I've been trying to remember to drink lots of water but it's been interesting - the hotel provides free bottled water at the back of the panel rooms. Isn't that nice? Except that the bottles are half pint bottles - that should be 300ml I guess but the quantity looks smaller than that. Last night I sat on my panel and watched the person next to me ( Read more... )

It's no secret to those around me - at home and at work - that I have been suffering from a pretty chronic case of environmental despair for some time now. I sort of touch on it in counselling but only in so far as I no longer find the work I do as my day job to be rewarding or satisfying and I am making plans for the (medium-term) future that ( Read more... )

I've posted before how I first got interested in the environment and the Greenhouse Effect as it was called back in the early 90s. I was only 14 or 15 and the material I was reading was probably scientifically above my head but what I did take away with me is that what was being predicted was more extreme weather events and bushfires and ( Read more... )

NATIONALS firebrand Barnaby Joyce has launched a fresh attack on emissions trading, drawing parallels between environmentalists and Nazis.

Senator Joyce warned of the rise of "eco-totalitarianism" and said he would not be "goosestepping" along with them.

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Senator Joyce rejected a suggestion he was a climate change denier and drew a ( Read more... )

IF you want to help save the planet from carbon carnage, cut your Google searches, scientists say ( Read more... )

Peter Garrett has approved 13 of the conditions for the go ahead to the Gunns Pulp Mill but has requested detailed impact studies for 3 remaining conditions, related to the marine environment.

The Forest Industries Association of Tasmania (FIAT) said it was disappointed with Mr Garrett's decision ( Read more... )

From news.com.au

POLAR bears might be facing extinction and should be on the US endangered species list, the Bush administration said today, in a move that could see a change in US attitudes on global warming.Um, hello?! Is this thing on?!@?@?@ What the fuck did the stupid Bush adminstration think we were on about then ( Read more... )