Editor's Note: Another contribution from our friends at Alternative Media Group Professor Ross Garnaut’s supplementary report on emission reduction trajectories and targets is even more exciting than it sounds, yet it seems to have been read by very few people who hold strong opinions about its apparent conclusions ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism last month, about Climate Change, Industry, Philosophy & Religion, Politics
Editor's Note: Thanks to our friends at Alternative Media Group for this insightful interview with Tamsmania's Green Senator Christine Milne. Senator Christine Milne is a Green from Tasmania in the Federal Upper House. She has fought all manner of environmental destruction, in particular the industrial consumption of Tasmania ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism last month, about Politics
News has just come in from Japan that leaders of the G8 have agreed in broad terms to aim for a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. At last year’s summit in Germany they agreed to seriously consider a plan to cut greenhouse emissions by 50 per ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in July, about Climate Change, Politics
Due to be released shortly, a book from CSIRO Publishing promises to put the climate change debate in Australia back on track. Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country’s Environment is divided into three categories - ecosystems (desert, marine, etc.), sectors (forestry, fisheries), and cross-sectoral and cross-ecosystem themes.Leading environmental scientists ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in July, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Politics
I’m not much for analysing polls, though I certainly admire the astuteness of those who are able to do so in meaningful ways. Citizen lobby group GetUp has just taken this poll looking at Australian attitudes to the ongoing clusterf&%k that is the Gunns would-be pulp mill project ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in June, about Deforestation, Logging, Politics
In early March Sydney University’s Faculty of Law launched a new multidisciplinary initiative – the Climate Law & Policy Group. In line with recent developments – the UK’s Stern Report in 2006, reevaluation of the Kyoto Protocol during 2007 and Australia’s current review process under Professor Ross Garnaut – the initiative ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in March, about Carbon Trading
Japan's 'Scientific Research' Following the welcome trend of reversing previous intransigence, the Australian Government has successfully floated a measure intended to heavily reduce, if not eliminate, Japan’s exploitation of “scientific research” as a justification for trying to kill close to one thousand whales annually. During an international meeting ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in March, about Environment & Wildlife
Paul Lennon - Premier of Tasmania Apparently not a friend of the forest Tasmania - where blokes are blokes, and trees are nervous. A state where everything is above board, but Royal Commissions -- the highest level of independent inquiry into allegedly corrupt use of authority -- are practically banned. Oh Tassie - thank goodness ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in March, about Environment & Wildlife, Industry, Politics, Weather
A minke whale and her calf, less than a year old. Australians are shocked by these images, and the video clip below, but does the Australian government have the balls to do anything about it? by TypingIsNotActivism The Australian government has just released these pictures of Japanese whaling in the ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in February, about Environment & Wildlife
Editor's Note: In an ideal world, this kind of thing would happen... My first sentence obviously wasn't clear enough, so I'll scratch it and try again.... Coca Cola has not offered refueling assistance, and if they did, should it be accepted? Comments on Reddit were very interesting ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in January, about Environment & Wildlife, Industry
Originally published January 15, 2008 Astounding! Last year around this time, things were really getting dramatic in the Sea Shepherd pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet across Antarctica. Crew missing at sea, shipboard fires, the risk of a pristine environment being chemically decimated, and even one human death as an ... keep reading
Written by TypingIsNot Activism in January, about Environment & Wildlife
