Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
Linking people & redesigning systems
for a healthy future
It's not easy being a power plant manager: Noboby wants to talk about the future of nuclear power at the moment. The memories of the public relations disasters that were the accidents at the Brunsbüttel and Krümmel nuclear power stations—which saw both plants temporarily shut down last June—are still too raw.
AUSTRALIA'S scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions will pour up to $20 billion a year — roughly the annual defence budget — into Federal Government coffers, new modelling shows.
Commissioned by the Climate Institute, a lobby group, it found Canberra will reap at least $400 million in 2011 and between $7.2 billion and $20.6 billion by 2020 if all businesses that emit greenhouse gases are forced to pay.
Judged by its sewers, the world is not doing well, with only three in 10 people now having a connection to a public sewerage system.
With the world's population expanding, a goal of improving sanitation by 2015 is slipping out of reach, despite progress in nations such as China and a few big contracts for firms to build waste treatment plants in cities from La Paz to Rabat.
A 2007 scorecard showed the sanitation goal was likely to be missed by 600 million people worldwide on current trends.
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THE Federal Government has announced a detailed timeline for a national carbon trading scheme which could be up and running by 2010.
The Government will also determine the impact on low-income earners if the cost of energy rises under any scheme.
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said a consultation paper would be released in July and legislation could be drafted by the end of the year.
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The Federal Government plans to open a new carbon sink in the Otways in south-west Victoria.
At a forum in Sydney, the Federal Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, foreshadowed more clean coal pilot projects, which he says are critical to address Australia's two primary concerns of energy security and climate change.
He also announced a move to open up carbon storage areas off-shore.
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One of New Zealand's first carbon credit companies will be launched in Auckland on Monday.
Green Carbon will buy and sell internationally certified carbon credits, and help companies assess their own carbon footprint.
It's designed to help businesses who choose to become carbon neutral and will help give advice on trading carbon credits...
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia will have a carbon emissions trading scheme in place by 2010, under a plan released Monday by the minister for climate change, Penny Wong.
Senator Wong said the national scheme would "constitute the most significant economic and structural reform undertaken in Australia since the trade liberalisation of the 1980s."
Dearly beloved Husband, Dad and Grandpa died peacefully at the Canberra Hospital on Thursday evening March 13th 2008 being held by his wife and daughters. Peter will be greatly missed by Vicky, Belinda, Michelle, Leanne, Joshua and many others. Bless you, we love you and we're so proud of you!
The life of our water man will be celebrated at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Cnr Kings Ave & Blackall St, Barton, ACT at 11am Wed 19th March, followed by light lunch then Norwood Park Crematorium, Sandford St Mitchell 4.30pm.
Zero Waste Australia joins with all those who knew him to mourn the loss of Professor Peter Cullen. President of ZWA, Gerry Gillespie said, "Peter's quiet yet resolute way of tackling the important issues around water in Australia will be sadly missed."
Tributes flow for water expert Cullen
Water experts are paying tribute to Professor Peter Cullen, one of Australia's leaders in the field.
The 65-year-old founding member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists died overnight at his home near Canberra.
A school in Powys is well on its way to its target of producing zero waste as part of a county-wide project.
Pupils at Montgomery Church in Wales School are so enthusiastic about the Powys County Council-run Happy Bin Project, they want to extend it to their own homes and local supermarkets.
Teacher Rachel Tibbott said: “The aim of the project is for the school to produce zero landfill waste...
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