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Giles Parkinson
Giles Parkinson is a journalist of 30 years experience, a former Business Editor and Deputy Editor of the Financial Review, a columnist for The Bulletin magazine and The Australian, and the former editor of Climate Spectator.
Latest Post: Will financial markets veto Australia’s mega coal mines?
Paul Gilding
Paul is an independent writer, corporate advisor and advocate for action on climate change and sustainability. He is widely recognised as a global authority and thought leader on sustainability and business and has worked with the Chairs, CEOs and executives of many leading global companies including DuPont, Diageo, BHP Billiton and Ford. During 35 years as an activist and entrepreneur he has served as CEO of a range of innovative NGO’s and companies including Greenpeace International and two companies he owned - Ecos Corporation and Easy Being Green. He has also served on the board of many non-profit groups. His speaking and work has taken him to over 30 countries. His current roles include as a member of the Core Faculty at Cambridge University’s Program for Sustainability Leadership. His book “The Great Disruption” was published globally by Bloomsbury in 2011 and has been widely acclaimed, including in the New York Times. His blog, The Cockatoo Chronicles, can be found at www.paulgilding.com
Latest Post: The Black and White Knights of Australian climate policy
Andrew Freedman
Latest Post: As oceans warm, fish are finding new post codes
Matthew Wright
Latest Post: Biogas no saviour for Sydney’s trigen plan
Daniel J Weiss
Latest Post: You can’t talk about fixing the grid without talking about climate change
Joe Romm
Latest Post: Grantham urges climate scientists: Be aggressive, be brave, be arrested
Sean Kidney
Latest Post: The painful truth from Jeffrey Sachs: We’re in deep trouble
Tim Buckley
Latest Post: Demand management: A clean winner in the low-carbon race
Stephen Lacey
Latest Post: Two-thirds of world’s top companies have set green targets
Sophie Vorrath
Latest Post: Mixed Greens: China carbon market trades below Europe on debut
Climate Central
Latest Post: Airpod: Super smart car, breath of fresh air
Andrew Want
Latest Post: Lost in translation: Explaining the value of solar thermal
Frank Jotzo
Latest Post: Australia’s emissions projections: bleak, but too pessimistic
Bruce Macfarlane
Latest Post: CEFC: renewables funding without the risk
Louis Verchot
Latest Post: Ignoring forests won’t solve Rio+20′s problems
Brad Johnson
Latest Post: Meet Paul Ryan: Climate denier, conspiracy theorist, Koch acolyte
Peter Hansford
Latest Post: Solar in the Kimberley: looking beyond the roof
Matthew Rimmer
Latest Post: Future Fund drops tobacco: should fossil fuels be next?
The Conversation
Latest Post: Victorian wind laws: A blow to Australia’s clean energy future
Jonathan Pincus
Latest Post: The hidden logic of industry subsidies
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Latest Post: Is the Great Barrier Reef still heritage-worthy?
Lily Morrissey
Latest Post: Eco living in a global village: does the Earth move you, too?
Fergus Green
Latest Post: Europe, Australia and the slow death of carbon trading
Alyson Kenward
Latest Post: Women are the true face of climate change
Nick Rowley
Latest Post: Obama’s inauguration speech a real source of climate hope
Ian Lowe
Latest Post: The green issues we should be hearing about this election
Glenn Tamblyn
Latest Post: The Earth is still warming, enough to boil Sydney Harbour dry…
George Crisp and David Shearman
Latest Post: Energy White Paper: The true cost of backwards thinking
Justin Norrie
Latest Post: Millions of unknown species likely in danger of extinction
Stephen Howes
Latest Post: For peat’s sake, we need an overhaul of forestry aid
Mikel Duke
Latest Post: A desalination revolution that saves water and energy
Victoria McKenzie-McHarg
Latest Post: Baillieu’s anti-climate strategy doesn’t add up
Eugenie Kayak
Latest Post: Are we to remain in a dirty industrial revolution?
Adam James
Latest Post: Marketing the smart grid: The challenge of selling complexity
Joshua Zaffos
Latest Post: Military sees threats, worry in climate change
David Spratt
Latest Post: “Critical decade” or “lost decade”? (3) Is the future unspeakable?
