Includes environment, peace and green news from around the world. http://enviro.org.au/enews.asp Environment Society of Australia 2005 en-us Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:15:58 +1000 Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:01:44 +1000 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com http://enviro.org.au/images/logoenviro.gif http://enviro.org.au/enews.asp 161 88 Farmers could help produce cooler temperatures and limit global warming if they grow crop varieties that reflect more sunlight into space, British researchers said on Thursday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=949 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 This war http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=948 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Think hardcore environmentalism requires living like a monk? Not if you ask Dave Chameides, a steadicam operator living in L.A. who collected all his trash for a year and blogged about the project. Dave created less trash in all of 2008 than an average American family throws out in a week. And more impressively, he achieved this eco-feat while drinking beer and eating potato chips. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=947 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 At least 27 children in a village in southeastern Nigeria have died from gastroenteritis after drinking contaminated water from a communal pool, the local health commissioner said Wednesday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=950 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 An ancient underground water basin the size of Libya holds the key to Australia avoiding a water crisis as climate change bites the drought-hit nation. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=946 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 A plan to build the United States' first offshore wind farm took another step forward on Tuesday, after the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=945 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 THE world's first cargo ship partly propelled by solar power http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=944 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 THE national climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, has damned the Rudd Government's carbon policy as a threat to the environment, the national budget and global prosperity. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=943 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Researchers and officials concerned about global warming have focused on oil usage, but scientists on Wednesday said liquefied coal could have a greater affect on global climate change. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=942 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe must resign or be sent to The Hague for the "gross violations" he has committed, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=941 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 UNPUBLISHED figures show that nearly 4000 children under the age of 10 were prescribed anti-depressants last financial year, including 553 children under five and 48 babies. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=940 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Northrop Grumman Corp, a top Pentagon supplier, urged President-elect Barack Obama on Friday to lead a drive harnessing technology, much of it developed for national defense, to cope with global climate change. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=939 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Barack Obama's pledge to work to reduce emissions sharply by 2020 is a "huge signal" of encouragement to countries negotiating a new climate pact, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Wednesday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=937 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 San Francisco Bay Area cities promised to build the electric car capital of the United States, announcing a plan Thursday to work with start-up Better Place to put battery-powered autos on the road in 2012. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=936 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Environmental groups are calling on local governments to shut beaches after storms like those seen in Brisbane in the last week due to storm water pollution. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=938 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Baffle Creek is one of the last remaining near pristine river systems in SE Qld and as such should be a candidate for 'Wild Rivers' legislative protection. Yet a dam on this beautiful river is being considered to supply Gladstone industry with water. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=935 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Air New Zealand will make its first commercial flight using biofuels next month as it looks to cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions, the national carrier said on Wednesday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=934 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 THE Federal Government will spend $6 million on a whale research program which it hopes will debunk Japan's claims that whales need to be killed in order to be studied. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=933 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Thousands of protesters took part in Walk Against Warming in Sydney on Saturday, demanding the Federal Government set strict emission targets when it designs its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=932 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Carbon emissions are rising so fast that the world has no chance of hitting climate targets, says Australian economist http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=931 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Cycling for Sustainability is currently preparing for its forthcoming five-week bicycle tour, which will see 17 tour members pedal from Brisbane to Newcastle (15 November 22 December 2008) visiting schools to engage youth and raise awareness about environmental sustainability and social justice issues. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=930 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Keri James and daughter Clover (6) have embarked on an epic 'Walk Against woodchips' from Canberra to Tasmania. They will draw community attention to the continuing destructive practice of woodchipping native forests as they pass the Eden woodchip mill on their way to the Gunns proposed pulp mill site in the Tamar valley (Tasmania). They passed through Bairnsdale on the 26th of October and reach Traralgon on the 6th of November. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=929 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Within just four years, most Australians will be able to drive an electric car and recharge it at special plug-in points at home, the office or shopping centres. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=928 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 The US Interior Department said on Wednesday it would make more than 190 million acres of federal lands in 11 western states and Alaska available to energy companies to develop geothermal energy resources for generating electricity. