A recent ACF article has reported that global engineering company, WorleyParsons believes Australia has the potential to house 34 solar thermal power stations by as soon as 2020.
“WorleyParsons is planning to build the world’s largest solar thermal power plant in Australia by 2011 and is undertaking a study to find potential sites for its first [...]

ECO online issue 10 is now up and running.
Inside this edition we focus on one of the biggest issues facing society today - peak oil. Follow this link to go straight to the website.
As usual we have our regular features with some great articles supplied by our contributors. Without their hard work ECO would not [...]

Well sometimes it seems you can have little victories. After some big delays and days of information and images lost, ECO online issue 10 is now complete.
We have some great new articles and as usual, without the contributions we receive, ECO could not exist.
The print edition is currently on the streets of the Sunshine Coast, [...]

Community advocacy organisation GetUp is concerned that the Federal Government’s green paper, outlining options for a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme …

Community action is the way forward on these issues. We must all work together, make the necessary changes …

A new CSIRO report on Australia’s future fuel challenges should prompt Federal and State governments to massively invest in public transport …

The Australian Conservation Foundation believes the Federal Government will need to consider greater emissions cuts than those assessed in Professor Ross Garnaut’s report …

Contradictory to their own reports, governments now appear enslaved by opinion polls and the revenue earned from the big greenhouse-gas offenders. Coal and oil are rapidly becoming the CFCs of the 21st century, but this time the politicians have selected hearing. This time the solutions are more complex … [click on the image of the latest print edition to continue reading]…

With fewer than 100,000 left in the wild and habitat disappearing fast, the koala is sadly an example of Australia’s loosening grip on biodiversity …

The Australian Wildlife Hospital recently completed a progress report on a ground-breaking koala research …