Archive for March, 2010

Australia: State of the Climate

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The climate is changing and human activity is almost certainly to blame. That’s the conclusion of a new report called State of the climate just released by the Australian CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.
This snapshot provides observations and analysis of Australia’s climate and the factors that influence it. Two organisations, CSIRO and the [...]

Electric Cars and a Better Place

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

The Ted Talk above by Shai Agassi is all the more remarkable given it was given in 2009 and, since then, his vision is starting to be rolled out. The Better Place network is being rolled out in Canberra, where I live, and the Renault Fluence electric car that uses Better Place’s charging system [...]

Uncomplicating Carbon

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Simon McCabe, Carbon Planet’s Queensland State Manager, gave the above speech the other day at a breakfast ever for Aged Care Queensland. Simon touches on the existing and forthcoming climate change legislation in Australia and makes the point that it doesn’t matter what you believe about climate change, the Carbon Economy is here already [...]