Environment
September 26, 2006
Can customers help bring Plug-In Hybrids onto the Market? In San Francisco, the Pacific Gas & Electric company has a vision. It sees its 5 million customers in California pulling their cars into the garage in the evening and plugging […]
September 19, 2006
National Water Initiative lacks urgency & clear direction In March 2006, one year since conducting its first review of infrastructure policy, the Business Council of Australia (BCA) said it had doubts over the ability of the National Water Initiative to […]
September 14, 2006
Best socks ON the planet, best socks FOR the planet help Tassie tourism Tassie’s latest Tourism Talk Newsletter tells how EcoMerino socks have become part of an initiative to raise awareness of Tasmania in North America as a holiday destination. […]
September 8, 2006
TQ: you can donate to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide Tourism Queensland (TQ) reports that a fund has been established in Steve Irwin’s memory, to help continue his conservation work through donations to Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Worldwide Ltd. Unfortunately, incorrect information […]
September 5, 2006
0-60 in 4 seconds: a car with motors in its wheels! A British engineering firm has put together a high-performance hybrid version of BMW’s Mini Cooper. The PML Mini QED has a top speed of 150 mph. It uses a […]
September 4, 2006
110 free family bushwalks in spectacular locations Leah in her latest BYOkids e-news talks about The Great Australian Bushwalk which, on Sunday 10 September, will give ‘new and occasional’ bushwalkers the opportunity to try bushwalking with Australia’s leading community-based bushwalking […]
September 2, 2006
Is Local Government PLANNING for a hotter climate? The Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) says a much hotter climate could be with us sooner than we think and a reader has sent us this link to pass on CANA’s concerns. […]
August 30, 2006
BP (UK) launches a plan to sequester C02 emissions of ‘client motorists’ What exactly is ‘carbon sequestration’? It’s a term describing processes that remove carbon from the atmosphere – intended to help mitigate global warming. A variety of means of […]
August 29, 2006
Could a European building material replace airconditioning here? We say we NEED more power generating capacity BUT we’re wasting energy. Air conditioning installations in Australian homes have increased from 33% in 1994 to 60% in 2005 and the trend is […]
August 22, 2006
New fuel tax bill discourages growth says biodiesel producer The Australian reports that mid August, the Australian Biodiesel Group (ABG), Australia’s largest biodiesel producer, opened our largest biodiesel plant – with an annual capacity of 160 million litres – at […]
August 19, 2006
Grant for guidelines to site wind farms & assess landcsape values The siting of wind farms is a national issue facing many communities yet there are no national guidelines on how to assess landscape values or the potential landscape impacts […]
August 14, 2006
A $1000 Government subsidy for motorists making the LPG change The proposed $1,000 subsidy is expected to apply to all new dedicated or dual fuel LPG vehicles and will cost the Government less than $1 billion a year BUT will […]