Copenhagen. Copenhagen. Copenhagen. Say what you will about national leaders dropping the ball, Copenhagen relaunched the global movement to fight climate change.
Tens of thousands of people marched, millions participated via a remarkably present media, and thousands...
Climate Change – Australian Conservation Foundation calls for rapid investment to protect biodiversity.
The Federal Government should commit to a national Biodiversity and Climate Change Fund to help deal with the impacts of climate change and halt the massive declin...
Soon, the water in Gijon, a harbor in Northern Spain will be monitored by robotic, battery-powered fish. These mechanical, articulating sea creatures were designed and tested by the Robotics Department at the University of Essex. At a cost of $3.6 million, through a Eur...
On 15 December the Australian Government announced one of the largest and most important structural reforms to our economy in a generation, the introduction of a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
The Prime Minister's website introduced the scheme with this preamble:...
Date: 23-Aug-2007
The Australian Conservation Foundation has welcomed the Prime Minister’s acknowledgement that many Australians have deep concerns about Federal plans for nuclear reactors and high level radioactive waste production in Australia.
Prime Minister John H...
The growing awareness of the planet’s environmental crisis has sparked a ‘green gold rush’, which has seen a dramatic expansion in the number of businesses offering both companies and individuals the chance to go ‘carbon neutral’ - offsetting their own energy use by buy...
There is no shortage of stats on how much better organic produce is for the body. It follows that 'no chemicals' would also be better for the land. But scientific evidence is mounting that organic farming is often better for the climate as well.
Many of you will have seen the latest advertising campaign by the Westpac Bank telling us that 'every generation should live better than the last' and promoting the fact that they were Australia’s first bank to adopt the Equator Principles.
California in the US began installing windmills in 1980, and they now generate over 1000 megawatts, the equivalent of one nuclear power plant (and they were built much more quickly than a nuclear power plant could be).
One piece of good news is that whales have made a comeback. According to Science magazine roughly 3400 Humpback whales can be counted around Hawaii now, as opposed to only 1400 ten years ago.