Earth Hour is on again – tonight 28th March at 8.30pm. The event asks people and businesses to turn off lights and appliances for one hour. It ran for the first time in Sydney only a few years ago. Since then the idea has been picked up by many other major cities around the world.
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The last few days has seen some of the worst fires in Australia’s recorded history. That’s in the South East of the country. Meanwhile in the north we’ve had extensive flooding. Not so well covered in the Australian media has been the snow storms enveloping the Northern hemisphere in places like the [...]

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Check out this video which reminds us how easy it is to make noises about climate change. But what about doing something about it?

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Here’s a Christmas present. Check out the trailer to this interesting documentary about Christmas Lights (and why people do it.)
Video:
Christmas Lights documentary trailer. The film is on the ABC tonight at 10pm.

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Climate crisis, what climate crisis?
Audio:
Have a listen to our Christmas lights podcast. In it we hear from people with ‘over-the-top’ Christmas lights on their houses to find out why they’ve done it.

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A new documentary called ‘The Future Makers’ shows how the answers to our environmental problems are there in nature itself. It includes renewable energy innovations in solar, wave and geothermal. And discusses the application of biomimicry.
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You can view here the The Future Makers documentary trailer.

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2008 – a not so hot year compared to the last few, but ….. it looks like the only way is up! This is the global temperature trend since the industrial revolution.
Maybe we’re so used to hearing about global warming, the 7th warmest year on record doesn’t sound so bad. But remember most of [...]

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The program for this week is on climate change. And specifically the Garnaut Review and where Australia is headed. We have an interview with Professor Ross Garnaut and comments from leading green and business groups. Check out the show live to air on Thursday 17 July at 9am – streamed live at 2ser [...]

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Sea Shepherd tangle with Japanese Whalers in the Antarctic
Paul Watson is a man on a mission. He has played a leading role in alerting the world to what he calls the illegal actvities of Japanese whalers. In 2007 I spoke by satellite phone to Paul in the Antarctic, the day after his ship the Farley [...]

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A compacted view of what commerce is doing to the planet.
Actually, I do have a Commerce degree, and I have worked in the corporate world, but this commercial is pretty good and pretty telling.
But it doesn’t have to be like this. If business worked more like nature (in a cyclical instead of linear way), we’d [...]

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