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Vicki Perrett

Heyfield Sustainable Smart Town - 0 views

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    "Sustainable Smart Towns is a three stage program that Heyfield is showcasing as the first town to become sustainable as a whole community targeting 25% plus of its population."
John Pearce

The next step in King Island's renewable energy journey | Hydro Tasmania - 0 views

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    "The first sod was turned this week for what will soon become home to Australia's largest battery. The battery is an important component of the King Island Renewable Energy Integration Project (KIREIP), which aims to reduce the island's reliance on diesel fuel and increase use of renewable energy to supply the island's power needs."
John Pearce

Story of Change « The Story of Stuff Project - 0 views

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    Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
Vicki Perrett

Energy Rating - Compare Appliances - 0 views

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    "Energy Rating - Compare Appliances"
Vicki Perrett

Energy Rating Website - 0 views

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    "The E3 Program - Improving Our Energy Efficiency"
Vicki Perrett

Your Home Renovator's Guide - 0 views

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    AN INDEPENDENT GUIDE TO IMPROVING YOUR HOME"
Vicki Perrett

Can Wind, Water and Sunlight Power New York by 2050? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Can Wind, Water and Sunlight Power New York by 2050?"
John Pearce

Carbon offsets: saving emissions, but not saving the environment - 0 views

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    "Many Australian consumers and businesses are working on ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. For some, the carbon tax meets their needs: it's designed to specifically motivate changes in behaviour by raising the costs associated with the production of pollution. But others are looking for more direct measures. Do offsets fit the bill?"
Vicki Perrett

How battery storage will change household energy market : Renew Economy - 0 views

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    "The plunging cost of solar PV means that it may now be half the cost of grid-based electricity, according to some industry estimates."
John Pearce

New graph shows unprecedented global warming over past 11,000 years - 0 views

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    "You've likely seen the graph of the Earth's average global temperature over the past 2000 years...it's mostly a straight line until you get to the industrial revolution and then it shoots up. It looks like a hockey stick. In a study published today in Science, that graph has been extended back 11,300 years and you can really see the scope of the abrupt temperature change."
John Pearce

Global warming is epic, long-term study says - CNN.com - 0 views

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    "Global warming has propelled Earth's climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest -- in just one century. A heat spike like this has never happened before, at least not in the last 11,300 years, said climatologist Shaun Marcott, who worked on a new study on global temperatures going back that far."
John Pearce

Large rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "Hopes for 'safe' temperature increase within 2C fade as Hawaii station documents second-greatest emissions increase"
John Pearce

The Angry Summer - Climate Commission - 0 views

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    "The Climate Commission has received questions from the community and the media seeking to understand the influence of climate change on the recent extreme summer weather. Download The Angry Summer. This report provides a summary of the extreme weather of the 2012/13 summer and the influence of climate change on such events."
John Pearce

Yarra Energy Foundation - Enabling zero-carbon communities - 0 views

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    "The Yarra Energy Foundation is a non-profit organisation solely dedicated to making the City of Yarra carbon neutral by 2020."
John Pearce

Yarra Project Zero | Achieving Zero Carbon Living, Learning and Earning by 2020 Yarra P... - 0 views

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    "The Yarra Energy Foundation and The City of Yarra invites everyone who lives, works, studies or volunteers in the City of Yarra to seize power through the Yarra Project Zero to achieve zero carbon living, learning and earning by 2020."
John Pearce

Everybody in the house say yeah - 0 views

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    "In 2008, the City of Yarra set a target to be carbon neutral by 2020. Not just council headquarters - the entire inner-city municipality. But how does a whole district go carbon neutral? It can't rely on government subsidies, or an unforeseen technological breakthrough, says Alex Fearnside, chief executive of Yarra Energy Foundation, the organisation established in 2010 to make it happen."
John Pearce

Could this mean the end of the line for the plastic water bottle? - 0 views

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    "Bottled water producers are facing increasing pressure as the product falls from favour among the industry's most loyal buyers. Figures provided to Fairfax by Roy Morgan Research show that in the 12 months to September last year 30 per cent of 25- to 34-year-olds said they drank bottled water, compared with 36 per cent in 2007. In the 14 to 25 age group, 33 per cent drank bottled water compared with 35 per cent in 2007."
John Pearce

Loss of wild pollinators serious threat to crop yields, study finds | Environment | The... - 0 views

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    "The decline of wild bees and other pollinators may be an even more alarming threat to crop yields than the loss of honeybees, a worldwide study suggests, revealing the irreplaceable contribution of wild insects to global food production."
John Pearce

Macquarie says rooftop solar juggernaut is unstoppable : Renew Economy - 1 views

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    "The fundamental transformation of energy markets brought about by the growing incursions of renewables such as wind and solar has been underlined in a new report by the European energy analysts at Macquarie Group, who have concluded that the plunge in costs for rooftop solar PV has fallen to such an extent that its continued rapid deployment may be unstoppable."
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