Michael D. Lemonick
Latest Post: Methane ‘bomb’ has scientists eyeing defences
Warwick Johnston
Latest Post: 70 hours without power: Beating blackouts with grid independence
RenewEconomy editors
Latest Post: Keep it clean: Pollies tell some crackers!
Barbara Fraser
Latest Post: How ocean warming is priming the Amazon for fire
John Connor
Latest Post: Three key measures to help Abbott avoid a carbon crunch
John Mathews
Latest Post: Keystone XL threatens true American ‘energy independence’
Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Latest Post: China unveils massive clean energy plan for 2013
Stephen King
Latest Post: Gas reservation scheme is protectionism in disguise
Andrew Glikson
Latest Post: Are CFCs responsible for global warming?
Michael Ashley
Latest Post: If it’s experts you’re after, look elsewhere
Mike Burbridge
Latest Post: Everybody’s talkin about sustainability…
Kevin Parton
Latest Post: Australia to hit 2012 Kyoto target, but don’t get too excited
David Shearman
Latest Post: Is the coal industry economically worthless?
Rowena Ball
Latest Post: Charcoal challenges: The dynamics of fire and climate
Jeffrey Cavanagh
Latest Post: EU looks to China for renewables growth
Daniel Tan
Latest Post: Growing the grunt: developing green biofuels for Australia
Jeff Angel
Latest Post: Collaborate or confront? Environmental politics in 2013
Geoffrey Brooks
Latest Post: Precious metal: Why we should respect embedded energy
Robert van Waarden
Latest Post: Designing wind turbines for a country that isn’t windy
Center for American Progress
Latest Post: Drill, baby, drill: America’s future under Big Oil
Damon Honnery
Latest Post: Can technology really clean up coal’s act?
Lynette Molyneaux
Latest Post: What will Australia’s power system look like in a few decades?
Graham Readfearn
Latest Post: Just how many climate sceptics are there?
Frances Quinn
Latest Post: Teaching kids to think critically about climate change
Richard W. Caperton
Latest Post: Draft US climate bill would price carbon and cut emissions
Nigel Morris
Latest Post: NSW plunges into past and allows electric hot water systems
Ned L. Harvey
Latest Post: Can the world’s energy disparity spawn innovation?
John Cook
Latest Post: No such thing as climate change denial – just fake experts
Stephanie Pradier
Latest Post: Have some guts and help the environment
Rosalie Taylor
Latest Post: The environmental footprint of your favourite shoes
Jerry Vanclay
Latest Post: Do carbon labels change consumer behaviour?
Gordon Weiss
Latest Post: GEMS: Getting serious about energy efficiency
George Monbiot
Latest Post: Must read: End of an era, how to defend life on Earth
Alden Meyer
Latest Post: It’s Obama! Now what for climate change and clean energy?
Geoff Bragg
Latest Post: A shot across the bow of self-consumption solar
Mike Barnard
Latest Post: How wrong can a press release for an anti-wind rally be?
Peter Bjerregaard
Latest Post: Govts may not be key players in Rio+20 talks
Greg Combet
Latest Post: The new reality on local, national and global climate action
John Quiggin
Latest Post: There’s more to good policy than increasing GDP
Max Frankel
Latest Post: Top EV-friendly cities: What are they doing right?
Wai-Shin Chan and Nick Robins
Latest Post: China’s CO2 emissions may not peak until 2030
Ray Wills
Latest Post: Australia keeps adding solar, as rooftop installs head to one million
Adam Bumpus
Latest Post: Carbon tax? That’s so 1991. Clean innovation is where it’s at
Scott Bocskay
Latest Post: How to capture the full value of retro-fits
Maria Skyllas-Kazacos
Latest Post: Explainer: storing renewable energy
Tina Casey
Latest Post: Electric planes could fly forever on laser beams
Roger Dargaville
Latest Post: Now we know: Zero emissions power is possible in Australia
Oliver Hartley
Latest Post: Losing solar bonus points: Qld undercuts its best resource
Zachary Shahan
Latest Post: Concentrated solar power for 5.57 cents/kWh
Jonathan Sobels
Latest Post: Will Sydney or Melbourne have more hungry people in 2036?
