Issue date : Tue 12 February, 2019
Estimated Reading Time : 03 Min 49 Seconds
Number of items : 45
New waste avoidance and resource recovery strategy 2030 launched in WA
Inside Waste
Tue 12 February, 2019
The WA government has released the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Strategy 2030, which aims to guide the state in its transition towards a more sustainable, low-waste circular economy.
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Morrison must break with climate denialists
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 12 February, 2019
Prime Minister Scott Morrison took a big step forward on Monday by saying what most Australians have long been thinking about the link between climate change and the bushfires, droughts and catastrophic floods that have ravaged the country in recent years. Hopefully he will now do something about cutting Australia's carbon emissions, too.
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Millennials Will Save The World
ProBono Australia News
Tue 12 February, 2019
For decades, young people have been told they should be the leaders of tomorrow. But what I’ve learned from my experience at the United Nations is that youth will be the heroes of today.
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Artists tackle climate change, confronting reality in Gaia Hypothesis
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 12 February, 2019
The so-called "Gaia hypothesis" essentially argues that living organisms interact with the broader inorganic environment to create a complex, self-regulating system that enables life on earth to continue.
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Talking Point: Insurance and real estate in firing line as heat records tumbles
The Mercury
Tue 12 February, 2019
LAST week saw the release of the last of the 2018 reports from the institutions that take Earth’s temperature. Their unanimous diagnosis: we are running a high fever, with worse to come.
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Data centres join record number of Australian businesses going carbon neutral
ABC News
Tue 12 February, 2019
If you've been trying to reduce your carbon footprint, you probably haven't thought about the role your selfies could play.
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K&L Gates helps US company get key role in massive Australian solar project
Australasian Lawyer
Tue 12 February, 2019
K&L Gates has helped the Australian subsidiary of an American energy company bag a key role in one of Australia’s largest solar power projects.
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EnergyAustralia to turn charities into mini-power plants
The Age
Tue 12 February, 2019
Electricity company EnergyAustralia is launching a $15 million program to help charities slash their power bills by installing free solar panels and battery systems, turning them into mini-power plants.
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Renewable energy blackouts blaming is ‘wrong and dangerous’
Energy Matters
Tue 12 February, 2019
Blaming renewable energy for power outages is wrong, and worse, potentially dangerous, according to a new report.
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'Great to be a part of it': Canberrans invest $1 million in solar farm
The Canberra Times
Tue 12 February, 2019
Canberrans have invested more than $1 million into the a new community owned solar farm in Majura, according to the company building it.
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Demolishing the arguments against stronger energy performance
The Fifth Estate
Tue 12 February, 2019
In this stifling summer, we’ve just had a welcome breath of fresh air on energy efficiency. Energy ministers from across Australia have approved a set of recommendations to increase minimum standards for energy performance in new buildings.
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Advice from the most romantic Australian animals
Australian Geographic
Tue 12 February, 2019
EACH YEAR, AS Valentine’s Day rolls around, you’re probably left unsure of how exactly you can make this year’s special day as romantic as the year before. Luckily, some of Australia’s most romantic native animals are here to help.
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Understanding South Australia's bad bushfire weather — how it happens and why we can experct the worse is still to come
The Advertiser
Tue 12 February, 2019
Having lived through our hottest-ever day and come through relatively unscathed, there's a feeling among experts that South Australia dodged a bullet — the state didn't go down in flames. We've been fortunate, but our luck won't last.
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Global analysis finds daylight plant respiration over-estimated by 25%
Cosmos
Tue 12 February, 2019
Data from flux towers has implications for ecosystem management – and NASA mission control. Natalie Parletta reports.
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Melting Greenland ponders sand exportation
SBS World News Australia
Tue 12 February, 2019
Greenland could start to export sand in a rare positive spinoff from the global warming melting the island's vast ice sheet and washing large amounts of sediment into the sea, scientists say.
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Toxic algal bloom prevention 'too expensive' for dairy farmers to do on their own
ABC Rural
Tue 12 February, 2019
A month after toxic algal blooms killed up to a million fish in the Murray Darling Basin, farmers say the cost of preventing similar tragedies in West Australian waterways is "too expensive" for them to handle on their own.
