Australia: Rudd faces emissions trading showdown
Australian: KEVIN Rudd is facing a showdown over the inclusion of petrol in any emissions trading scheme, with the Coalition now backflipping over the issue. Opposition Treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull today blamed rising fuel prices for the Coalition’s apparent shift in policy, after less than a year ago arguing the [...]
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Cycling Saves Australia $200 million in Health Costs
A new report, has after analysing the data, come up with a figure for the public health benefit offered by cycling. The study, Cycling: Getting Australia Moving, funded by the Australian government and prepared by Melbourne University and the Cycling Promotion Fund concluded that thanks to the increased [...]
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Bicycle - The new green investment
Super Cheap Autos today announced the purchase of two bicycle retail chains for a combined $7.4 million, just a week after travel specialist Flight Centre announced the purchase of a bicycle brand and talks over a possible joint venture with the 99Bikes retail chain.So what could be attracting the interest [...]
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Doubts cast on green car plans
A NEW report has cast doubt on the Rudd Government’s green car fund, saying it is unlikely to lead to more environmentally friendly vehicles being…
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Peak hour car trips have higher emissions: survey
An RACQ study has found that Brisbane drivers use 30 per cent more fuel getting to work in peak hour, compared to the same journey in the middle of the day.
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MIT Students Set Out to Develop Cost Efficient Solar Power
A team of MIT students, led by mechanical engineering graduate student Spencer Ahrens, has spent the last few months assembling a prototype for a concentrating solar power system they think could revolutionize the…
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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: Garnaut’s verdict on Eddington report
Age: THE $18 billion Eddington transport plan is unlikely to be of much help in dealing with climate change, according to the Federal Government’s climate policy adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut. “Better public transport systems probably can make a contribution, but they can’t make it quickly,” Garnaut said yesterday. “It’s more [...]
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Australia: Emissions plan may omit petrol
Australian: ASSISTANT Treasurer Chris Bowen has left the door open to exempting petrol from a national emissions trading scheme. Mr Bowen confirmed yesterday that Kevin Rudd’s concern over petrol prices putting pressure on family budgets would be a consideration in the design of any emissions trading scheme. But he played [...]
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Lamborghini aims for a greener extreme machine
LAMBORGHINI is going green with a promise to reduce emissions by 40 per cent in some of the fastest sportscars on the…
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