Last-minute gifts...

One last post before I take a little break over Christmas! I’m trying to get my last-minute Christmas shopping done, and although I find it easy to buy for my neices and nephew, it’s much more difficult to sort out the grown-ups in my life! Like me, they don’t really need much in the way of new things, but we all like giving and receiving gifts as a way to show our love for each other. One way to deal...

Fresh green links...

Copenhagen was in the news lots this week, although there didn’t seem to be much real action. The most interesting thing to me is that the smaller nations are not quietly sitting on the sidelines the way other leaders would like them to. With Tuvalu leading the way, they’re actively making demands and staging walkouts and giving it their best effort to convince the world that something serious needs to be...

Review: Two Men in a Tinnie...

While I’ve been on holidays, I finally caught up with all the episodes of the ABC TV series Two Men in a Tinnie. It’s the one where John Doyle (more famous from Triple J’s Roy and HG shows) and Professor Tim Flannery take a dinghy down the Murray and Darling Rivers, meeting the people who live and work and play there. I saw a bit of it on tv a few years ago, but have only just now rented the whole thing...

Fresh green links...

Copenhagen is all over the news this week, which I’m glad of. Earlier this year I was worried it wouldn’t be noticed, but it seems like everyone is paying attention! For updates of events as they happen, check out the official COP15 news page. Emissions cuts without a carbon price - doable but expensive - is a comment on Tony Abbott’s plan to solve the climate change problem he doesn’t believe...

Is cap and trade right for us?...

There’s an anti-cap-and-trade video by Annie Leonard doing the rounds. I was looking forward to seeing it, because I’d enjoyed her previous video “The Story of Stuff”. But I was pretty disappointed by “The Story of Cap and Trade”. It had a lot of errors in it, which I trust weren’t deliberate, and didn’t offer any other solution to reducing our whole world’s dependence...

We trust the foxes to take care of the henhouse...

Photo credit: abc.net.au You might remember my previous post about the Gorgon gas development on Barrow Island: it’s a Class A nature reserve and the Gorgon group of oil and gas multinationals reckon they can drill for gas there, store their carbon dioxide under the ground, and not cause any environmental damage. Last week David Gravina linked to an article about the startup of the Gorgon project. WA premier Colin...

Fresh green links...

I started my Christmas holidays this week, so I haven’t actually been tracking all the interesting green news! How about this week you tell me what’s been on your radar? Which are the news stories about the environment that caught your attention, or have you read any good blog posts with green tips lately? I saw this old 1960s Exxon ad over at Grist: Oil! Enough energy to melt glaciers! Funny, in a darkly...

A lesson for the eco-friendly, learned from the Li...

I’ve been following the Liberal party’s meltdown about the emissions trading vote over the last week, mostly by following the #spill tag on Twitter and reading the updates at Larvatus Prodeo. It may end up having important consequences for Australia’s CPRS, but if not, it’s still revealed an interesting fact for those of us who care deeply about making a bright green future for Australia. The whole...

Fresh green links...

It’s been a big week for climate change news: Climate changing faster than predicted - an update from the IPCC has been released, with all indicators showing that things are worse than predicted. It’s interesting to note that when climatologists get it wrong, it’s because they’re being too optimistic, not too pessimistic. Australia’s Chief Scientist Penny Sackett has a really good explanation...

Riding to work: what’s it like?...

Clint going for a ride After thinking so much about transport this week, I’ve been trying to work up the courage to start bike-riding again. I did it a lot when I was about 12, but a few bad experiences in traffic (mostly my own fault!) put me off. But I think it’d be a great way for me to combine travel and exercise, so I’ve been talking to people who already ride a lot. One of these people is my friend...