Cochabamba to Cancún: The Rights of Mother Earth
Back in April 17-19 this year Bolivia organised a World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in a university town on the outskirts of Cochabamba. I bring it up now because it was a radical [...]
CPD post: Sukhdev on putting the environment on the balance sheet
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Peter Garrett rejects Traveston Dam
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has declined to give Anna Bligh’s Traveston Dam the tick of approval. Bligh inherited this project from Peter Beattie, and I, and a lot of others, always thought its conception in the first place had [...]
State of the Victorian Environment
The Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability has released an annual report which examines the condition of the Victorian environment. Early media reports note that some sections of Victoria have been “damaged beyond repair”. I am surprised that this is news [...]
China's pollution goes global
We’ll be seeing plenty of China on our TV screens in the next little while, as long they don’t give us too many long shots. No matter how spectacular the Olympic opening ceremony, if we can see it, I think [...]
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