Wonder & enchantment: ‘seeing’ beyond the mundane
Len Puglisi. 4 May 2021 Over a number of years, I’ve come across various writers who have reported events they define as uplifting moments...
Seriously ugly – that’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century.
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The University of Queensland.Lesley Hughes Macquarie University. Imagine, for a moment, a different kind of Australia. One where bushfires on the catastrophic...
More reasons for optimism on climate change than we’ve seen for decades: two climate experts explain.
Gabi Mocatta University of TasmaniaRebecca Harris University of Tasmania It’s unusual for researchers who study our catastrophically changing climate to use the words “optimism”...
Wake up, Mr Morrison: Australia’s slack climate effort leaves our children 10 times more work to do than we have.
Lesley Hughes Macquarie UniversityJohn Hewson Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National UniversityMalte Meinshausen The University of MelbourneWill Steffen Australian National University 30 March...
Go hard, go early, go renewables.
Tim Colebatch. 30 March 2021. Ever the optimist, Ross Garnaut has a plan for Australia’s economic future Change the prime minister, and you change...
The powerful national upside of net-zero emissions.
Nicholas Rowley and James Rydge. 30 March 2021 Major countries and the private sector are embracing net-zero as the growth opportunity of the future....
We are the 1%: the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet.
Alex Baumann Western Sydney University. Samuel Alexander University of Melbourne. Among the many hard truths exposed by COVID-19 is the huge disparity between the...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Some signs of hope.
8 February 202 It has become a cliché : “She/he is a glass-half-full sort of person”, playing out as we enter 2021 after the...
Coalition’s political games don’t mix well with existential threat.
Ian Chubb. 8 February 2021 We could secure a spectacular future for ourselves and help the planet. Instead the federal government dodges the hard...
Richard Holden. Vital signs: a global carbon price could soon be a reality. Australia should prepare.
Richard Holden UNSW 1 December 2020. As well as restoring dignity to the Oval Office, another thing which will definitely change under a Biden...
Giles Parkinson. Super power: here’s how to achieve 100% wind, solar, & storage by 2030.
1 December 2020 A team led by renowned Stanford University futurist Tony Seba says most of the world can transition to 100 percent wind,...