What’s hot today in green news.
Humans: will they ever get it? Voting Americans are concerned about climate change, yes, but they’re WAY more worried about energy prices. A broad range of opinion surveys conducted in the final months of the 2008 campaign “reaffirm that economic issues — particularly the high cost of energy — far [...]
Eliot Fishman is the Director of the Institute for Sensible Transport, an independent think-tank providing strategic advice on transport and oil vulnerability. Rooted asked Eliot to share his thoughts on Rudd’s infrastructure agenda and what it means for climate and getting around our cities.
As the global economic meltdown slows Australia’s commodity led economy, the [...]
Rooted invited Fergus Hanson, Research Associate at the Lowy Institute, to unpack the surprising findings on climate change from its 2008 Poll.
It can sometimes be hard to interpret Australian attitudes towards climate change. Lowy Institute polling over the years suggested most Australians are very concerned about it and want action. The ALP seemed to tap [...]
While some animals are finding the warming global environment a problem, spiders, apparently, are not. In fact, if this report in the Independent is accurate, it may not be cockroaches who inherit the earth, but British immigrant spiders.
Any arachnophobes should look away now. It has emerged that numerous species of non-indigenous spider, some venomous, are [...]
Saturday’s Canberra Times ran an interesting piece on climate change, equating the problem of carbon pollution with other self-destructive behaviours like smoking or alcoholism. Canberra writer Tony Kevin opined:
Australian society accommodates similar existential contradictions in its response to climate change. Informed Australians know now that this is really happening, that it is caused by dangerously [...]
As very few media outlets reported last week, Australia has a new Chief Scientist. Professor Penny Sackett comes to the role from the ANU where she was Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (2002 – 2007).
According to her CV, Professor Sackett is “a physicist by [...]
Welcome to Rooted, Crikey’s new group environment blog.
Before I explain the purpose of this leafy corner of the Crikey blog network, I would like to honour the talented individuals who will be your guides and interlocutors. It is their great knowledge and generosity that makes this possible, so without further ado, here they are.
Tim Hollo [...]
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