TreehuggerTourists prepared to pay for eco-friendly holidays
A report has found most Australian consumers support ‘green tourism’. The Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre rated people’s attitudes towards the environment and how it affected their holiday…
Farmers talk tough on emissions trading scheme
Farmers say an emissions trading scheme would reduce Australia’s competitiveness on world markets.
Bright ideas sought to take heat out of sloar
CALLING all solar enthusiasts in Lismore. Lismore men Gordon Fraser-Quick and Laurie Axtens want your help to find a way to get a mass roll-out of solar power around…
Solar milestone
WEST END, July 3: A West End-based solar- panel buying group has notched up 100 residential installations, making it the most successful of its kind in…
Households to pay higher energy costs, warns business chief
“We won’t foot the bill.” That is the blunt message from big business the day before Professor Ross Garnaut delivers his long-awaited report on the impact of an emissions trading scheme.
THE gas transmission industry has urged climate change policy advisor Professor Ross Garnaut to ensure that any mandatory renewable energy target would be phased out with the introduction of an emissions trading scheme.
THE gas transmission industry has urged climate change policy advisor Professor Ross Garnaut to ensure that any mandatory renewable energy target would be phased out with the introduction of an emissions trading…
Visy seeks credits under emissions trading scheme
Recycling and packaging company Visy is pressuring the Federal Government to give it carbon credits, should certain policy be adopted into an emissions trading scheme.
Solar power refund for green households
SOUTH Australia’s solar scheme, which pays people double the going rate for solar power they feed back into the electricity grid, comes into effect…
Rudd tempts Toyota - now for GM
THE Federal Government hopes to entice General Motors to make environmentally friendly cars in Australia following its $35 million deal for Toyota to produce a hybrid Camry at its Melbourne…
Business unprepared for emission trading scheme: survey
A survey has found top level executives are unprepared for the introduction of the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme.