2011-08-12 14:58:24
// The Idealog Blog
Fancy cruising around on this not so bad boy but very practical bike? Fashioned sustainably from bamboo, the bike, a finalist in the Australian round of the 2011 James Dyson Award, is the creation of Australian student designer Alexander Vittouris of Monash University.
2011-07-29 11:43:48 // Sustain Team
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BusinessNZ has today released a report looking at how Australia’s newly announced Clean Energy Future Plan (CEFP), and the associated Carbon Price Policy, could impact New Zealand businesses. It’s asking New Zealand approach the CEFP with caution when it comes to comparing it with our own Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
2011-07-26 12:10:05 // Deirdre Robert
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While there has been any number of opinions floating around about the Australian carbon tax, the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance last week launched an advertising campaign against the federal government's proposed carbon tax, carrying the tag-line "carbon tax pain: no climate gain".
2011-07-13 12:02:29 // Deirdre Robert
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While the coal companies might be crying into their mines over Australia’s newly announced carbon tax, others might still be a little confused as to how exactly the new tax will work, or more importantly, how it will impact them. And fair enough too. Good thing then independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation GetUp Australia has created this fancy video to explain it all succinctly.
2009-08-21 09:41:07 // Matt Cooney
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In July 2005, AUT University Professor Sergei Gulyaev and his colleagues spent a series of cold evenings huddled in Karaka, South Auckland, pointing a portable telescope at a plasma disc and black hole 4.5 billion light years away. Their efforts have had a result: New Zealand could be part of the next great scientific adventure.