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=927 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Australian university students with ideas about sustainable energy solutions are being urged to share their earth-saving suggestions with the United Nations. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=923 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 The federal opposition says it will take on the fight to stop the controversial Traveston Crossing Dam proposed on the Mary River, near Gympie in south-east Queensland. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=926 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 If the United States focused on curbing climate change as soon as a new president took office -- or sooner -- it could help pull the world from the financial brink, environmental policy experts told Reuters. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=925 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 AMID the fanfare of Ross Garnaut's report on a national response to climate change, the Green Building Council of Australia has unveiled a rating tool for the commercial property sector. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=924 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 The world must act quickly if it is to brake an unprecedented die off of the Earth's animal and plant life that could have dire consequences for humans as well, top conservationists warned on Sunday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=920 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 With a view to mitigate the ongoing climate change Prince Charles of UK appealed the Indian farmers to join the global organic club. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=922 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Climate change threatens Australia's A$2.1 billion (US$1.6 billion) commercial fishing and aquaculture industry, but may create new wild fisheries as tropical marine species move south as sea temperatures rise. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=921 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 PARENTS need to be reminded to kiss, cuddle and talk to their babies to help prevent children growing up with developmental delays and emotional disorders, the NSW Government said. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=919 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 I was water-skiing with my children in a light drizzle off Hyannis, Mass., last month when a sudden, fierce storm plunged us into a melee of towering waves, raking rain, painful hail and midday darkness broken by blinding flashes of lightning. As I hurried to get my children out of the water and back to the dock, I shouted over the roaring wind, "This is some kind of tornado." http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=918 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Can you imagine what would happen if Australian scientists discovered 100 new species of whales and dolphins in our seas? The wires would be buzzing with the news. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=917 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Every year the average Brisbane house receives about 200 thousand litres of rain every year, most of which is piped to the ocean in storm runoff. Over 200 thousand litres is then pumped to the same house from central dams sometimes hundreds of kilometres away, only to be used and over 150,000 litres of sewage is once more pumped out to the ocean. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=916 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Contrary to 40 years of conventional wisdom, a new analysis published in the journal Nature suggests that old growth forests are usually "carbon sinks" - they continue to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change for centuries. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=915 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 WHEN you have changed all the light bulbs, turned off all the appliances, sold the car, bought a bicycle and transferred to GreenPower, it may seem hard to reduce that carbon footprint even further. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=914 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Carla Grossetti talks to the entertainer Deni Hines about her passions and guilts. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=913 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Some think vegetarianism a lifestyle choice but one author says there are good environmental reasons for it, writes Sherrill Nixon. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=912 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 A security incident has occurred at a French nuclear site already under scrutiny because of a series of safety scares over the summer, France's ASN nuclear safety authority said on Monday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=911 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Australia's military was accused on Tuesday of opening the gates to an invasion force of cane toad pests when it led international peacekeepers into East Timor to end a pro-Indonesia militia slaughter there in 1999. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=910 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=909 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 In Vernor Vinges version of Southern California in 2025, there is a school named Fairmont High with the motto, Trying hard not to become obsolete. It may not sound inspiring, but to the many fans of Dr. Vinge, this is a most ambitious — and perhaps unattainable — goal for any member of our species. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=906 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Queensland premier Anna Bligh has killed off a controversial $14 billion shale oil project in north Queensland. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=908 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 On September 20, peace activists in the US will mobilize to knock on a million doors in communities across the country. Our mission is to ask our friends and neighbors to contact Congress to bring about a swift and responsible end to U.S. military involvement in Iraq. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=907 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Nail polish and pizza ovens will help provide cheap, clean energy to the world's poor if Nicole Kuepper has her way. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=905 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Olympic host Beijing enjoyed its cleanest air in 10 years this month and will adopt strict new measures to ensure its notorious smog does not return, a top environment official said on Tuesday. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=904 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000 Google Inc Tuesday said it would invest more than US$10 million in an emerging geothermal energy technology as part of its effort to lower the cost of electricity from renewable sources. http://enviro.org.au/enews-description.asp?id=903 http://enviro.org.au/forum/default.asp Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:47:27 +1000