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Book Review: A STRONG BROWN GOD .. the Mary River Diary Author: Steven Lang Some seventeen years ago, in conversation with man from the state government’s Water Resources Commission, I made reference to Steven Lang who had just walked the length of the Mary River, from its source in the hills to the west of Maleny, to its mouth, beyond … [Read more...]
Book Review - Factor Five Transforming the Global Economy through 80% improvements in Resource Productivity Ernst Von Weizsacker; Karlson “Charlie” Hargroves; Michael H. Smith; Cheryl Desha; Peter Stasinopoulos Publisher: Earthscan 2009 ISBN 978-1-84407-591-1 Whilst climate change is “the moral challenge of our time” -- it … [Read more...]
If it weren't for the scientific data, meticulously documented case studies, analysis of legislative and political machinations and the honest, personal narrative, one would prefer this book to be a work of fiction. Sadly, it is not. This stuff of nightmares is real – and getting worse. Unless we urgently do something about it. Dr Markus has … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
“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 fuel, water, food and shelter? Would … [Read more...]
Book Review: by Valerie Lewis I first read the script of Elaine’s book while on holiday in Sydney and found myself having to read out passages of it to friends who could hardly believe what they were hearing. A fun park on Mount Coolum? Development on the Marcus Dunes? While it sounds incredible today, these and other disasters almost … [Read more...]
Book Review: Overloading Australia Greenhouse gases going up. Oil and gas depleting. House prices exploding. Overloading Australia explains why -- and how to stop it. The press of numbers on this continent affects us all – those living, as well as those yet to be born. To talk of saving the environment or of climate change is … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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