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Modern consumption harms environment, health and animal life
Dali Sulejmani-Blackwell
Is ethical nourishment the key for a more prosperous world?
On This Day
Beginning of Vassa (Buddhist Lent)
Birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, b. 1935
Coronavirus Watch
Confirmed cases: 8,449. Deaths: 104
People who like post-apocalyptic films cope better with pandemics, study suggests
Over 300 volunteers were questioned about their viewing habits and mental states
Climate Change
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Environmental convert Michael Shellenberger turns the tables
Chris Kenny
Apart from alerting the world to the fake news of climate hysteria, Michael Shellenberger last week gave us a masterclass in how to deal with jaundiced journalism.
National
‘Irrelevant’: Labor frontbencher says no use focusing on 2030 emissions target
Resources spokesperson Joel Fitzgibbon says a mid-century target of net zero emissions would now be the opposition’s focus
$1 billion waste and recycling plan to transform waste industry
The Morrison Government will commit $190 million to a new Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) that will generate $600 million of recycling investment and drive a billion-dollar transformation of Australia’s waste and recycling capacity.
Ride-share goes electric but Australia slow to get on board
International ride-share giant Lyft has pledged to make 100 per cent of its trips in electric cars by 2030, but the transition is slower for local operators who are struggling to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.
Regional road and rail projects to get $500 million boost to shore up jobs
The federal and state governments have agreed to fast-track infrastructure projects as part of the push to kickstart the economic recovery.
Foreign firms flock to Australian renewable energy [$]
If Infigen’s shareholders sign off on Iberdrola’s $856 million bid, just five of the top 20 renewable energy developers will be owned and operated by Australian companies.
Kevin Rudd reveals his climate hypocrisy [$]
Andrew Bolt
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd once lectured us that global warming put “700,000 homes and businesses around our coastlines” at risk, yet his latest move reeks of hypocrisy, writes.
An Australian republic must inspire and include all
Robert Wood
As social movements build in opposition to authoritarian populism around the world, we have to ask: why is republicanism dead in Australia?
Global report gives Australia an A for coronavirus response but a D on climate
John Thwaites
Australia’s COVID-19 response was bettered only by South Korea and Latvia, according to a new United Nations report. Just don’t ask how we’re doing on climate and sustainability.
Stoking fear a fool’s game in climate change reporting [$]
Chris Mitchell
Once-sober media organisations that distinguished themselves from racy tabloid television and newspapers now prefer panic to accurate and sceptical reporting.
Victoria
Energy giants pitch rival plans for gas import terminal
Viva Energy is pushing its Geelong oil refinery as a better, less environmentally controversial, site.
Billionaire Lindsay Fox in land grab for more Portsea beachfront
The land titles office approved an application for Fox to own a bit of beach in 2013. Now, he wants more.
How suburban rail loop will change your suburb [$]
Thousands of people are being canvassed about how the $50 billion suburban rail loop will reshape their area, with the massive project expected to include megahubs for shopping, work and entertainment.
New South Wales
Green groups call on Bunnings to extend Victorian timber ban to NSW
The plan includes an immediate ban on old-growth forest logging.
Environment groups call on Bunnings to extend to NSW its recent halt to sourcing native timber from Victoria’s state forests.
ACT
How maggots are helping to create a sustainable future
Olympia Yarger
When I started Goterra, I was searching for an alternative livestock feed. Back then, I had been working on the idea of farming insects as a sideline to my main business, producing and raising poultry.
Queensland
Christian soldiers and climate deniers: inside the fight for control of the Queensland LNP
Old and complicated divisions have been exposed in the merged conservative party and there’s a growing distrust of a ‘cabal’ of backroom powerbrokers
Who’s stealing our coal deals with China [$]
Even as businesses celebrate COVID-19 restrictions easing and borders reopening, China is looking elsewhere for its coal – and that could hurt Queensland’s recovery.
South Australia
We’ll go electric if you get us charged [$]
South Australian motorists want to go green and get electric vehicles, an RAA survey has found. But they’re also worried there’ll be nowhere to charge them, and want more stations built.
People power could turn the tide on trams [$]
Adelaide trains and trams are scheduled to be run by a private company from next year. But opponents say if the bus reforms were dropped, so too can the privatisation.
Tasmania
Walker finds tranquil Taroona beach littered with plastic [$]
A morning walk has left one Taroona woman scratching her head after finding tiny polystyrene balls strewn across the entire length of a usually pristine beach.
Northern Territory
New report raises questions on viability of fracking, says Mills [$]
A follow-up report on fracking by the Australia Institute, released on Monday, raises serious questions around the Gunner Government’s plans for a major fracking industry, Territory Alliance Leader Terry Mills says.
Kakadu National Park in crisis as traditional owners revolt against management [$]
Kakadu National Park is in crisis with Aboriginal traditional owners in revolt against the Federal Government’s Parks Australia and declaring no confidence in several members involved in running the park.
Sustainability
Electric cars are surging, but they present their own unique environmental and social problems
Tesla is now the world’s most valuable car manufacturer as shares surge over 400 per cent, but tech companies like Elon Musk’s have big questions to answer over ethically sourced materials.
Fire at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility caused significant damage: spokesman
A fire at Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear facility has caused significant damage that could slow the development of advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium, an Iranian nuclear official said on Sunday.
CRISPR gene editing in human embryos wreaks chromosomal mayhem
Three studies showing large DNA deletions and reshuffling heighten safety concerns about heritable genome editing.
The world-renowned conservationist desperately wants the world to pay attention to what she sees as the greatest threat to humanity’s existence.
Modern consumption harms environment, health and animal life
Dali Sulejmani-Blackwell
Is ethical nourishment the key for a more prosperous world?
When a brain injury shattered my world, I started self-medicating — with nature
Sarah Allely
I suffered a mild traumatic brain injury when I was hit by a car while riding my bike. I was unable to read, write, listen to music or look after my kids. Then I made a discovery that changed my life.
Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway
A planned industrial shipping channel would destroy vital fish habitat at the Lourencão Rocks on the Tocantins River in the Brazilian Amazon, while also likely wrecking traditional fishing livelihoods.
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