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Slowing climate change could reverse drying in the subtropics
The Conversation
Tue 12 February, 2019
As the planet warms, subtropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, including parts of southern Australia and southern Africa, are drying. These trends include major drought events such as Cape Town’s “Day Zero” in 2018.
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Adelaide desalination plant could be used to ease SA's reliance on Murray River Water
The Advertiser
Tue 12 February, 2019
South Australia’s $2.2 billion desalination plant would be used to help River Murray flows, under a plan the State Government will consider.
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Climate change is already affecting your school (more than you think)
The Canberra Times
Tue 12 February, 2019
They wear capes but they understand the true cost of power.
This summer, as thousands of school students across Australia sweat it out in hot classrooms, an elite team of "eco-rangers" will be policing the halls (and teachers) of one Canberra primary school.
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NSW Rural Fire Service declares statewide total fire ban ahead of hot, windy conditions
ABC News
Tue 12 February, 2019
A total fire ban is in place across New South Wales today, with strong winds, low humidity and temperatures in some parts expected to hit 40 degrees Celsius.
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9 NewsStatewide fire ban in place as Sydney braces for 37 degree scorcher
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney braces for hot Tuesday as total fire ban declared for NSW
The Age
The Brisbane Times
The Canberra Times
WAToday
From floods to heatwaves: Severe temperatures set to grip Australia's east coast
Yahoo!7 News
Tue 12 February, 2019
A severe fire warning has been issued for parts of Australia’s east coast, as a brutal heatwave threatens to create even more havoc for flood-ravaged parts of Queensland.
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News.com.au‘Battle of the season’: Searing heat in NSW and Queensland, chilly in Victoria and Tasmania
Unions back next school strike in Australia ahead of 2019 federal election
News.com.au
Mon 11 February, 2019
They were reprimanded for skipping school to protest against climate change, but Australia’s school strikers now want others to join them.
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PM teases more climate and energy policy
SBS World News Australia
Mon 11 February, 2019
Australians can expect more climate change and energy policy from the coalition ahead of the federal election, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says.
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Landmark Rocky Hill ruling could pave the way for more courts to choose climate over coal
The Conversation
Mon 11 February, 2019
On Friday, Chief Judge Brian Preston of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court handed down a landmark judgement confirming a decision to refuse a new open-cut coal mine near Gloucester in the Hunter Valley. The proposed Rocky Hill mine’s contribution to climate change was one of the key reasons cited for refusing the application.
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NSW Greens push for mandatory solar and batteries for all new homes
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mon 11 February, 2019
The bidding war among NSW political parties over solar panels has been joined by the Greens who want photovoltaic systems and batteries to be made compulsory for all new dwellings.
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South Australia gets 50 new grid-scale energy storage proposals
Reneweconomy
Mon 11 February, 2019
The South Australia state government says it has received more than 50 proposals from energy storage developers keen to tap into a new $50 million scheme that will help navigate the local grid as it moves beyond a 50 per cent share of wind and solar and towards 100 per cent.
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Reconsidering having kids because of climate change? You’re not alone
Triple J Hack
Mon 11 February, 2019
One in three women under 30 involved in environmental groups are so worried about climate change and the future of the planet they are reconsidering having kids, according to a new survey.
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We are not doing nearly enough to prevent the impacts of bushfire
The Age
Mon 11 February, 2019
Recovering from bushfires in Victoria costs taxpayers $700 million every year, a cost which is estimated to double by 2050*.
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Global interconnectivity is spreading major risks worldwide
Insurance Business
Mon 11 February, 2019
Worsening economic and political tensions between the world’s superpowers over the coming year, as well as extreme weather and the failure to implement and stick to climate change policies over the coming 10 years are the top threats worrying nearly 1,000 decision-makers from across sectors, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Risks Report 2019.
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Good Beer Co. Supporting Good Doggos With Pale Tail Initiative
B & T
Mon 11 February, 2019
Social enterprise beer company Good Beer Co. has reunited with Brother and Co. to launch its newest beer, Pale Tail.
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Adani launches advertising blitz calling for a 'fair go' on Carmichael mine
The Australian Financial Review
Mon 11 February, 2019
Indian energy giant Adani has launched an advertising blitz calling on the Palaszczuk government to give the company a "fair go" and approve its controversial $2 billion Carmichael mine – a campaign it is willing to run until the federal election in May.
