There is a Senate inquiry into the government's Carbon Reduction Pollution Scheme, and it is currently calling for submissions. GetUp has provided a handy link for you to make a submission online. At first I thought 'but I'm not an expert! I can't possibly make a submission to a Senate inquiry!' But then I thought, that doesn't matter. The CEOs of ( Read more... )

Hi guys. Can you do something for me? A lot of you have recently posted that 2008 meme. If you can find 5 minutes to fill that out, I reckon you can find 5 minutes to write to your local member on an issue that will affect all our lives ( Read more... )

Today is World Toilet Day. Did you know that? I confess that I did not, until I read an update from Plan about their Community-Led Total Sanitation approach. I love the roving gangs of kids with whistles to shame people who don't use the toilet ( Read more... )

Some of you may have seen the articles in The Australian and MX yesterday (27/10) about 'carborexia', the terrible new mental illness on the rise in Western society... or something. The term supposedly describes a state in which one is so concerned about one's carbon footprint and impact on the environment that one becomes obsessive and irritates ( Read more... )

So many things to post about, so little time. I want to talk about the Garnaut recommendations, and this awesome book I recently read called 'Self-Made Man' (by Norah Vincent, in the Monash library, go get it if you are interested in the musings of a woman who impersonated a man in various situations and noted how people reacted to her), and the ( Read more... )

Sorry for linking yet another depressing article, but this just boggles me.
Santa Barbara sets up gated parking lots for middle-class homeless people to sleep in their cars

ETA: Also,
The North Pole just became an island

Peak oil and climate change. We live in interesting times.

Bangladesh is drowning because of climate change.

The climate change smokescreenSurprise surprise; big oil funds climate 'skeptic' scientists. Kinda like Big tobacco funded scientists to find no links between nicotine and cancer ( Read more... )

So I've been *headdesking* recently over the whole FuelWatch shemozzle and wondering why our pollies can't see the bleeding obvious: higher petrol prices may be bad news for Aussie Battlers, but they're something we're going to have to get used to. More public transport pls-k-thnx ( Read more... )

( 'America's energy future' )