keywords: Renewable Energy
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ENVIRONMENT
Rudd is technically correct that the opposition parties stymied his CPRS bills, but the buck stops with his disappointing climate policy leadership. Upon the failure of Australian parliamentary politics, we need now to find the courage to support mass non-violent
public action modelled on Vietnam War protest.
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ENVIRONMENT
In Australia's next federal election, I'll vote One, Zero, Zero — Greens 1, Labor 0, Coalition 0. This is the only way I can fulfil my voter duty, while recording protest at the failure of our major parties to offer real policies on the planet's climate crisis.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 18 December 2009
3 Comments
At conferences like this, an atmosphere of crisis is necessary for final deals to be achieved. Kevin Rudd will not want to define the summit as a failure so, hopefully, his notorious 5 per cent emissions reduction target will be left behind.
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INFORMATION
- Damien Quinnell
- 19 November 2009
Right now, Australian’s elected politicians will decide our fate when
they vote on one of the most important pieces of legislation to come
before the Federal parliament in recent history. All of us will be directly affected by what is about to happen when the
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is re-introduced into Federal
Parliament.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 16 November 2009
6 Comments
My conversion moment came while walking along a busy interstate highway in Spain, crowded with trucks that were passing me every second, blowing me off my feet and filling my lungs with their exhaust gases. I knew then that we cannot go on like this.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Arnold Zable
- 04 November 2009
Observing this unique means of fishing, I realised an alternative intelligence was
at work, born of the islanders'
relationship to the environment. Ironically, this island is one of a growing number facing inundation by rising waters due to climate change.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Greg Foyster
- 28 October 2009
12 Comments
This Friday, proponents of clean renewable energy will gather to try to rally government support for Solar Systems, Australia's world-leading developer of solar energy technology, which went into receivership in September. They face an uphill battle.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Wicks
- 18 September 2009
6 Comments
Some will be concerned by the black and white treatment of climate
change in Tony Kevin's book. There is common
ground now to generate significant policy changes with a focus
on wellbeing, even while the CO2 debate continues to rage.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 16 September 2009
5 Comments
If anyone expected Ross Garnaut to be bitter about the
Government's inadequate response to his 2008 Review, they were wrong.
He is optimistic about the positive public impact of the Review and said climate change denialists are 'grasping at straws'.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ordmerod
- 10 July 2009
2 Comments
This week's release of the new social encyclical Caritas in Veritate expands moral teaching to promote a concept of 'human ecology' that covers both human life and the environment. It would seem that Benedict is not a climate change sceptic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 May 2009
3 Comments
The community is divided over the Government's revised climate change strategy. Australia has the most visible evidence of climate change, which makes it all the more urgent for us to provide leadership on the world stage.
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RELIGION
- Steven Douglas
- 05 March 2009
9 Comments
Catholic and Anglican Churches are relatively recent converts to religious environmentalism. The rhetoric of the Catholic Church on Creation-care remains
largely an optional extra for its organisations; economic and
institutional gains take precedence.
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