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For the past five years, the tiny South Pacific nation of Tuvalu, which at no point on its nine atolls is higher than thirteen feet above sea level, has openly discussed plans to file a lawsuit against the United States and Australia at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Tuvalu has also tried [...]
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Outcome of the Budget 2007.
Ok, let me get this straight. Spending for 07/08 on the Environment is 4.3-bil. Spending for 07/08 on Defence is 22-bil. Disproportionate much?
Senator Bob Brown says “Instead of announcing a plan for restructuring Australia’s economy, the Treasurer has announced $50 million for – I presume – fridge magnets on how to reduce energy use [...]
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And it rained all night.
“If you sit in a Tokyo traffic-jam. You can’t help thinking, perhaps this isn’t the best way to proceed.”
And it rained all night and washed the filth away
Down New York airconditioned drains
The click click clack of the heavy black trains
A million engines in neutral.
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Ever since reading The Weather Makers by Australian of the Year, Tim Flannery and watching the documentry, An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore, I’ve had a growing interest on the topic of climate change and global warming.
My view at the moment is simple, all new houses should be made to install “climate friendly” devices, i.e. [...]
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By Sarah Clarke
April 23, 2007 – 6:04AM
A new report commissioned by green groups has found that a 25 per cent renewable energy target by 2020 could create 16,000 new jobs.
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Greenpeace and the Climate Action Network (CAN) commissioned the report.
It found that the introduction of the target would help flight climate [...]
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