Green intelligence: towards true ecological transparency
Wal-Mart’s push to develop a sustainability index will make consumers aware of the environmental impacts of what they buy.Environment - Daniel Goleman - posted 24/9/2009

The future is green
Coal jobs are now a retreating niche, whereas green jobs are a growing mainstream.Society - Simon Roz - posted 21/9/2009

A call for citizen climate action
Community groups pushing for climate action are a bunch of bright flowers in the desert of government inaction and spin.Environment - Mark Diesendorf - posted 18/9/2009

Dark clouds gather over coal’s future
Already 'carbon capture and storage', badged as 'clean coal' technology, is stumbling.Environment - David Spratt - posted 11/9/2009

Climate change: enough science, now for the politics
Science can prove global climate change is happening, but it won't tell us what to do about it.Environment - Mike Hulme - posted 11/9/2009

Solar power from space: moving beyond science fiction
For more than 40 years scientists have dreamed of collecting the sun’s energy in space and beaming it back to Earth.Science & Technology - Michael Lemonick - posted 10/9/2009

Prime Minister, we have a water problem
Recent developments confirm fears that Australia leads the world towards water mayhem.Environment - Bernard Eddy - posted 2/9/2009

Stemming the rising tide
Those countries which decline to take effective action to reduce their carbon emissions should be compelled to do so.Environment - Mike Pope - posted 2/9/2009

Unrealistic proposals
Climate change policy: it seems the stronger the feelings, the higher the targets demanded but the more unrealistic the proposals.Environment - Martin Nicholson - posted 27/8/2009

Why emission trading schemes are not the answer: a left critique
Using market forces or the profit motive to reduce carbon emissions won't work.Environment - Ken McKay - posted 27/8/2009

Only a price on water can end threat to food security
There is a looming global water crisis which climate change will aggravate by making rainfall more erratic in many regions.Society - Colin Chartres - posted 24/8/2009

CLIMATE CHANGE Ducking the challenge
Is Kevin Rudd a supporter or a critic of neo-liberal policymaking? On the evidence of his approach to climate change, it's hard to know, writes Brian Toohey

Rock power: Australia's future? It is likely that clean coal technology will prove so expensive that it is uncompetitive with renewables. Environment - Mike Pope - posted 5/8/2009

Opinion

Unleashing Shakti: our power to transform
Fossil fuels have fossilised our imagination, our potential, and our creativity.Environment - Vandana Shiva - posted 4/8/2009

The folly of ‘magical solutions’ for targeting carbon emissions
Governments and society should focus money and attention on workable solutions for improving energy efficiency. Environment - Roger Pielke - posted 4/8/2009

Peak oil may solve climate change
Unrealistic expectations of fossil energy supply is but one glaring error in the climate change science. Environment - James Bunger - posted 23/7/2009

CCS: investment in futility?
Why invest more than $2 billion in CCS when it can do little more than prolong the uneconomic use of fossil fuels? Science & Technology - Mike Pope - posted 23/7/2009

'Saving' Australia’s forests for carbon - valid science or 'green' activism?
Superficially, it may seem reasonable to cease timber production by placing all forests in national parks. Environment - Mark Poynter - posted 16/7/2009

Do the young have the will to make climate change sacrifices?
The prevailing attitude among young people today continues to be 'do as we say, not as we do' when it comes to saving their planet. Environment - Thom Woodroofe - posted 15/7/2009

Snowy Mountain Scheme for the 21st century
The Snowy Scheme provides a governance model for an effective approach to fixing climate change. Nation Building - Leigh Ewbank - posted 14/7/2009

Appealing to science in the AGW debate is delusional
It seems that the climate change debate highlights some basic shortcomings in the way we understand the notion of scientific objectivity. Feature - John Töns - posted 2/7/2009

NSW Labor Party: for the people or the polluters?
The NSW Labor Party is used to kowtowing to existing industries like coal mines, aluminium smelters and electricity producers.Feature - Simon Roz - posted 2/7/2009

Harsh Words for ‘Deniers’ from Nobel Laureate
"YET the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in gra [...]

'On again, off again' solar policy
It's hard to reconcile the government’s mismanagement of solar energy 'policy' with statements made before the election.Domestic Politics - Bill Parker - posted 1/7/2009

Forests - the essential climate fix
Native forests must be preserved: they play a critical role in securing a safe climate future.Feature - Amelia Young and Lucy Manne - posted 1/7/2009

Rational Advice on ‘Carbon Act’ Censored
ON Friday President Barrack Obama praised the House of Representatives for passing the ‘Clean Energy and Security Act’. Everyone agrees that it’s far reaching legislation, and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made mention of the event as a reason for Australia to hurry-up with its own emissions trading laws.

The US Environment Protection Agency had one of its employees, Alan Carlin, critique the supporting technical documentation for the legislation. Mr Carlin’s report advised that the scientific hypothesis on which the draft legislation is based is seriously flawed.

Reason clouded by carbon
Scientists need to remain open to competing views and avoid being locked into tunnel vision on carbon emissions.Feature - Peter Schwerdtfeger - posted 29/6/2009

The 'green' bandwagon: skin-deep and paper-thin?
When Miranda Kerr bared all for the animals it generated plenty of free publicity for 'Rolling Stone' magazine.Media - Tim Wallace - posted 29/6/2009

Ranking the CPRS: a one-model beauty contest
Why would Australia unilaterally tax its exports, and effectively subsidise its imports, for no global carbon emissions reduction? Environment - Geoff Carmody - posted 29/6/2009

The return of the political wedgie: is this the Greens' GST moment?
The Rudd Government’s revised climate change legislation is an atomic-sized double wedgie.Domestic Politics - Reece Kirwin - posted 29/6/2009

Hasten slowly into renewable energy
The improvement to renewable energy technology continues: the longer the transition takes, the better the outcome.Science & Technology - Martin Nicholson - posted 26/6/2009