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  • Acid oceans (13 Dec 08)
    The oceans' shifting balance—IHT 12 Dec 08. Most of us understand that what we give off in the form of exhaust—from cars and manufacturing and energy production and burning forests—makes ...
  • Limits to Growth and keeping out of the caves (18 Nov 08)
    In 1972 the seminal book The Limits to Growth by the Club of Rome presented some challenging scenarios for global sustainability based on computer modeling of population food production industrial ...
  • A fair result (25 Oct 08)
    The Greens have a historic result in the ACT picking up the final seat in the wake of the election. The ACT Electoral Commissioner has announced the final result. After ...
  • Red-Green coalition favoured for Canberra (10 Oct 08)
    The opinion polls political pundits and both major parties all agree that after next week's ACT election the Greens are likely to hold the balance of power in the new ...
  • Labor's incompetence is no joy for NSW Liberals (17 Sep 08)
    The New South Wales state government is beyond doubt the least competent in the country. Municipal elections last weekend sent the Labor a stern message with solid swings against the ...
  • Green cars cheaper in Canberra (20 Aug 08)
    Congratulations to the ACT Government which has brought in laws to cut stamp duty on environmentally friendly cars the first of their kind in Australia. Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says ...
  • Canberra Trams? (10 Jul 08)
    I would seem that the ACT Government would like to build a light rail system in Canberra. Transit corridors are being planned to increasing journey-to-work trips utilising walking cycling and ...
  • Why I don't take the bus (19 Jun 08)
    Research publicised today has found that useage of Canberra's buses is limited by perceptions of limited reliability availability and lengthy travel times. Only 10 per cent of Canberra commuters use ...
  • Rubbish! (14 Jun 08)
    It's reported that Canberrans have the distinction of the Australians most wasteful of food. The Territory Government is trying to implement a No Waste Strategy. But a November 2007 kerbside ...
  • Rudd ignores Australian green car technology (11 Jun 08)
    It seems that excessive haste driven by a political need to be seen to be 'doing something' is causing the Rudd Government to make too many simple mistakes. The latest ...
  • End the subsidies (11 Jun 08)
    IHT (9 Jun 08). . . at at last week's UN food summit the world's more-developed nations proved once again that domestic politics trumps both humanitarian concerns and strategic calculations. ...
  • World Environment Day: kicking the CO2 habit (05 Jun 08)
    Thursday 5 June is World Environment Day. Sadly Canberra is a very difficult place in which to kick the CO2 habit. It is Australia's only large city designed and built ...
  • Travel less to eat more (23 May 08)
    An Editorial in Commonweal 85(10) 23 May 08 sums up well the world food situation and what must be done. But will it be done? An 83% rise in food ...
  • Antarctica breaks (29 Mar 08)
    To me this is scary stuff. The scale is huge. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey recently announced that there has been an enormous fracture on the edge of the ...
  • Gardens rescued? (19 Mar 08)
    Last November I wrote of dismay that the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra home to Australia's biggest living collection of native plants is in crisis and was to cut ...
  • McMansions in the bush capital (11 Jan 08)
    The Canberra Times (11 Jan 08) reports data showing that Canberrans are building bigger houses than ever before despite shrinking block sizes and fewer people in each household. Figures compiled ...
  • Too darned hot (04 Jan 08)
    When the climate is getting hotter and rainfall getting lower it's easy to obsess about the weather. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology says that 2007 was Canberra's hottest year on record ...
  • Dam good (24 Dec 07)
    Christmas Day is forecast to be mostly fine but I won't care if it pours rain. It's been a long time since anyone complained about rain. There was 17mm of ...
  • Greens do well (27 Nov 07)
    In the election last Saturday the Australian Greens:achieved over one million votes: the final count will near 1 080 000 compared with 917 000 in 2004;supplanted the coalition National Party ...
  • Whales revenge (27 Nov 07)
    I am signatory no. 464 816 of Patrick Bonello's petition at Whales Revenge seeking a million signatures opposing commercial whaling. Its words are simple and to the point.We the undersigned ...
  • ANU shows independence and gumption on climate research (22 Nov 07)
    Congratulations to the Australian National University and the Australian Capital Territory government which will defy federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull's rejection of its bid to co-host a $50 million national ...
  • Greening the Senate (04 Nov 07)
    In an agreement announced yesterday Labor is to direct its Senate preferences to the Greens in every state and territory. In return the Greens will direct their preferences to Labor ...
  • Barry Jones and the wisdom of Pascal's wager (04 Nov 07)
    In the 1980s former Minister for Science Dr Barry Jones was ridiculed for his Commission for the Future which warned about global warming and climate change. Now Philip Adams rightly ...
  • Watering our national garden (01 Nov 07)
    I am dismayed to read in the Canberra Times (1 Nov 07) that the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra home to Australia's biggest living collection of native plants is ...
