Geelong Sustainability

The World Wind Energy Conference is winding up in Bonn, Germany with the special focus this year being 'Community Power - Citizens Power', recognising the power of the community energy model. We are delighted and humbled to have been awarded the prestigious World Wind Energy Award 2012.

Solar subsidies cost German consumers billions of dollars a year and are widely regarded as inefficient. Even environmentalists are concerned that Berlin's focus on solar comes at the detriment of other renewables. But the solar industry has a powerful lobby, and politicians have proven powerless to resist.

This story investigates claims of how Citipower and SP Ausnet used the electricity rules and bureaucracy to turn what should have been a $107 million public investment on an enhancement to the Melbourne CBD electricity network into a $271 million spend.

Watch the TV ad featuring some of Australia's most respected leaders speaking up on why they're proud Australia is tackling climate change.

The Committee for Bellarine is an Incorporated not for profit organisation dedicated to the Bellarine Peninsula Region by pursuing and encouraging a sustainable approach to growth

An article from The Age looking at 5 questions related to the Carbon Tax

Which countries in the world emit the most carbon dioxide? How fast has China overtaken the US to reach the number one position? And why does Gibraltar have such high emissions per person? This interactive guide made for us by Craig Bloodworth of the Information Lab gives you a way to navigate the latest Energy Information Administration data

Britt Gow's VCE Enviro Science blog

Twenty-one coherent major initiatives could together stimulate sufficient reductions by 2020 to bridge the global greenhouse-gas emissions gap.

Coinciding with World Environment Day, the World Bank Group is announcing a new strategy to make sure development doesn't come at the expense of environment.

THE myth that solar power is unreliable because clouds sometimes cover the sun has been dispelled by a world-first report produced by the CSIRO. While clouds or rainy weather drastically reduce the amount of electricity produced by solar panels, intelligent management of the power grid means panels and mirrors should still supply 40 per cent of the nation's energy in the future, the report said.

"I would like to see our renovated Headquarters complex eventually become a globally acclaimed model of efficient use of energy and resources. Beyond New York, the initiative should include the other United Nations headquarters and offices around the globe."

Journeys for Climate Justice aims to establish partnerships between people in Australia (and other developed countries) and the Asia Pacific region to tackle climate change. We aim to address the inequitable impacts of climate change, which fall on peoples who have contributed the least to the problem and have the least resources to deal with them.

We already know that our traditional thermoelectric power sources, namely coal, are having a negative impact on our planet's climate. But, as it turns out, the reverse is also true - research has found that worldwide warming is reducing the amount of cooling water that can be used in coal and nuclear plants, and this is already causing problems for electrical grids in the US and Europe.

Australia has world class renewable energy resources across a range of technologies, from solar and wind through to hot rocks and oceans. We have what it takes to lead the world into a 100% renewable energy future.