Kelly Vaughn
Latest Post: How a community solar scheme is turning sunshine into dollars
Silvio Marcacci
Latest Post: Is concentrating solar power the technology that saves humanity?
Peter Fries
Latest Post: Intersolar: The solar industry goes mainstream
Ron Pernick
Latest Post: Clean Energy Trends 2013: The future is all about deployment
Allan Curtis
Latest Post: Australia’s place in global food chain: Time to wise up
Fiona OHehir
Latest Post: Why the RET is gold medal-winning energy policy
Simon Chapman
Latest Post: Wind turbine syndrome: a classic ‘communicated’ disease
Fergus Green and Reuben Finighan
Latest Post: Australia has power to lead world to zero carbon prosperity
Tim Flannery
Latest Post: World at tipping point for new era of clean energy
Nancy Wimmer
Latest Post: Clean energy access for all: Bangladesh’s solar success
Fron Jackson-Webb
Latest Post: Clue to carbon storage in the Southern Ocean
Jake Richardson
Latest Post: Algae-covered walls to heat German building
Rod Campbell
Latest Post: Two reasons why Victoria will never be a brown coal export hub
Erika Spanger-Siegfried
Latest Post: Drought and heat reveal US power supply risk
Brigit Busicchia
Latest Post: Biofuel policy + drought: Another food price crisis?
Mark Byrne
Latest Post: Electricity market reform: All choice and no obligations
Edwin Stafford and Cathy Hartman
Latest Post: How to make green more macho
Michael E. Mann
Latest Post: Ignore Hansen’s climate warning at our peril
John Farrell
Latest Post: Plug in, the solar power transformation is coming
Charis Michelsen
Latest Post: Top 10 most fuel efficient cars: they’re electric!
Ryan Schuchard
Latest Post: Climate 2.0: What is expected of business now?
Rob Murray-Leach
Latest Post: Australia saddled with a Taj Mahal power network
Hugh Saddler
Latest Post: Brown coal generators feel pinch of falling demand
CleanTechnica
Latest Post: Asia-Pacific solar PV demand to reach new heights
Adam Johnston
Latest Post: Is the solar market on the cusp of recovery?
James Martin
Latest Post: The strange case of NSW’s disappearing solar tariff rates
Ketan Joshi
Latest Post: Origin’s wind energy analysis based on hot air
Don Anair
Latest Post: EVs: What we should learn from the EU lifecycle assessment
Hugh Outhred
Latest Post: We know why power prices are up, but what to do about it?
Zane Alcorn and Ben Courtice
Latest Post: Can Australia’s coal customers shop elsewhere?
Darren Miller
Latest Post: Making a One Big Switch? Don’t forget the sun
Emilie Parkinson
Latest Post: Oaks Flat lays claim to country’s first carbon neutral bowling club
Jeremy Grantham
Latest Post: Welcome to Dystopia: the dangerous food and energy crises
Climate Progress
Latest Post: Overturned US EPA coal rule would have saved lives and dollars
Erwin Jackson
Latest Post: Explainer: China carbon trading schemes kick off
Jon Jutsen
Latest Post: Why electricity prices are rising – the horse has bolted
Zhengrong Shi
Latest Post: Zhengrong Shi: Why I stood aside as Suntech CEO
Leigh Ewbank
Latest Post: Anti-wind farm laws are bad politics for a Premier on the nose
Paul Curnow
Latest Post: EU carbon price link could be a political win-win
Charis Palmer
Latest Post: Queensland a leader in solar? Not on Campbell Newman’s watch
Giles Parkinson & Sophie Vorrath
Latest Post: Mixed Greens: Pacific Hydro goes retail to challenge utilities
Stuart Rosewarne
Latest Post: Right to coal compensation was folly from the start
Amory Lovins and Jon Creyts
Latest Post: Hot air about cheap natural gas
Kiley Kroh
Latest Post: Shell puts Arctic offshore drilling plans on ice
David Hilbert
Latest Post: Climate change will transform the Australian bush…
Trevor Winnie
Latest Post: The demonisation of cleantech: the five biggest myths
Georgina Woods
Latest Post: The coal industry’s Great Illusionist Brief
Nicholas Brown
Latest Post: Georgia agrees to help fund 1GW solar PV plant
John Davidson
Latest Post: Methanol electrofuel: A transport game changer
Kellie Caught
Latest Post: Renewables industry risks stalling without 2030 target
Lynne Chester
Latest Post: Gillard’s electricity plan: It’s a band-aid, not a cure
John Boland
Latest Post: Wind power: Behind the South Australia success story
Jenny Hayward
Latest Post: Ocean power making waves in Australia’s clean energy future
Craig Memery
Latest Post: Flexible electricity pricing in Victoria a positive step
Jeremy Leggett
Latest Post: 50 Months: The climate clock is ticking. Normal isn’t working
Dylan McConnell
Latest Post: Electricity prices fall: renewable energy deserves merit
Dane Muldoon
Latest Post: A fair and reasonable solar tariff… or fair reason to quit the grid?
