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More than 90,000 trees planted, an innovative waste water treatment plant, and the Greenhouse, the six-day talk fest devoted to issues around environmentalism and sustainability – the folk who run the Woodford Folk Festival have some pretty impressive green credentials. And they’re looking at ways of cutting carbon emissions associated with … [Read more...]
In her office at the Nambour headquarters of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, Cr Vivien Griffin pulls out the super-duper plan for the Mooloolah River Interchange and by the look in her eyes asks silently, ‘What do you think of that?’. It’s then that you realise that projected population growth is sending people loopy, including … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Without a doubt, the most glaring example of wasteful consumption is personal transport based on the motor vehicle. Think of what is needed to build a vehicle with all its components, to keep it fuelled and running, to provide the infrastructure, highways, parking lots, to repair the damage it causes, to dispose of its rusting remains. There are … [Read more...]
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