The Environment Show

The key issues in the Gunns Pulp Mill controversy, as discussed with Sean Cadman from The Wilderness Society.
Late last year the Australian government gave the go-ahead to building what will be one of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest pulp mills. The Gunns Pulp Miill is planned for the state of Tasmania, the scene of many [...]

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How do we go about reducing our carbon emissions? Increasingly we’re hearing about carbon trading, but what exactly is carbon trading, aren’t there schemes running already, do they work, and what’s the best configuration for Australia?
Phil Stubbs spoke to Matt Dever from Emit Environmental Brokers to find out.
For a fuller explanation, I’ve added this link [...]

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Above is a link to a great video on YouTube. It provides a good, simple explanation of how and why old-fashioned commerce is damaging the planet. (Part 1 is first up. Click on the ‘menu’ to bring up the other parts after that. Each is a few minutes long.)
What’s the answer? Bring on the [...]

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George Bush may have refused to sign up to emissions targets set by the Kyoto Protocol and been a reluctant partner at the recent Bali climate change conference, but in his home state of Texas, local authorites are taking matters into their own hands and getting on with the job of trying to meet the [...]

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