Andreas Nauen
Latest Post: It’s time to set the course for a green energy future
Damien Moyse
Latest Post: Avoiding the peak: The value of grid-connected power storage
Cynthia Shahan
Latest Post: World wind turbines to cross 300,000MW mark
Andrew Petersen
Latest Post: A global climate agreement could be an economic win
David Green
Latest Post: Making our own luck with clean energy and mining
Tauseef Hussain
Latest Post: UK injects £20m into search for electricity storage systems
Peter Pudney
Latest Post: Don’t wait for EV infrastructure, you (probably) don’t need it
Richard Scotney and Alex Wyatt
Latest Post: China’s clean energy lead should be Australia’s call to action
Douglas Fischer
Latest Post: The Iron Lady’s strong stance on climate change
David Friedman
Latest Post: Bjorn Lomborg’s hot air on electric cars
Robin Canniford
Latest Post: Greenwash: Are clean companies real or a marketing image?
Jonathan Gifford
Latest Post: Interview: Inside Sungevity’s expansion Down Under
Sarah Waddell
Latest Post: Is the carbon price really cutting emissions?
Michael Halpern
Latest Post: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake
Barry Naughten
Latest Post: US elections and environment: the politics and policy fundamentals
Oliver Wagg
Latest Post: Insight: Australia’s wind energy setback – tracing origins of 2km rule
The Daily Climate
Latest Post: Climate scientist sues for defamation
Chris Milton
Latest Post: Onshore wind: A theoretical, middle class, left-wing article of faith?
Peter Christoff
Latest Post: Carbon: Another budget in massive deficit
Stephan Lewandowsky
Latest Post: A storm of stupidity? Sandy, evidence and climate change
Paul Ehrlich
Latest Post: Four ways Obama could make a real difference in his second term
Will McGoldrick
Latest Post: Stronger emission reduction targets for less
Andrew Blakers
Latest Post: Get solar PV FiTs right, or get the electricity market all wrong
Sunanda Creagh
Latest Post: 20 years on, climate change predictions have come true
Marilyn Johnson
Latest Post: Electric bikes at 250W: the view has opened up nicely
John O'Brien
Latest Post: Cleantech comp entrants attract $113m in investment
Adam Corner
Latest Post: Corby by-election: British Tories all talk on wind power
Barbara Norman
Latest Post: Australia feels the heat, as climate planning unravels
Nathan Fabian
Latest Post: Dear Doha: Time to get the climate policy right
Nicholas Low
Latest Post: Wean transport off fossil fuels, or grind to a halt
Keith Lovegrove
Latest Post: Concentrating solar power: It’s a good bet for the future
Dominique Hes
Latest Post: We need to diagnose the environmental health of buildings
Ryan Matley
Latest Post: Ground source heat pumps: good enough for the Queen
Judith Friedlander
Latest Post: Why aren’t we talking about meat and climate change?
Ken Mathers
Latest Post: Home EV charging doesn’t come for free… or does it? And are you ready?
Dan Yawitz
Latest Post: UN report warns of catastrophic loss of permafrost
Michael J I Brown
Latest Post: Straw man science: Keeping climate simple
Union of Concerned Scientists
Latest Post: 2012 in Review: EVs find success by the numbers
Mark Trexler
Latest Post: Earthquakes to climate: Why our biases mask the risk
Richard Mackie
Latest Post: Wind turbine infrasound: What’s all the noise about?
