Climate Change 
Is a lick of paint the answer to global warming?(0)
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. Take a look at the new study from University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which says that simply painting roofs on homes and commercial buildings white - to reflect the sun’s rays back out into space rather than absorbing them - could slash US air-conditioning costs by […]
Garnaut Report warns Australia
Australians are facing risks of damaging climate change.
Without strong and early action by Australia and all major economies we are likely to face severe and costly impacts on Australia’s prosperity and enjoyment of life, according to the Garnaut Climate Change Review’s Draft Report,
released today.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra, Professor Ross Garnaut said […]
Brown goes Green with £100 billion plan
Gordon Brown has shown his committment to a renewable energy future with an ambitious £100 billion plan.
The money is planned to come from private investment over the next 12 years, with government incentives paving the way to develop and deploy technologies including tidal, solar and wind power.
In the proposal, the country would extend and raise […]
Greens quash carbon sink tax deduction
A bill before the Australian senate has made unlikely bed fellows of the Australian Green Party, the National Party and the outspoken Senator Bill Heffernan.
The bill gives a full tax deduction for the cost of planting forests as carbon sinks. But Senator Heffernan, the Nationals and the Greens argued passionately in the Senate last night […]