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Cause to not celebrate: Kirribilli solar installation marks 10 years of Howard’s climate failure

Does this sound familiar? “The action was taken as a demonstration against the Federal Government’s decision to reject mandatory CO2 targets……”.

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30 years of peaceful direct action

If you’ve ever been in an ancient forest then you’ll know what I mean. Or if you’ve ever been fortunate enough to look a whale straight in the eye, as it majestically sweeps through the ocean. Or if you have children.

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Our climate being swindled

When UK TV’s Channel 4 gave the go-ahead to Martin Durkin for his Great Global Warming Swindle proposal there would have been cheers across the plush Washington offices of numerous industry-funded think tanks.

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Vote to save Paradise Forests

In a few weeks, we will vote for a new parliament and a new government will be formed. We will expect the new government to deal with various outstanding and contentious national development concerns, which the current government has failed to address, forest law enforcement and governance is top on this critical list.

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Abseiling to save forests

Last Monday a colleague and I abseiled off the top of the Crowne Plaza in downtown Port Moresby on the opening day of the International Tropical Timber Organisation’s (ITTO) 42nd committee meeting to unfurl a 8 x 10 metre banner that read “ITTO Stop Forest Destruction”. This is the first time that a protest like this has taken place in Port Moresby.

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An overdue farewell for old King Coal

With other countries profiting from renewable energy industries, why does Australia's government have such a black view of clean energy? By Sven Teske, renewables director, Greenpeace International, published in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, 8 June 2007.

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Japanese perspective on whaling

Project Manager Junichi Sato for the Greenpeace whales campaign in Japan explains the Japanese opinion towards whaling.

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GE arguments drying up

Australian farmers and scientists are tackling the drought without resorting to risky GE crops, explains genetic engineering campaigner, Louise Sales.

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The time to move on from coal is now

The recent release of a report by Citigroup listing Australian companies vulnerable to climate change reveals an inconvenient truth both major parties deny: that dealing with climate change will inevitably mean reducing our reliance on fossil fuels like coal. Not just for domestic power, but as a source of export revenue as other countries begin to develop clean energy.