The environment: a time to choose our future
To anyone with even a modest understanding of humanity's place in nature and our absolute dependence on the natural world, the response of governments and institutions to the massive environmental changes the world is...
Market Needed to Drive New Technology
Anthony Albanese says that avoiding dangerous climate change requires urgent action. Any delay is the equivalent of a footy coach directing their team not to tackle until after halftime. Trapped in the short-term thinking...
A Crude Diet Might Lead to Gas
Noel Child believes beating the crude oil habit may well require ‘cold turkey’ therapy of an immediate and substantial shift to alternative fuels and technologies
The debate about matters nuclear
Dr John Morris introduces a Nuclear Options Paper commissioned by former NSW Minster for Infrastructure and Planning Craig Knowles. The paper seeks to provide an informed contribution to the contemporary debate about nuclear power...
Sharing the wheels, caring for the globe
Kevin Childs Examines car sharing, which saves between $3000 and $9000 a year, with members spending between $600 and $1800 each, annually. And compares this with the average private car, which spends most of...
Quick Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions is Possible, and Urgent
Geoff Davies argues that one reason you don’t hear the opportunities for energy efficiency being advocated by mainstream economists is apparently that they are generally very ignorant of such practicalities (as well as of...
Weather events and other opportunities
Martin Callinan Record breaking weather events and the Kyoto Protocol. The two events may be unrelated but they speak volumes about the same issue. An issue the Howard Government sees no need to take...