Air pollution – the (sometimes) sweet smelling other elephant in the room in Australia
By Dr Anthony Horton. In the past few weeks the costs associated with poor air quality in India and Europe have been published in terms […]
Environment
Everyone Can Benefit From a Green Future – Unless You’re in Australia
By Anthony Horton According to the European Environment State and Outlook report 2015 (SOER) published by the European Environment Agency, green industries in Europe grew by […]
Near Term Extinction – Is Our Ultimate Demise at Hand?
Guy McPherson’s theories on climate change have been creating controversy in both Europe and the US. Is mankind only a decade and a half away […]
Labor framed as the villain again
Over the last couple of days, the Twittersphere has been full of congratulations for Waleed Aly’s The Project segment on the Renewable Energy Target (RET). […]
Investing in women to save the world
Most contemporary estimates for the carrying capacity of the Earth under existing conditions are between 4 billion and 16 billion. In 2013 the human population […]
Fire: what have we learned from the devastation?
Some of the lessons learned from decades of studying major fires have been learned, and then forgotten, in a drive to simplify the message to […]
The CSIRO and the missing climate change data
Kirsten Tona’s article on Newpolitics.com.au – Government ignoring climate change while the planet burns (and published on The AIMN as Canberra fiddles while Australia burns) […]
Canberra fiddles while Australia burns
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the effects of climate change are having a devastating impact on present and future Australia, Kirsten Tona reports that the […]
A tree is for life, not just for Christmas!
There is something quite magical about trees. From the food we eat to the air we breath trees sustain us. They provide us with medicines, […]
Property developer turns over a new “green” leaf
The construction industry is paying much closer attention to sustainability and energy efficiency, reports Dr Anthony Horton. One of Australia’s largest developers has recently issued […]
RET 2.0 – Or Is It?
Dr Anthony Horton reports that although the renewal energy industry is becoming increasingly competitive, international investors are turning their backs on Australia. On October 22 […]
Shark ecotourism – The no bull shark approach
Shark ecotourism – The no bull shark approach Two weeks ago I was assigned the task of writing up a ‘mock briefing’ as part of one […]
Humanity’s Choice
It was a cold morning in mid August in 2013 when the choice finally dawned on me, after almost 3 years at University and two […]
Tell me what I want to hear
As it becomes increasingly apparent that households will not be $550 a year better off without the carbon tax we hear the rhetoric change. Andrew […]
Climate change is irrelevant
In the argument for investment in renewable energy in Australia, the existence, or non-existence of climate change is irrelevant, writes Warwick O’Neill. Like most semi-intelligent […]