress in 20 years of ”discussions”. In the mid-’90s we went on smoko, even as we continued to dig up more of...
Dr Gunter Pauli & Ian Dunlop | Local Brainpower Can Save Manufacturing Jobs and the Environment
Dr Gunter Pauli and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop illustrate how Australia can stop sacrificing local manufacturing jobs for cheap overseas labour by looking at local innovation. Pauli and Dunlop examine the ways in which...
Green Economy – Green Skills Symposium, 13 April 2012
The EU Centre at RMIT in partnership with the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) and TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) supported by the RMIT Sustainability Committee presents ‘Green Economy – Green Skills’. A...
Sustainable Business Australia | Should Australia Embrace the Blue Economy? 3 April 2012
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to hear one of today’s great advocates of a clean, sustainable, and ‘blue’ economic future. Dr Gunter Pauli, founder of the “Zero Emissions Research and Initiative”, will speak on Australia’s...
Fiona Armstrong | How Climate Change Gets Lost in Translation
CPD fellow Fiona Armstrong poses the question of why climate change denialists deny? Communications research is suggesting that a person’s political ideology has a large bearing on whether they choose to believe climate science...
Ben Eltham | A Kinder, Gentler Mining Tax
Julia Gillard might not be popular but she’s a very effective legislator. The mining tax might have been watered down, but passing it last night was a big score, writes Ben Eltham. It’s a...
Chris Bonnor | Here Comes Another 2020 Vision
CPD fellow Chris Bonnor gives us a look at his crystal ball on Australia’s education system in 2020, and it’s not all that promising. The Gonski Report delivered to us the reality that our...
ACU Voice | Refugees: Human Rights and Our Ethical Obligations, 29 March, Sydney
There are more than 5,700 asylum seekers and refugees in immigration detention centres across Australia. More than two-thirds have been in detention for at least six months, and 97 people have been held for...
Dr Gunter Pauli | Progress on The Blue Economy, New Economics and Learning for Sustainability
CPD and Sydney Ideas co-present Dr Gunter Pauli at the law school foyer Sydney Uni. April 3rd, 6pm to 7.30pm – this is a free event and open to all, entry will be on...