Solar power has potential, says GM exec
Solar power: coming to a road near you, eventually. A senior General Motors executive says Australia should invest in cleaner energy alternatives such as solar power as a way to reduce the nation’s dependence on…
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Australia To Get World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant?
It’s like the Olympics around here. No sooner has a world record been broken then along comes an announcement of that same record being freshly eclipsed. Yet another project is claiming to be the world?s largest solar power plant, albeit solar thermal. This time it is the [...]
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DECISIVE ACTION TO PROTECT MISSION BEACH CASSOWARIES
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has acted to [...]
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New $6.5m recycling plant for Brisbane
Brisbane has a new $6.5 million plastic recycling plant, which will stop about 6,000 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere each year.
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Australia’s Climate Change Report Reads “Like a Disaster Novel”
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The conclusions of a new report written by Australia’s top climate scientists are grim: Heatwaves are expected to increase 10-fold while droughts will almost double in number and become more widespread — possibly impacting an area twice as large as now. Rainfall is also projected [...]
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Saab gets set to increase BioPower models, despite one E85 pump in Australia
BioPower will soon supersede petrol engines in Saab’s range. Saab gets set to increase BioPower models, despite one E85 pump in Australia. LUXURY brand Saab will soon consolidate its commitment to selling bio-ethanol vehicles in Australia, making its…
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Current targets unlikely to avoid ‘dangerous climate change’
New research warns measures to cut greenhouse gases need to be ramped up to keep temperature increases below dangerous levels. An Australian National University report found the earth’s ability to absorb carbon will decline as global warming increases, accelerating the rate of temperature change. The report’s principal author, [...]
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Renewable energy ‘will be cheapest in long run’
Rising fossil fuel prices mean renewable energy will provide cheaper electricity in the long run, according to a Greenpeace report. The report, Energy [R]evolution, which was issued yesterday and uses modelling by Greenpeace and Canberra energy expert Dr Hugh Saddler, also calls for coal-fired.
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Petrol prices: how can we be convinced to drive less?
Petrol prices aren’t going to come down, no matter how many political promises and pledges. Driving is going to become more and more expensive, as Ross Gittins points out http://business.smh.com.au/too-gutless-to-give-us-the-bad-oil-20080610-2ogn.html.
The trouble is, successive governments have focused almost solely on new roads, all these fabulous M2s and M5s [...]
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Today is World Environment Day, what are you doing?
80 Ways to celebrate World Environment Day 2008
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