Getting ahead in carbon marketing
A Queensland family-owned red meat business says moves to reduce its environmental footprint will help it stay in front of consumer expectations. The Freestone Group, which includes a distribution business, cattle and sheep feedlot and a piggery, says it hopes to be carbon neutral in five…
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Popularity: 17% [?]
2020 - A time for conversation…
The Green Building Council of Australia’s Chief Executive, Romilly Madew, has returned from the 2020 Summit and shares her thoughts.
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Popularity: 13% [?]
Going Carbon Neutral - The 2020 Challenge
Highlighted as a target during the 2020 Summit, ‘carbon neutral’ buildings are considered the future. The Green Building Council takes a look at what a carbon neutral building is and how it can be achieved.
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Popularity: 18% [?]
Australia: Carbon price ‘to cost poor $1000pa’
AAP: THE introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in two years could cost poor households up to $1300 a year, mainly through higher fuel costs, a report says. The research released today by the Brotherhood of St Laurence found a price on carbon would add an average $938 [...]
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Australia: Extreme weather is here to stay
Sydney Morning Herald: SOMETHING strange is happening to our weather. Sydney has endured the most sodden school holidays in living memory, including the longest unbroken spell of April drizzle for 77 years, a month after some state capitals sweated through the worst continuous period of baking heat ever recorded. [...]
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Australia: Coalition calls for ’solar continent’
Australian: AUSTRALIA must invest far more heavily in solar power, including it as a mainstream energy source in the national grid, Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt has said. In a speech to be delivered to a climate change conference today, Mr Hunt will spell out the Coalition’s vision for a [...]
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Cars now no more efficient than ’60s
Sydney Morning Herald: CARS are no more fuel-efficient today than they were in the 1960s, a transport expert says. In research for the Garnaut climate change review, Paul Mees, of Melbourne University, has used Bureau of Statistics figures to show fuel efficiency has remained practically unchanged since 1963. The [...]
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Australia: Ban new freeways: transport
Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIA must halt construction of freeways if drastic cuts in emissions from vehicles are to be achieved, a submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review has said. The Public Transport Users Association has backed its recommendation with a document showing that expansion of freeways does nothing to alleviate [...]
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Australia’s Antarctic bonanza queried
NEWS ANALYSIS: Australia has become the first country to be granted exclusive property rights in Antarctica, say experts, raising questions about how bioprospecting will be managed in this sensitive and disputed territory.
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Popularity: 8% [?]
Global warming ‘rescue’ plan may backfire
A proposal to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into the stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers say.
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Popularity: 16% [?]