On why Jamie Dimon is in our sights The Fifth Estate - our view News from the front desk, issue 464: Right now, while government twiddles its thumbs and minsters glance constantly at their watches waiting for the next holiday, the private sector is doing…
How design of our cities is amplifying urban heat and what to do with it Dr Mittul Vahanvati, RMIT; Dr Adriana Keating, Centre for Urban Research; Helen Cheng Most of the time we discuss climate change as affecting cities and the people who live in them. Less well known is that cities – specifically their planning and design – also create climate change through the urban heat island. Encouragingly, this means that cities can provide climate solutions. Why are we not discussing this?
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.
