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Books for Gaia (0)

For anyone interested in the people who contributed in various ways to the development of the field, 2008’s Fixing Climate authors Robert Kunzig and Professor Wallace Broecker tell a comprehensive, entertaining and broadly informative story of the history of climate science. (They also offer a technologically demanding and probably unrealistic ‘fix’ for carbon dioxide pollution: [...]

A tale of two mountains (0)

Mount Coolum and Mount Ninderry are two very striking peaks visible from many parts of the Sunshine Coast, close to each other – only 10 kilometres as the crow flies – but very different in character and offering very different experiences for the eco adventurer.
They’re closely connected in the Dreamtime tale of the Gubbi Gubbi [...]

And the winner is … clean coal (1)

By Guest Writer, Lindsay Holt

Federal Environment and Climate Change Ministers jointly announced that there was less than 8 hours to submit solar rebate applications before they were stopped 3 weeks before schedule. Environment Minister, Peter Garrett is now clearly in the running as the most disappointing and underachieving environment minister in recent years.
The rationale for [...]

Climbing Coolum Mountain in 1927 (0)

The following story is taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers.
In this breezy account of a clamber up Mount Coolum, Vance Palmer, one of Australia’s most significant writers of the time, opens with the Aboriginal Creation Story. Now we leave those paragraphs out, in respect to the Indigenous owners. And while Vance [...]

Dam opposition well and truly afloat (0)

For a community that Government sources claim is starting to accept a dam, Mary Valley residents and others were showing no sign of it when they took too the river to visibly signpost the three mark in their fight too stop the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam.
Three years to the day since Peter Beattie’s shock announcement [...]

Wildlife: a changing climate is not their only concern (0)

I wish that we could blame the decline of our Australian native species on one major influence such as climate change, but unfortunately that is not the only problem facing our wildlife.
Human impact, in many forms, have been the direct culprit from the moment humans stepped onto this beautiful country.  As the population has increased [...]