Energy Efficiency

Its no accident that there is a world-wide energy shortage; its because its too cheap; by this I mean it doesn’t reflect the environmental impacts of over-use.
With climate change being seen everywhere around the world, resulting in changing weather patterns, many countries are re-evaluating existing generation and looking for ways to reduce infrastructure costs, be [...]

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Several years ago we heard about the plight of koalas – moved to an island to make way for a housing estate in Victoria years before – and the ‘humane culling of same, as they had pro-created more than the surrounding gum trees could feed, leading to starvation.
You would have thought any government with half a [...]

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As far as I am concerned, greed is the motivator for the majority of environmental damage around the world.
We rarely get to see footage of absolutely destroyed natural areas, malnourished people and the terminal illnesses from contamination because corporations like Shell and BHP line the pockets of politicians, making it illegal to film at these [...]

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Last night (Oct 20th) I saw an advertisement where a ‘coal miner’ used various tactics to intimidate, reason with or do a snow-job to convince the public that jobs were at stake by meeting the ETS (emission trading scheme).
What is clearly an initiative by the Coal Industry, they want to only pay for emissions post [...]

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