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Date: 16 October 2022 at 7:23:13 am ACDT
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Post of the Day
Should you install solar panels to beat rising power prices?
Jessica Irvine
If you can afford the upfront cost, the economics of solar power have definitely swung in the direction of being something to seriously consider.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Forestry Workers Day – Kazakhstan
Climate Change
Study reveals new insights into how fast-moving glaciers may contribute to sea level rise
Models of sea level rise based on our understanding of how Earth’s ice sheets respond to a warming atmosphere could be incorrect, a new study has found. This could have significant implications for future predictions of global sea level rise from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
‘Cancel the debt’: Climate protests disrupt World Bank summit
Brett Wilkins
“The Global South must urgently adapt to the climate emergency so that it can protect its people from a crisis they did nothing to cause,” said Extinction Rebellion.
How Not to Save a Planet: Cancel a podcast about climate solutions
Mike Munsell
A tribute to How to Save a Planet and its goal of spurring people to take action on climate.
Fact check: No, teal MP did not spruik fossil fuel trading scheme
A Facebook video features clips from a TV current affairs program to falsely link independent MP Zoe Daniel.
‘We are what we buy’: Is compulsive shopping more common than ever?
Australians have a fast fashion obsession — and companies are using human psychology to keep us on the treadmill.
From black gold to green: Oil majors dig in to Australian energy transition
As Shell announces a new Big Battery and demand-side smart energy project, BP says it has billions of dollars earmarked for investment in Australian decarbonisation.
CEFC backs “hybrid grazing” to cut emissions, deliver carbon credits. But what is it?
CEFC tips $30m into hybrid cattle grazing model targeting sustainable red meat production and tapping into growing demand for carbon credits.
Certainty needed for electric buses: industry
Australia’s bus industry says it is ready to build hundreds of electric buses “from tomorrow”.
Labor’s ideological stubbornness will crush the economy [$]
Piers Akerman
Despite the closure of 60 per cent of current coal power sources in the next eight years, the government thinks all will be tickety-boo. This is a complete and utter fantasy.
Too late to leave for those in Vic’s north
Residents in Shepparton, Orrvale, Kialla West, and Mooroopna in Victoria’s north have been warned it is too late to leave their homes.
Maribyrnong dam ‘would have saved’ hundreds of homes
Flooding experts lobbied the former state Labor government to build the infrastructure project, but it was rejected on environmental grounds.
Flood crisis grows; more evacuation orders are issued
The deadly floods inundating homes in central and northern Victoria are not expected to recede for up to a week.
Albanese to pledge over $2 billion for Victorian infrastructure
Anthony Albanese will pledge $2.57 billion towards Victorian infrastructure in the federal budget, which will mark the final death knell for the controversial East West Link.
New South Wales
Very poor: Sydney’s most polluted swimming spots revealed
One in five swimming spots in NSW had “poor” or “very poor” pollution levels, according to the latest State of the Beaches report.
NSW recycling scheme to expand to include wine and spirit bottles
The state government will expand its container deposit scheme, with the “return and earn” program set to include wine casks and bottles and other large bottles.
Sydney-Newcastle fast rail to get $500m kickstart [$]
As part of a billion-dollar infrastructure plan to make long journeys quicker and safer for Australians, a high-speed rail link along the NSW coastline is getting a funding boost.
Shell JV unveils plan for “one of the biggest” big batteries in NSW
Ampyr Energy and Shell Energy Australia to develop, own and operate 500MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system in NSW Central West Orana REZ.
Queensland
New e-scooter fines announced in Queensland, and they’re ‘designed to hurt’
With new speed limits for e-scooter riders in Queensland on the horizon, the government outlines the fine structure for those doing the wrong thing.
First Nations women work with Americans on burning ambition
In a world shaped by climate change, could cultural burning practices be the key to fighting catastrophic bushfires?
‘Reverse racism’: Line in the sand marks Straddie ‘segregation’ [$]
Changes to camping at one of Stradbroke Island’s most beautiful locations have sparked claims racial segregation is dividing the area.
Tasmania
Authorities warn floodwaters still remain a danger in northern Tasmania, while some residents in the north-west begin the painful process of cleaning up after record rainfall.
Acting premier announces financial support for people displaced by floods
Acting premier Michael Ferguson addressed the Launceston community today on the state of flooding around the North and North-West. He said financial support would be available for those who had been directly displaced by the floods.
Renowned naturalist David Fleay urged authorities to save Tasmanian tigers from extinction before the death of the last-known surviving animal. Then he took matters into his own hands.
Northern Territory
Environmental groups, Indigenous communities sign letter demanding NT government suspend water allocation plans
The Northern Territory government’s management of water could “run rivers dry” and risk the livelihoods of future generations, a traditional owner has said amid a major water conference in Darwin this week.
Albo confirms $125m in Budget for electric buses in Perth [$]
More than $120 million will be included in the Albanese Government’s October Federal Budget to help deliver electric buses to Perth.
WA seeks input on renewable hydrogen target to help kickstart industry
Western Australia calls for input on a target requiring electricity retailers to procure a fixed percentage of electricity fuelled by renewable hydrogen.
Sustainability
Sustainable concrete cuts emissions and uses waste for better buildings
Natural fibers and industrial by-products support stronger construction
Global hunger, carbon emissions could both spike if war limits grain exports
If Russia’s war in Ukraine significantly reduces grain exports, surging prices could worsen food insecurity, with increases up to 4.6% for corn and 7.2% for wheat. That also would have an environmental impact, with carbon emissions rising as additional land is used to grow crops.
UK PM says solar farms are a “blight on the landscape.” Here’s how they benefit wildlife
Liz Truss, the new UK prime minister, isn’t a fan of solar farms. But new evidence suggests they can address more than one of the crises facing the world.
Environment: A bleak, hot future for Australia
Peter Sainsbury
New data confirms Australia’s vulnerability to climate change. Nitrous oxide emissions set to become a climate battleground. Answers to where I’ve been for the last month.
“On The Beach” a haunting evocation of nuclear war
Richard Cullen
Professor Emeritus Richard Falk, from Princeton University, argues that, “nuclear dangers have become more salient than at any time at least in this century”. More than sixty years ago the outstanding novelist, Nevil Shute, accentuated the same profound hazard in his most considered work, “On the Beach”.
Is Greta Thunberg pro-nuclear, or anti-coal? Comments spark debate in Germany
Carolina Kyllmann
Nuclear advocates are energised by Thunberg’s call for Germany to extend the life of its nuclear power fleet rather than reboot coal. They shouldn’t be.
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