  • Kerrie for the Senate (27 Oct 07)
    I'm not usually a busy political actvist -- I simply don't have the time and strength. In the ACT federal election results are usually a foregone conclusion in any case. ...
  • Aussie Anglicans take action on climate change (25 Oct 07)
    Bishop George Browning of Canberra and Goulburn is convenor of the worldwide Anglican Communion Environment Network. Yesterday he told us in the General Synod that the theological response to global ...
  • Grow the trees first (07 Oct 07)
    Opponents of Gunns' pulp mill in northern Tasmania will campaign strongly but we will get no joy as both the Labor party and the government support the mill. The federal ...
  • Yet another year of drought and fire (03 Oct 07)
    This week the Australian Capital Territory celebrates early Spring and the beginning of the official bushfire season with a day of 'total fire ban' which prohibits lighting of fires outdoors. ...
  • Wet turns to dry and dry turns to wet (04 Aug 07)
    A Kenyan friend writes:Even Nairobi has been very cold going as low as eight degrees Celsius and a high of twenty! To us that is unusual. I think all of ...
  • Small target sellout (24 Jul 07)
    It's obvious that Labor is making itself vulnerable when Health Minister Abbott can say something like this (SMH 25 Jul 07)Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says that while the Howard ...
  • Final nail on warming? (12 Jul 07)
    Australia's ABC screened British Channel 4's The Great Global Warming Swindle today. The ABC has a duty to be even-handed in airing controversial issues. Nevertheless it's broadcasting of such a ...
  • Swimming well without water (05 Jul 07)
    Though I didn't bother to see An inconvenient truth because I've already studied the matter fully I respect Al Gore and his campaign on climate change. Now it seems Mr ...
  • Beijing boycott? (29 Jun 07)
    A few seconds of Googling will find a plethora of advocates for a boycott for the Beijing Olympics. Reporters Without Borders are among the more impressive. Reasons for a boycott ...
  • Conservatively green (21 May 07)
    Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Time's lastest listing of the 100 "Most Influential people in the World" because of his environmental credentials. This interests me because Swarzenegger has shown that ...
  • Treasury lack of foresight (15 Feb 07)
    It is astonishing that as it admitted yesterday Australia's Treasury department has no detailed assessment of the economic impact of climate change and considers there to be no urgent need ...
  • Crumpled for the planet (07 Feb 07)
    "We are entering the 'Oh Shit' era of global warming."-- Rolling Stone 3 Nov 05Seriously folks global warming is really really scary. Meanwhile here's a worthy suggestion by Dave Walker ...
  • Sermon-on-the-Mount conservationism (22 Nov 06)
    I have mentioned my admiration for Wendell Berry's poetry. Christianity Today (15 Nov.) has an good article about Berry his life and ideas written by Ragan Sutterfield. Some extracts:Wendell Berry ...
  • Prophet in the Greenhouse (11 Oct 06)
    I am impressed by this speech by Mr Peter Garrett AM MP Member for Kingsford Smith given in Parliament on Monday. (House of Representatives Hansard 9 October pp.48-9). As might ...
  • Hot and scary (28 Sep 06)
    Now this is really scary. "One degree and we're done for" by Fred Pearce New Scientist 2571 27 September 2006 pp. 8-9."Further global warming of 1°C defines a critical threshold. ...
  • Green Left (23 Sep 06)
    In a Guardian online column (22 Sep 06) Peter Thatchell argues that the real radical alternative to Labour in Britain is now the Green Party. The same applies in Australia. ...
  • What matters? (11 Apr 06)
    In "What's Left? The Death of Social Democracy" the latest issue of Quarterly Essay (No. 21 2006) Clive Hamilton Director of the Australia Institute argues for a new form of ...
  • Weiltanga entangled (28 Jan 06)
    Robert Brown v. Forestry Tasmania On 30 May 2005 Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown launched an action against Forestry Tasmania in the Federal Court to attack the presumption of ...
  • Hiding the carbon (24 Jan 06)
    Nicholson's pocket cartoons get it right. Used with permission: Nicholson of The Australian newspaper: www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au ...
  • Forests and free speech (05 Mar 05)
    Gunns Limited the large logger and woodchip exporter is suing twenty defendants including The Wilderness Society five of its staff and fourteen other groups and people one of whom is ...
  • Kyoto law we ought to have (16 Feb 05)
    The Labor Party opposition has introduced a bill into Parliament to force ratification by Australia of the Kyoto Protocol but the Government has blocked debate on it. Here is the ...
  • Getting warm (15 Feb 05)
    The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect on 16 February. Australia and the United States are the only major industrialised countries that have refused to join. We produce the world's highest ...
  • The puzzle of Peter (09 Jun 04)
    As a superb advocate for Australia's environment sometime rager against the machine and President of the Australian Conservation Foundation (he resigned yesterday) why does Dr Peter Garrett AM want to ...
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