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Mayor with a vision tranforms rural Czech community
By Robert van Waarden on 29 May 2012
Defeated by government, Petr Pavek is on a solo mission to develop a different, more sustainable future for his community.
Category: Resource Efficiency
Newman takes axe to Abbott’s Direct Action, and Qld bush
By Giles Parkinson on 23 May 2013
Newman takes an axe – and a bulldozer – to Queensland bushland, and to Tony Abbott’s Direct Action policy, by scrapping rules that prevented clear-felling.
Unnatural capital: Big industries trashing the global economy
By Giles Parkinson on 16 April 2013
New study finds $7.3trn of natural capital costs not being priced by the global economy. If it was, none of the top 20 regional sectors would be profitable, let alone cover their cost of capital. Time to change our economic measurements? One ANU academic says business-as-usual is a ‘utopian fantasy.’
How to create a net-zero energy home
By CleanTechnica on 23 May 2013
New report from America’s National Institute of Standards and Technology offers a guide to creating houses that generate as much energy as they use.
Swan dive on climate as study warns of disappearing pensions
By Giles Parkinson on 21 January 2013
Treasurer Wayne Swan addresses Australia’s biggest economic challenges and opportunities, and climate change barely gets a mention. Clean energy none at all. Meanwhile, a landmark report in the UK warns that the world’s pension schemes could be wiped out if politicians and actuaries continue to ignore climate and resource constraints.
Doha Dispatches: Mind the gap… and the science
By Giles Parkinson on 3 December 2012
At COP 18, the difference between the urgent need to act and the inertia of UN climate negotiations has never been so marked. Neither has the gap in expectations between developed and developing nations. For the most vulnerable countries, the offer on the table threatens to lock in failure.
Can fossil fuel divestment stop carbon bubble from bursting?
By Silvio Marcacci on 29 April 2013
Could the same movement that brought down Apartheid be the key tactic in convincing America to go fossil fuel free and preventing a new financial crisis?
Green hypocrites? Behaviour change in a consumerist society
By Peter Newton on 19 April 2013
It’s not easy being green … though it is easy to talk about it.
Utility lifts ambition for more distributed solar in Hawai’i
By John Farrell on 19 April 2013
Hawai’an solar advocates are celebrating after the island state’s largest utility, Hawai’ian Electric filed a plan with the public utility commission..
100% renewable energy: becoming the new normal?
By Diane Moss on 25 February 2013
A decade ago, aiming for 20 per cent renewable energy was seen as the cutting edge. Today, 100% renewable energy goals are becoming the new normal.
French vineyard to turn carbon emissions into toothpaste
By Mridul Chadha on 16 April 2013
A Bordeaux winery has announced plans to capture CO2 produced during fermentation and convert it into sodium bicarbonate to be used for making toothpaste.
Gunns: Collapse of a dinosaur a warning to old fossils
By Giles Parkinson on 26 September 2012
The collapse of Gunns holds important lessons for management and shareholders of all industries, but particularly miners and generators. The biggest one is that green business is the new market reality, and anyone betting on business as usual is wrong, and reckless.
“Artificial Leaf” makes clean energy from dirty water
By Tina Casey on 12 April 2013
One day soon: Buy a thin device the size of a playing card, dunk it in dirty bath water and generate your own electricity.
Graph of the Day: Whither the hydrogen economy?
By Joe Romm on 8 April 2013
Capital cost, not hydrogen supply, will limit adoption to a mere 5.9 GW, dashing dreams of a revolutionary energy future.
Paris marathon runners charge display screens with foot power
By Ryan Koronowski on 8 April 2013
The organisers of the Paris marathon laid special tiles across the course that enabled the kinetic energy from runners’ footsteps to charge display screens.
Can we resolve the ‘peak everything’ problem?
By Jason Alexandra & Andrew Campbell on 5 April 2013
How can a growing population with growing affluence sustain itself on a finite planet without wreaking havoc on nature and civilisation?
In 2040, when growth is a memory…
By Josh Dowse on 1 February 2013
Much of the stuff that drives economic growth is really very silly. The transition to a more meaningful measure can’t come soon enough.
Man-made wind for the wind turbines of the future
By Tina Casey on 4 February 2013
Anti-wind campaigners struggle with the concept of man-made climate change. What on earth will they make of man-made wind energy?
