By Kim on April 21, 2010
It was interesting on the news tonight to hear veiled suggestions from airlines that planes should be flying anyway in Europe, despite more volcanic ash being emitted by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Also significant was the description of the volcano as [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Europe, Politics, Science, Sociology, Technology, Transport | Tagged air transport, airlines, Climate change, complexity, Europe, European Union, Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, late modernity, nature, nef, new economics foundation, peak oil, resilience, risk society, Science, Sociology, sustainability, Technology, Transport, Victoria Johnson, volcano |
By Robert Merkel on May 13, 2009
If you judged by press releases, you’d reckon this was the greenest budget ever. And it is indeed good in parts, though not nearly as good as you might think. The first thing to note is that the CPRS targets [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Policy, Politics, Transport | Tagged australian rail track corporation, carbon capture and storage, ccs, coal, Energy, hunter valley, solar thermal, Transport |
By Paul Norton on November 21, 2008
This morning the Queensland Liberal-National Party’s latest television advertisement hit the airwaves, jostling for our attention with Amber Higlett’s early news show on Channel Nine. The ad can also be viewed here. The ad features Laurence Springborg declaring his pride [...]
Posted in Advertising, Authoritarianism, Brisbane, Climate change, Environment, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Transport | Tagged infrastructure, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Nationals, political advertising, political science, political sociology, Queensland politics, Sociology, The Borg, Transport |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 20, 2008
I’m no climatologist, but it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen storms with as much force as we’ve now experienced in Brisbane and South East Queensland three times in four days, most recently about an hour ago, and [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Climate change, Disasters, Government, Life, Photography, Sociology | Tagged 1974 floods, Anna Bligh, bom, Bremer River, Brisbane, bus station, Campbell Newman, climatology, creative commons, creative industries, dangerous winds, extreme weather, flickr, hail, images, infrastructure, inner city bypass, Ipswich, King George Square, meteorology, natural disaster, New Farm, Paddington, Photography, photos, public transport, QUT, radar, Sociology, South East Queensland, storms, subtropical climate, The Gap, TransApex, TransLink, Transport, tunnels, weather |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 12, 2008
It’s great to see CPD Fellow Ben Eltham writing a piece in the Courier-Mail today critiquing Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman’s crazy obsession with tunnels and roads – which, as far as I can tell, is about the only policy [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Politics, Transport | Tagged Ben Eltham, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, Campbell Newman, Centre for Policy Development, CPD, local government, Politics, sustainability, TransApex, Transport |
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