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Toll lauds solar warehousing project
ATN
Mon 11 February, 2019
Transport and logistics giant Toll Group says it is embracing renewable electricity with "one of the largest solar energy projects for the Australian transport industry".
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Australia on track for 50% clean energy by 2025, 100% by 2032: ANU
Ecogeneration
Mon 11 February, 2019
Research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Australia is installing renewable power per person each year faster than any other country, helping it to meet its entire Paris Agreement emissions reduction targets five years early.
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Small-scale rooftop solar installs reach record 159MW in January
Reneweconomy
Mon 11 February, 2019
The boom is small-scale rooftop solar installations has continued into 2019, with total installs for the first month of the year reaching 159.4MW – a record for the month that is typically affected by the summer holiday season.
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ARENA tips nearly $10m into distributed energy projects, pilots
Reneweconomy
Mon 11 February, 2019
Five projects and seven studies aimed at boosting the integration of distributed energy resources on Australia’s grid have won backing from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, as part of a new push to get the most out of behind the meter clean energy technologies including solar, inverters and battery storage.
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Solar wings to debut at Avalon air show
Ecogeneration
Mon 11 February, 2019
Composite wing technology featuring inbuilt solar cells with the ability to triple the flying time of drones will be exhibited for the first time at the Avalon aviation expo this month.
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'Disappearing everywhere': The great extinction happening under our noses
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mon 11 February, 2019
Insect populations are "threatened worldwide", with only resilient species such as urban cockroaches bucking a trend that has significant implications for animals that rely on them, Australian-based researchers say.
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News.com.auRapidly declining insect populations spell ‘catastrophic’ trouble, scientists warn
The Mercury
SBS World News Australia
Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten catastrophic collapse of nature'
Science Alert
A New Mass Extinction Has Started, And Its First Victims Are Disappearing Fast
The New Daily
Insect species are facing worldwide extinction, scientists warn
Regenerative agriculture can make farmers stewards of the land again
The Conversation
Mon 11 February, 2019
For years, “sustainable” has been the buzzword in conversations about agriculture. If farmers and ranchers could slow or stop further damage to land and water, the thinking went, that was good enough. I thought that way too, until I started writing my new book, “One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture.”
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Top 10 things you can do to help conserve Australia’s biodiversity
ABC News
Mon 11 February, 2019
It’s easy being green! Being environmentally responsible doesn’t have to make life difficult. Here are ten ways to do your part:
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Water: underground source for billions could take more than a century to respond fully to climate change
The Conversation
Mon 11 February, 2019
Groundwater is the biggest store of accessible freshwater in the world, providing billions of people with water for drinking and crop irrigation. That’s all despite the fact that most will never see groundwater at its source – it’s stored naturally below ground within the Earth’s pores and cracks.
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Cities turn to desalination for water security, but at what cost?
The Conversation
Mon 11 February, 2019
Removing salts and other impurities from water is really difficult. For thousands of years people, including Aristotle, tried to make fresh water from sea water. In the 21st century, advances in desalination technology mean water authorities in Australia and worldwide can supply bountiful fresh water at the flick of a switch.
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Change the way you wash your hair to help save the environment
The Conversation
Mon 11 February, 2019
When you hear about businesses with a high environmental impact or activities with a high carbon footprint, you are probably more likely to imagine heavy machinery, engines and oil rather than hairdressing. Yet hairdressing, both as a sector and as an individual activity, can have a massive carbon footprint.
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Thirteen of fourteen Upper Hunter air quality monitoring stations record poor air quality
The Newcastle Herald
Mon 11 February, 2019
Upper Hunter doctors are bracing for an influx of patients with respiratory-related illnesses in the next week following a significant decline in air quality on the weekend.
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Hot and windy: Total fire ban declared for ACT on Tuesday
The Canberra Times
Mon 11 February, 2019
A a return to hot conditions and the arrival of strong winds have prompted a total fire ban to be declared across the ACT and much of NSW from midnight Monday.
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Hawaii braces for storm that could bring waves of up to 18 metres
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mon 11 February, 2019
Honolulu: US officials are warning about severe surf and winds in Hawaii as a winter storm hits the state.
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