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- Green Home Building and Ecology in Australia Thu, 25 Oct 12, 7:37amInfo and sites that help with building a sustainable and green home in Australia and useful government agencies to be aware of. Also advice on dealing with architects and builders.
- In crash-test dummy land, we solve teenage girl climate anxiety with $500b in fantasy weather experiments… Thu, 17 Apr 25, 5:05amBy Jo Nova And so we arrive, a nation of people looking at TikTok as they cruise down the freeway This week, our national energy policy is an Agony-Aunt letter — poor Alexa, 21, has been suffering from ‘climate...
- Labor wants the working class to help rich people buy batteries Mon, 7 Apr 25, 5:21amBy Jo Nova In a brave election promise, the Australian Labor Party want poor people to help pay for batteries for rich Australians.
- Even the EU, the motherlode of climate action, backs away from Climate Plans Tue, 1 Apr 25, 5:58amBy Jo Nova The great global carbon back-down continues: The EU wants to keep their target while exploring every possible option not to keep it.
- Aussie Election: A Choice Between Impractical Renewables and Unaffordable Nuclear Sun, 30 Mar 25, 4:00pmDomestic energy policy blunders from politicians on all sides are killing Australia's manufacturing industry.
- Mitsubishi chief tells Labor that Australian car yards are full of EVs people don’t want to buy Tue, 25 Mar 25, 8:56amBy Jo Nova New “emission” rules for cars started in January, but EV sales are falling and manufacturers are starting to panic If the Labor government said it was going to make us pay a $10,000 fee on a fossil...
- Mitsubishi chief tells Labor that Australian car yards are full of EV’s people don’t want to buy Tue, 25 Mar 25, 8:56amBy Jo Nova New “emission” rules for cars started in January, but EV sales are falling and manufacturers are starting to panic If the Labor government said it was going to make us pay a $10,000 fee on a fossil...
- Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia’s Energy Crisis Tue, 4 Feb 25, 9:00pmUnfortunately for British industries enduring the world’s highest energy costs, Miliband is allowing no concessions to his tablets of stone that say we must be willing for all our carbon energy-based industries to either...
- It’s all about the Money: The Blob-Pharma corruption goes all the way to the top and all around the world Fri, 31 Jan 25, 6:48amBy Jo Nova Such is the network of the Blob, even here in the last outpost of Western Civilization, in the city furthest on Earth from Washington DC, The ABC Blob TV news made sure we knew that Robert F Kennedy Jnr was a “headache”...
- Wind vs. Ecology in Australia (Nick Cater reports) Sun, 20 Oct 24, 12:00am“There are signs that we may be reaching peak madness as opposition to cowboy renewable-energy development grows in regional and rural Australia…. Anger about the rampant spread of solar, wind and transmission development...
- Transition hell: Solar plants sit idle for 4 years in NT because of fears they’d make the grid too unstable Fri, 23 Aug 24, 7:07amENI Katherine Solar Farm By Jo Nova The Northern Territory is a test case for renewable energy and it’s a bonfire In 2016, the new Labor Government waved a magic wand and commanded they would be 50% renewable by 2030...
- Aussie EV Ambition Collides with Grid Shortage Reality Fri, 23 Aug 24, 3:00amCan anyone on team green do simple math?
- The Solar Panel cyber threat: Dutch hacker gets into 4 million panels in 150 countries Tue, 20 Aug 24, 5:37amBy Jo Nova What if a few gigawatts of solar power disappeared without a warning or a cloud in the sky? Imagine a hostile force had control of half your national power generation at lunchtime and could just flip a switch to...
- Carbon naughty list: Russia, Australia, USA, export more “climate damage” than any other nations Thu, 15 Aug 24, 7:42amBy Jo Nova It’s something to be proud of: Russia, Australia and USA have the biggest Greenhouse Gas Export footprint on Earth. It’s a bizarrely contrived title though, where we have to ignore domestic emissions...
- Repeating climate denial claims makes them seem more credible Tue, 13 Aug 24, 6:42amBy Jo Nova A group of arty psychologists has accidentally shown how much skeptics can achieve it they just speak up. The small, poorly worded study, done by people who have little understanding of the climate debate, or even...
- Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter Mon, 24 Jun 24, 2:35pmBy Jo Nova It wasn’t supposed to be this cold and windless in Australia For some reason that no climate model can explain, Australia has run out of wind power three months in a row, which means we had to use more gas...