Leigh Glover
Latest Post: Who will speak up for climate change adaptation?
Ryan Wittingslow
Latest Post: Vampires and wind farms: mass hysteria can be a pain in the neck
Tim Tyler
Latest Post: German offshore wind farm fed 267.8GWh into grid in 2012
Gill Owen
Latest Post: Power prices: Beating the peak without punishing the poor
Damian Sullivan and John Thwaites
Latest Post: COAG’s energy market reforms must protect the poor
Clint Wilder
Latest Post: Cleantech is no more dead than the internet was in 2000
Jane Andrew and Corinne Cortese
Latest Post: The private world of carbon reporting
Jeff Spross
Latest Post: US Congressional budget office endorses price on carbon
Catherine Happer
Latest Post: Science’s call to arms over energy policy
Mridul Chadha
Latest Post: German renewable energy subsidies set to be cut post-election
Tim Winter
Latest Post: Air con: We need to talk about indoor climate change
Daily Climate staff
Latest Post: Australia’s bushfires visible from space
Peter Bronski
Latest Post: Is a high renewables future really possible? – Part II
Glen Wright
Latest Post: Reducing peak power demand: targets are good practice
Yanshuang Zhang
Latest Post: Deadly air: the smog shrouding China’s future
Brad Jessup
Latest Post: The good and bad of linking carbon price to California
Kieren Cooke
Latest Post: Global energy governance ‘needs urgent reform’
Rebecca Leber
Latest Post: US House Committee cancels climate denier hearing, due to weather
Ronald Brakels
Latest Post: UK solar costs pounded: Largest solar farm £1 per Watt
Frederick Trainer
Latest Post: Off-grid living possible, but it’s not enough to fix climate change
Colin Meehan
Latest Post: Texas wind and solar highly competitive with gas: report
Roy Torbert and Blake Herrschaft
Latest Post: Will driverless cars decrease fossil fuel consumption?
Ross Garnaut
Latest Post: Falling EU carbon price should inspire greater mitigation efforts
Jon Brodie
Latest Post: Mining or farming: What’s polluting the Great Barrier Reef?
Jeff Spross and Joe Romm
Latest Post: State of the Union: Obama to crack down on emissions
Kirsten Lea
Latest Post: Solar forecasting: Will it be cloudy on my birthday in 2015?
Brad Walter
Latest Post: Gambling on a league legend to sell coal seam gas
Dan Lashof
Latest Post: 17% cut in US carbon pollution by 2020? Yes, they can
Brendan Demelle
Latest Post: Study confirms Tea Party created by Big Tobacco and billionaires
Christine Adams-Hosking and Clive McAlpine
Latest Post: Koala in the coal mine
Lauren Morello
Latest Post: Thinning ice is turning arctic into an algae hotspot
Julien Vincent
Latest Post: Coal, and CSG: $247bn sleeping time bomb for super funds
Andrew Nikiforuk
Latest Post: Fracking bubble: Shale gas won’t solve energy crunch, says report
Christine Milne
Latest Post: Why Greg Hunt’s Direct Action policy is a sham
Lindsay Soutar
Latest Post: It’s time to share the sizzling solar success story
Richard Williams
Latest Post: The missing link: Why Australia needs energy storage
Cathy Alexander
Latest Post: Australia’s top carbon cutters: solar pioneer Martin Green
Jesse Morris
Latest Post: Other people’s money: How crowdfunding lowers cost of solar
Matt Kasper and Jack Jenkins
Latest Post: Will the next Pope tackle climate change?
Nicole Miller
Latest Post: Energy storage breakthrough hints at renewables revolution
Shaun Crowe
Latest Post: Little Green people from outer space: labelling Christine Milne and co
Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang
Latest Post: US clean-car battle shows how to fight for emissions reduction
Ryan Koronowski
Latest Post: US-China strike major deal on cutting greenhouse gases
Tania Ritchie
Latest Post: The hot new product for grids: plug and play solar
Martin Jones
Latest Post: States of decay: the need to complement carbon policy
Olivia Kember and Erwin Jackson
Latest Post: Endless tinkering no way to win the carbon game
Gujji Muthuswamy
Latest Post: Why a bipartisan approach is crucial on carbon pricing
Albert Chan Jesse Morris and Leia Guccione
Latest Post: PV prices show Australia is no longer a solar underdog
Mark Diesendorf
Latest Post: Baseload power is a myth: even intermittent renewables will work
Simon Morley and Robert Day
Latest Post: Warning bells: What Antarctica can teach us about ocean acidification
pitt& sherry
Latest Post: Carbon emissions continue to fall, despite record summer heat
Jason Alexandra & Andrew Campbell
Latest Post: Can we resolve the ‘peak everything’ problem?
