Articles tagged: Environment

How can we ensure that Australian mining companies adhere to a set of basic minimum standards when operating overseas? Techa Beaumont more

Anthony Albanese says that avoiding dangerous climate change requires urgent action. Any delay is the equivalent of a footy coach directing their team not to tackle until after halftime. Trapped in the short-term thinking of the election cycle, the federal government is lagging behind the rest of the world. Failure to introduce economic mechanisms now will increase the long-term costs of adjustment to a low carbon economy.
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Noel Child believes beating the crude oil habit may well require ‘cold turkey’ therapy of an immediate and substantial shift to alternative fuels and technologies
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Kevin Childs Examines car sharing, which saves between $3000 and $9000 a year, with members spending between $600 and $1800 each, annually. And compares this with the average private car, which spends most of the time parked, while a shared car can be used by ten to twenty people.
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Geoff Davies argues that one reason you don’t hear the opportunities for energy efficiency being advocated by mainstream economists is apparently that they are generally very ignorant of such practicalities (as well as of human nature, biology and a few other such details).
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