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The UK makes positive proposals: Will other Governments, including ours, follow?

I was reading the paper with my breakfast on Saturday and was really encouraged to read a potential breakthrough proposal from the UK Government on Friday. The good news is that the announcement by Gordon Brown, PM of the UK, has a central call for rich Governments to create a $100 billion US a year fund.
This news was a stark but positive contrast to the accounts of the disappointing lack of progress to date in the UN negotiations. In recent blog reports back from June’s UN climate negotiations… Continue

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 1:41pm —

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Can human society evolve to change our economic / environmental way of life to a clean tech base ?

Hi All,

I listened to a very interesting lecture broadcast last week on 'Background Briefing' on ABC Radio National on the overall analysis of climate change crisis and the capacity of and challenge to human society to evolve to change our economic / environmental way of life to a clean tech base etc. The presentation is similar in style of accessibility and dealing with the big ideas as some of Al Gore’s big presentations. See link to MP3 and transcript on the ABC Radio National web site below… Continue

Posted on June 22, 2009 at 11:05am — 1 Comment

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Clean jobs - a key to tackling climate change?

One key challenge we face as a world community is the apparent tension between the economy / jobs and the need to avoid catastrophic climate change. The overwhelming number of scientists (e.g. IPCC etc) tell us that we must avoid a key tipping point leading to catastrophic climate change which is a 2 degree Celsius warming.

I find it encouraging reading articles outlining how a move to a new clean energy economy will create many new jobs.

In today’s AGE (4/5/09) economics writer Ken Davidson e… Continue

Posted on May 4, 2009 at 6:09pm — 2 Comments

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At 1:39am on May 19, 2009, P-Man said…
We can save our economy, when we save our ecology.
And save our kids from getting an apology
We must demand a green collar economy

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