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Need to make it easier to reach for the medium hanging fruit
Major climate change report released today by the UK and UK Consumer organisations. Here’s my take. 1. People are aware of the problem Climate change is a mainstream consumer issue. Consumers in the...
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Sustainability an “inane fad”? Let’s ride the wave!
Bob Jones describes green building as an “inanity” (stuff.co.nz). “I’m picking this to last about four years with the private sector and a decade with the government,” Jones’ argument goes like this:...
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Q: What is great to see but unfortunately only half green?
A: The Australian Computing Society’s Green ICT Policy The CfS Agenda places a high priority on engaging with professional and industry groups to articulate computing’s response to sustainability....
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Guide does more than paper over cracks
There’s a useful guide out today from Metafore and the The Gagliardi Group . The Paper Consumer’s Guide to Climate Change (pdf) describes the role that paper and its forest-based lifecycle play in the...
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Footprints and longfins
Last night we went to a talk by Metiria Turei about the dramatic collapse in New Zealand’s endemic eel population, the longfin in particular. Metiria showed an outstanding film by students from the...
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Lonnie Thompson conveniently in Dunedin
We’ve been to two Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson talks this week. I was very impressed. The first “Climate change: past present and future” was an overview of their thirty years of...
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Climate Change Unfinished or Too Late?
The second Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson talk this week was a panel discussion titled “Climate Change: Unfinished Business”. Two locals, marine ecologist Steve Wing and geologist Garry...
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Bill McKibben’s 350ppm at 46 South
We had Bill McKibben visiting work yesterday. He gave a good talk and stayed for lunch. Bill has been in Wanaka and started his talk with a compelling story of an experience in Tibet, of glaciers...
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Green energy myths causing paralysis
There is a belief that alternative clean energy sources and technologies will substitute for fossil fuels to meaning we can carry on living like we are now. Dr Susan Krumdieck says this myth is...
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Bet you didn’t know this about the Iron Lady
This week I went to a great talk by Prof Jonathan Boston on the politics of global climate change. Here are some of the slides. I have to confess that his last slide was a surprise to me. While...
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