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NSW’s reshuffle leaves environment a small player in a big pond
ANALYSIS: NSW environment and climate supporters would have been in shock on Tuesday afternoon. Early news had just seeped out that newly re-anointed premier Gladys Berijiklian looked like she’d reneged on the still fresh optimism on climate action she stoked in the weeks before the state election and had demolished the Office of Environment and Heritage.
In the news: Julian Burnside, Lacrosse tower ruling and more…
Another high-profile individual has become worried enough about climate change and other issues to run for parliament, among other developments.
Oxygen files: EU plastics ban, farmers, ocean climate impacts, NT fracking, Canada’s carbon tax
Sipping a Campari and soda through a plastic straw will no longer be on the menu in the European Union in a few year’s time with the EU late last month passing a ban on many single-use plastic products. The ban comes into full effect by 2021. The vote was passed by a landslide, with […]
Climate Action day, Anthony Albanese, fast fashion, Portland Oregon, US Mid-Terms, Renew
The Oxygen Files gives life to stories from around the web on sustainability and the environment you may have missed during the week.
Oxygen files – Thatcher, US data, fracking, Ningaloo Reef and blood bricks
It’s a testament perhaps to how far to the edge of irrational conservatism our own Coalition has shifted when the Iron Lady of British politics, Margaret Thatcher, sounds like she was actually a sensible Australian centrist Greens MP.
OXYGEN FILES – NZ wants climate action now, dodgy honey dodgy products and Monsanto
Let us avert our eyes from the festering mess that is the Australian government’s response to the latest IPCC report for a moment and consider instead the position of our mates in New Zealand. The NZ government has just publicly released the 15,000+ submissions it received on its proposed Zero Carbon Act. A summary of […]
OXYGEN FILES: Warwick Johnston, McKibbin, Wilderness Society, Tim Buckley, Engineers
Feeling a bit like a frog in a heating pot? If not you’re not paying attention, which is the point really. Read a round up of what needs to gain some oxygen this week, from a boom in solar energy to deforestation, rising emissions and why India won’t need so much coal in future.
Vic energy certificates, ASIC unhappy on climate disclosure, dam levels, farmers and worms
Your weekly round up of sustainability news and what it means.
Why Standing Rock could be a Custer moment for fossil fuels
OPINION: Right now in North Dakota, hundreds of Native American people are being shot at with rubber bullets, bombarded with tear gas and blasted by water cannon as they stand on their own sovereign land. It’s the ugly face of fossil fuel fightback, a paramilitary police operation protecting private interests aiming to push the Dakota […]
News from the front desk: Issue No 305 – On Victoria’s susty training wheels and how no car parking can save up to $100,000 a unit
On Victoria’s susty training wheels and how no car parking can save up to $100,000 a unit
Behind the lines: Governments feel the heat of community anger
As the world passed a momentous milestone in March – the average temperature in the northern hemisphere rising two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history – people in Sydney took to the streets to fight against legislation that will hamper their right to protect their land, water, food supply and […]