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Sustainability Innovators(0)

December 20, 2009

Sustainability innovators: Agents of change on the Sunshine Coast
Author: Dana C Thomsen
Documenting the stories of ten people from the Sunshine Coast, who according to their peers and colleagues have dedicated considerable time towards sustainability, Dr Dana Thomsen, Lecturer in Sustainability Advocacy at the University of the Sunshine Coast acknowledges their dedication and leadership in her new [...]

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The Clean Industrial Revolution

The Clean Industrial Revolution
Growing Australian prosperity in a greenhouse age
Author: Ben McNeil
The race is on to find ways to reduce our impact on the environment. Ben McNeil shows us how we can make the most of our natural advantages and how Australia businesses can benefit economically when adapting to the new environmental realities.
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“A passionate and [...]

It’s Crunch Time

By- Tony Kevin
When I began a year ago to write my book Crunch Time, the Rudd government had just whittled Garnaut’s recommended 25 per cent Australian emissions cut by 2020 down to a meaningless 5 per cent cut. Through 2009, the emissions trading scheme (ETS) negotiations built in increasingly lavish subsidies to big coal energy polluters. [...]

Evolution’s Edge

“The world is sleepwalking its way to the edge of catastrophe.… The Doomsday Clock of climate change is ticking ever faster towards midnight.” Prince Charles
Is it good enough to hope that everything will turn out fine? Would you take the people you love on a trip if you knew that you might run out of [...]


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