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Rockcote wins international recognition
Australia’s first sustainable commercial building wins international recognition
Yandina-based Rockcote, manufacturers of eco-friendly paints and renders, have gained international recognition for their Gold Coast showroom. The Rockcote Design Centre, Australia’s first truly sustainable commercial building, is built on a former wasteland at Nerang.
The building was announced as the runner-up in the prestigious international 2008 Prix D’Excellence [...]
ECO 10 is now online
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 [...]
Queensland’s coal expansion
Despite other alternatives such as wind, solar and geothermal the Government is continuing to invest large amounts of money into the coal industry …
Omissions trading scheme
Community advocacy organisation GetUp is concerned that the Federal Government’s green paper, outlining options for a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, risks putting in place an “omissions trading scheme” that leaves out Australia’s biggest polluters and many other aspects of a scheme that would effectively reduce Australia’s emissions.
Executive Director Brett Solomon identified the following problems with [...]
Solutions to peak oil
Transition Sunshine Coast – Moving from oil dependency to local resilience
From Sonya Wallace from the Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre
These are truly unprecedented times for us all. The world is having to face up to the consequences of years of reliance on fossil fuels as a cheap energy source. We are facing a future of [...]
Nambour ahead in peak oil race
A study finds Nambour is relatively well protected from the expected blows of peak oil, however other Sunshine Coast locations won’t be so lucky.
A recent study has found Nambour to be relatively protected from the pain of escalating fuel prices.
As part of his environmental planning honours studies at Griffith University, Phil Woods questioned many Nambour [...]
Electric cars will be the norm
A new CSIRO report on Australia’s future fuel challenges should prompt Federal and State governments to massively invest in public transport and help reconfigure our vehicle manufacturing industry to produce cleaner cars, according to the Australian Conservation Foundation.
The report, Fuel for thought: the future of transport fuels: challenges and opportunities, looks at the need to [...]
Garnaut’s vision not far enough
The Australian Conservation Foundation believes the Federal Government will need to consider greater emissions cuts than those assessed in Professor Ross Garnaut’s report if future generations are to experience iconic Australian places currently under threat from climate change.
The Garnaut report (released July 4), models a range of emission reduction plans, but appears to fall short [...]
Peak energy and limits to growth
One hundred years ago today (as I write this in late May), sulfur fumes permeated the air at Masjid-i-Suleiman. A good sign indeed for an experienced oil hand like Reynolds. At 4am, the drill reached 360 metres under the desert sand and struck oil. A gusher, 25-metres-high, shot into the air. Arabian oil was born.
The [...]
Politicians need courage
In the early 70s scientists found chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were literally tearing holes in the earth’s ozone layer. Invisible and unnoticeable, a certain amount of faith was required to trust the scientific reports. This was no hypothesis, it was a scientific theory, because it was based upon evidence collected over time.
The solution to ozone depletion [...]
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