Chris Dalitz
Latest Post: EVs and solar power – go together like a horse and carriage
Hugh Grossman
Latest Post: Australian power emissions fall to 10-year low as coal output drops
Zane Alcorn
Latest Post: Plans for fourth loader in world’s largest coal port unravelling
John Connor and Olivia Kember
Latest Post: Infrastructure managers walking backwards into the climate future
Ben Rose
Latest Post: Pumped hydro: Storage solution for a renewable energy future
Zana Nesheiwat
Maria van der Hoeven
Latest Post: IEA: We must change course on energy before it is too late
Maurizio Toscano & Dick Gross & Paul Carter
Latest Post: Thanks to China, our carbon price is here to stay
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Amory Lovins
Latest Post: Renewable Germany: The very model of a new energy order
Stephen Leahy
Peter Newton
Latest Post: Green hypocrites? Behaviour change in a consumerist society
Solar Love
Latest Post: Largest solar power plant in world now under construction
Ben Holland and Peter Bronski
Latest Post: Can New York City pave the way for EVs and cleaner air?
Jennifer Kent
Latest Post: Beyond light bulbs: individual responsibility and climate action
Laura Eadie
Latest Post: More solar, less power demand, higher prices: Does it add up?
Nigel Purvis, Samuel Grausz & Andrew Light
Latest Post: Carbon market crossroads: New ideas to combat climate change
Mike Jacobs
Latest Post: Buffett & co choose wind energy investment over nuclear
Katherine Lake
Latest Post: Learning from Europe’s price crash: We need a carbon bank
Phil Burn
Latest Post: 10 reasons why Napthine should bin Victoria’s wind laws
Stephen McGrail
Latest Post: Climate action under an Abbott government
Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Latest Post: Why the 400 ppm climate milestone is irrelevant
Dana Nuccitelli & John Cook
Latest Post: Study finds 97% consensus on human-caused global warming
Jenny Riesz
Latest Post: Garnaut recommends emissions target of minus 17% by 2020
Steven Phipps
Latest Post: Climate change: Short-term variability vs long-term warming
Brian Foley
Latest Post: How electric vehicles that feed the grid will pay off
Erik Gawel & Sebastian Strunz
Latest Post: Can renewables power post-nuclear Germany?
Luke Reedman
Latest Post: $240 billion cuppa: Plan for Australia’s future electricity grid
Craig Morris
Latest Post: German renewables: Commercial sector discovers self consumption
Staff Reporters
Latest Post: Mixed Greens: Deeper emission cuts would cost little extra
Zack Beauchamp
Latest Post: How China may have just changed the climate game
Bill McKibben
Latest Post: Global warming maths – we’re down to our last 500 gigatonnes
crimsonleaf
Brad Farrant & Mark G Edwards
Latest Post: Your MP won’t act on climate change? Ask the tough questions
Blake Herrschaft
Latest Post: Five reasons car enthusiasts should be begging to go electric
Tim Edwards
Latest Post: HFC phase-out will deliver cheaper cooling – and a cooler planet
Ben Courtice
Latest Post: Graph of the Day: Can high-speed rail cut air travel emissions?
Bob Burton
Latest Post: BHP Billiton – and the art of not mentioning coal
Lena Hansen
Latest Post: Retail electricity prices: It’s time to unbundle the package
Luke Kemp
Latest Post: Think politics is frustrating? Welcome to climate negotiations
Michelle Grattan
Latest Post: Garnaut reconciles economic growth and conservation
Ellen Franconi
Latest Post: Me and my iCar: One woman’s journey to the Nissan LEAF
Jon Walter
Latest Post: Water risk: Could China’s coal industry run dry?
Amber Archangel
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