Carbon Footprints

Garnaut’s review, launched today at The National Press Club in Canberra, is simply titled the “Garnaut Climate Change Review - Draft Report, although there was, according to Prof Garnaut, a suggestion to call it “No Pain, No Rain.”
It’s the conclusion of his investigation that some very real risks can be mitigated by some very short-term [...]

In this issue we include feature articles:

The lowdown on Biofuels
The Hummer vs Prius Debate
Outrageous Wasters - a special article from our co-founder Dr Ross Williams

Plus our regular features:

Profile of a planet saving superhero - Meredith Henderson
Profile of a newly sustainable business - Caravan Pictures
Useful tips for saving the planet
How to talk to a climate skeptic

And [...]

We used to allow people to comment on stories but I got utterly overwhelmed with comment and trackback spam so I turned comments back off after a month or so. Since then plenty of people have emailed me to suggest solutions to the spam problem. So we recently updated the blog software and [...]

Cartoon ©Fiona Katauskas, used with permission
Political zine New Matilda is featuring a stinging rebuke of Murdoch’s The Australian, Australia’s only national daily paper, in an article The Australian, Free Speech and Hypocrisy by Clive Hamilton of The Australia Institute, author of the new book Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change which claims to blow [...]

I was in a taxi the other day and the chap on the radio was going on about how low energy light bulbs contain mercury and how some poor woman broke one and was supposedly faced with a US$2000 clean up bill by a gang of people in those white suits you see in the [...]

The Australian Associated Media Group has launched a new website in support of their new book Australian Innovation: Towards a Sustainable Future.

Australian Innovation: Towards a Sustainable Future, by Valerie Khoo, will introduce you to leading examples of innovations in sustainability in Australia. It is about the companies, government departments and individuals who are making bold [...]

Said Hanrahan
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.
The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.
“It’s looking crook,” said Daniel Croke;
“Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad,
For [...]

In the UK, The Guardian’s George Monbiot is saying The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it.
If the biosphere is ruined it will be done by people who know that emissions must be cut - but refuse to alter the way they live.
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks [...]

In the UK The Guardian is running part 1 of a series of extracts from George Monbiot’s new book, Heat. The first part is called The denial industry.
The oil giant ExxonMobil gives money to scores of organisations that claim the science on global warming is inconclusive - which it isn’t. It’s a strategy that [...]

Apparently it’s raining in Washington. In the opinion section of the Yahoo News, Gregg Easterbrook is asking, was the Washington Deluge Foretold by Global Warming Book?.
A spate of extraordinary precipitation does not prove climate change, any more than a long frigid spell would disprove global warming. Individual weather events can be just random fluctuation, [...]