MEDIA RELEASE 13.11.13 What brings together an international sports star, an archdeacon, a wine guru and a financial CEO? Basketballer Lauren Jackson, Archdeacon Peter McLeod-Miller, John Brown of Brown Brothers and WAW Credit Union’s Peter Challis, together with fifty other eminent people from the Border region have signed a joint statement calling for all levels…
When: 1.30-2.30pm Sunday 27 October 2013 Where: Albury Library Museum, Kiewa Street, Albury Meet Greg Foyster and Sophie Chishkovsky as they cycle into town to talk about the new book Changing Gears: A Pedal-Powered Detour from the Rat Race. Changing Gears is a high-spirited adventure book charting Greg Foyster’s remarkable, life-transforming cycling challenge he undertook…
The season of burning is upon us! As we collect firewood for the cold days ahead, we are facing not one but two challenges. While the State government allows us to go into forests and collect dead dry timber, their ritual burning program threatens to beat us to it. The object of this induced bushfire…
A report published this week in Nature Geoscience, reveals a steadily increasing temperature over the last few decades in the Antarctic Peninsula. This has been discovered by looking at the pattern of summer snow melt revealed in an ice-core, which represents conditions over the last 1000 years. Although results from similar recent research on the…
Last week the government released its latest report from the Climate Commission – “The Critical Decade – climate science, risks and responses.” http://climatecommission.gov.au/report/the-critical-decade/ (UPDATE: due to the abolition of he Climate Commission by the Abbot Government, their website is no longer available – copies of the report can still be found online at http://apo.org.au/research/critical-decade-2013-climate-change-science-risks-and-responses.) A useful summary…
IMPACTS OF EXTREME WEATHER ON BORDER – MEDIA RELEASE – 22.2.13 [Submitted by Lizette Salmon] Pigs unable to breed and thousands of local chickens dying; these are just two of the more unusual local consequences of this summer’s extreme heat. “Bushfires, drought, crop losses and heat-related illnesses were consequences of climate change we anticipated in…
There’s a fair bit of talk going on right now around the issue of so-called ‘Carbon Sequestration’ in Soil, and most of it is avoiding the key issue. This of course is that there is only one good long term storage method for Carbon in the ground, invented by mother nature some 250 million years…
Some comments on the Mining Tax from David Macilwain… In a collision of parallel universes – that of the ordinary taxpayer and that of the extraordinary non-taxpayer – the revelation of the new Mining Tax’s pitiful returns coincided with the concealment of Rio Tinto’s extraordinary tax-free profit. The returns to the people’s fund from rattling…
MISLEADING ‘ECONOMIC’ ARGUMENTS We shouldn’t spend more money on renewables etc because Australia has a large deficit Politicians often refuse to spend more $ on pro-environmental actions, arguing it’s too costly and will increase the public deficit, BUT: We have the third lowest debt in the world. Many Australians go into debt to buy a…
Seems to be a dream in the minds of many of those in positions of power and influence both here and overseas.. At the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, Christine Legarde chief of the IMF drew attention to climate change as the ‘biggest economic problem’ faced by the West, a position eagerly adopted and…
Wodonga & Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH) 