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.
RMIT’s eco-friendly campus unveiled
RMIT’s new $56 million Design Hub building in Melbourne will incorporate evironmentally responsible design with an outer skin of 16,000 sand blasted glass cells, some of which will be photovoltaic solar power collectors to help shade and power the…
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…
ACT residents can produce electricity
ACT residents can now harness their own electricity and sell it back to the grid, under new laws passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly. Under the Electricity Feed-in (Renewable Energy Premium) Bill 2008, Canberrans can install photovoltaic (solar) cells or other renewable sources, produce their own…
59 new Green Corps projects announced
The Minister for Employment Participation, Brendan OConnor, today announced 59 Green Corps projects across Australia, providing new work experience opportunities for young people and also helping to improve their local…
Warning from former Environment Minister
The former Environment Minister Ian Campbell has warned the Federal Opposition not to oppose the inclusion of petrol in a carbon emissions trading scheme.
Most stumped by emissions scheme: survey
A survey has found the vast majority of people are unsure of how an emissions trading scheme will work and more than half have never heard of it.
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…
Winners and losers in Australian climate change
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Climate change could alter the farming map of Australia, with some agricultural operations moving into the wetter north of the island continent as the major food-producing belt in the south dries up.