On why the net zero all-electric challenge deserves the biggest brains trust we can manage (on 5 August at Flick the Switch) News from the front desk, issue 491: There’s pretty much consensus, in The Fifth Estate’s circles at least, that going all-electric is the most straight-forward way for most buildings to… 5
Why natural ventilation is so hard to come by Russell Hall Natural ventilation, or lack of. The modernist triumph of bare-arse glass for fully airconditioned office buildings has become the ubiquitous answer for high rise residential. Brisbane is now plagued by… 5
On flight shaming and why Alan Joyce needs to chill The Fifth Estate - our view | 15 August 2019 Qantas boss Alan Joyce professes to care about the planet but gets weird about a bit of flight shaming.
On the need for speed and is it just a nasty habit we need to break? The Fifth Estate - our view | 29 August 2019 We’re amazingly quick on the uptake when it comes to some kinds of innovation – air travel for example, which has only been a thing for just under a century. But the cost of close to 100 years of flying has been a whole new source of pollution and carbon emissions.
