Food security plan essential for the national interest

As TV programs from Masterchef to Food Safari show, we Australians love our food. But many of us, including our governments, are complacent about where it is grown and who produces it. While people discuss the threat of obesity in the suburbs and in the seat of power, nobody talks about the threat of global food scarcity.

PM told to slow down on climate

LABOR’S closest business adviser, Heather Ridout, has warned Julia Gillard to slow down as the PM prepares to rush out a climate change policy.

Prosperity without growth?

So much of the analysis of how we respond to climate change assumes that economic growth and emissions reduction are compatible goals

Call for tighter review of IPCC data

THE Australian scientist who compiled a disputed UN report on climate change is pushing for a more rigorous review of data.

The science of denial

From climate change to evolution, New Scientist is running a great series of special reports into denialism: how it works, how it spreads, how companies manufacture it, and why it’s so hard to fight.

Asia Pacific Greens Network Congress – Taiwan

On the weekend of 30 April-2 May 2010, Bob attended the second ever Asia Pacific Greens Network Congress, hosted by the Green Party Taiwan. The theme of the Congress was “Fair Share”. The small Taiwan Green Party managed a huge effort to successfully organise this international conference.