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While Lismore City Council aims to go 100 per cent renewables in just ten years, the City of Greater Geelong Council has recently approved a draft budget with sustainability initiatives receiving little or no funding. “We need to have a mature discussion about what is happening to our environment,” wrote
In Geelong, the annual budget was adopted as a draft at a city council meeting on 13 April 2014. The new budget means cuts to the council’s sustainability initiative, Future Proofing Geelong. The federal government released the budget for the nation as a whole on the same day. The national
“Sustainability is actually an extreme right wing philosophy,” explains our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 7 May 2014: Tim Adams. Tim Adams is the principal of F2 Design. He is also the Immediate Past President of the Building Designers’ Association of Victoria, the creator of the BDAV’s ‘10 Star
In Adelaide, Australia’s fifth-largest city with 1.3 million residents, 51 artists submitted 66 different works for the fifth Solar Art Prize which offered a first prize of AUS$ 8,000 worth of solar panels, along with four minor prizes of AUS$ 5,000 each of solar vouchers. The winner of the $8,000
In The Sustainable Hour on 30 April 2014 we seek to understand the arguments in the power games which currently are taking place between the citizens and the regulators. To stand up for what is right you must first understand what is wrong. For instance, when you look at your
In Australia, one of the world’s first political parties based on a climate agenda has been founded and is heading for elections there with a bit of a mission on their shoulders. They promise their voters to save the planet. And that is even the name they have chosen for
“They will kill you, and your children. They think they will get away with it because they have got money. But money doesn’t isolate them from climate change and the death of the planet. These people are stupid, they are ignorant, and they are committing crimes against humanity.” Rod Quantock
What you see here are what I consider the two most important ‘mile-stone’ kind of climate news stories that came out of 6 August 2013. The photo of the dead polar bear speaks for itself — just like the photos from Ethiopia did when they first came up on the
Denmark has positioned itself among the first in Europe to offer comprehensive interdisciplinary graduate training in climate change. ‘Climate Change, Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation’ is the name of a new 2-year interdisciplinary MSc programme at Copenhagen University that combines both natural and social sciences. Instruction is in English, and there