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Sustainability Innovators
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 [...]
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 [...]
Green Legends of the Sunshine Coast
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 [...]
Overloading Australia
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 [...]
Books for Gaia
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: [...]
ABC of Carbon
HAVE you learned your carbon ABCs? Can you speak knowledgeably of bagasse, Jamaica, Petratherm or xerophily? Beyond Al Gore and Tim Flannery, can you identify Dame Anita Roddick or Vincent Serventy? Are you at a loss in discussions about cap-and-trade, carbon capture or coke?
To the rescue comes Ken Hickson, journalist, consultant, author, and governor of [...]
Being Food Savy
Do you ever think about the origins of the food you buy in the supermarket? Of course, you say. Well, would you be able to eat locally, every day, for a year of changing seasons? One American family decided to discover if they could, and they tell their story in the amazing [...]
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