On how Google and AI could get smarter than smart The Fifth Estate – our view At a Sydney dinner this week, a few people started shooting the breeze, wondering what the bright new world of technology and data mining would bring and how it will change our worlds. As you do.
The case for passive homes as a national standard Nick Lane, Passive Place The energy policies and building standards that govern our homes need to keep us comfortable and limit global warming. Passive house, a rigorous building standard for ultra-low energy buildings, ticks these boxes. 14
Oxygen files: EU plastics ban, farmers, ocean climate impacts, NT fracking, Canada’s carbon tax Willow Aliento | 1 November 2018 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…
Climate Action day, Anthony Albanese, fast fashion, Portland Oregon, US Mid-Terms, Renew Willow Aliento | 25 October 2018 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 Willow Aliento | 17 October 2018 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 Willow Aliento | 11 October 2018 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…
OXYGEN FILES: Warwick Johnston, McKibbin, Wilderness Society, Tim Buckley, Engineers Willow Aliento | 4 October 2018 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 Willow Aliento | 27 September 2018 Your weekly round up of sustainability news and what it means.
Why Standing Rock could be a Custer moment for fossil fuels Willow Aliento | 24 November 2016 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…
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 18 August 2016 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 Lynne Blundell | 23 March 2016 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…
