The Living LOHAS 2 report, the latest research publication from the Mobium Group, a Melbourne based consumer research company has predicted $22 billion will be spent in Australia on green products by 2010. The key growth areas where projected spending is likely to go are sustainable building and renovation products, appliances, home wares and household cleaning products. Read full story

With research showing that the Earth is now, on average hotter than anytime during the last 2,000 years the controversial ‘hockey stick graph’ used by the IPCC, has been proven to be accurate. Critics of the graph, which displays temperature variation back around 1,000 years have claimed that because it was developed solely from tree ring data, of which temperature is not the only variable, it was unreliable. Read full story

As the likelihood increases that we are heading towards a global recession, some of the focus has shifted from the climate change/ sustainability agenda towards the current economic turmoil.

Some such as Woodside Boss Don Voelte and opposition emissions trading spokesman Andrew Robb believe that efforts to tackle climate change and the introduction of an emissions trading scheme should now be reprioritised, behind current economic issues. Read full story

A greenhouse gas, many thousands of times as potent as carbon dioxide has been increasing in atmospheric concentration by around 11% per year, in recent times1.Used in the production of silicon wafers and lasers, nitrogen trifluoride as the gas is known, is also used in the production of LCD television and computer screens. Read full story

The global financial turmoil brings with it many exciting opportunities. These will be found as investment shifts away from the traditional short-term focussed, often environmentally degrading options towards longer-term, more intelligent and natural capital conserving initiatives, such as renewable energy and clean technology development. Read full story

Incoming US president Barack Obama has pledged to significantly reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In a videotaped speech, played to a climate change conference containing over 700 representatives from 22 countries, hosted by Governor Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles, Mr Obama labelled this as a “new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change”. Read full story

International Human Rights Day
10th December 2008.

Planning Meeting - A new water campaign for Melbourne
17th December 2008.
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Melbourne Sustainability Drinks
4th February 2009
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Adelaide Sustainability Drinks
18th February 2009
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