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First they enriched us with Donald Duck. Now the Americans are bringing to the world their very own… Donald Dumb and his backroom club of fossil fools. It may turn out to be better news that it seemed at first. American president Donald Trump’s own goal is not only that
What does it take to unite politicians of all parties in a parliament to start working on finding real climate solutions? Ask New Zealand, because they have done it. While the Australian parliament has turned into a coal-clown circus of lies, denial and rising emissions, New Zealand – as the
“[Offshore wind energy] has dropped 70 per cent in two years! The International Energy Agency thought that might have happened by 2030, 2040… It’s happened today. And that’s technology for you. That’s finance for you. That’s game over. But the coal industry doesn’t want to accept that reality and move
Some January 2017 notes with links and contemplations as we enter a new year and are confronted with governments’ increasingly absurd lack of response to the dangerous climate change disruption – the Great Turning, collapse, catastrophe, apocalypse or whatever you want to call it – which temperature graphs and science reports
Joe Romm writes: “Only very aggressive cuts in carbon pollution could plausibly save our major coastal cities and avoid a trillion-dollar housing bubble crash. And only the unanimous Paris pledge of ever deeper CO2 cuts by the nations of the world can save the America’s breadbaskets in California and the
[CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT] is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity”
“The approach to climate and ecosystem protection campaigning that has been used for the last 40 years is out of date. We cannot keep accusing the Coalition parties and Labor of climate and environmental hypocrisy, when our own demands and policies bear no practical relationship to what we say we care
Our optimistic and knowledgeable guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 18 May 2016 are engagement manager Adam Majcher and head of implementation Scott Ferraro from ClimateWorks. We also play a short statement by the owner of the world’s first off-grid solar-powered industrial factory, Chugg Boggs from
Jackray Black wrote on 29 March 2016: Last night in the middle of the night I woke and couldn’t go back to sleep, ruminating on the low point we witnessed last night on ABC Television. Greg Hunt, in response to losing 1/4 of the Great Barrier Reef to a massive
“Tell everyone we have a plan” UN Global Goals advertisement Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 92: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here (Mac: CTRL + click) » Subscribe to ‘The Sustainable Hour’ podcast — via iTunes or via your own podcast/RSS software G21 Stakeholder