Climate Tasmania

While our political leaders continue to act as if our climate challenge is going to sort itself out, others are taking it more seriously. [31 August 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Our headline-hogging, energy-sapping political extravaganza shows no sign of going away. Meanwhile in the real world — including within Australian communities — many people are getting on [...]

Of all the questions thrown up by Election 2010, there’s none bigger than where Australia is heading on climate change and our growing carbon emissions — and the threat posed by peak oil. [24 August 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Sometimes it takes an outsider to see us as we really are. People like visiting American media specialist [...]

Australia’s recent population surge has attracted attention from some influential quarters. [17 August 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Eons before Jesus and Solomon walked the earth, humans called Australia home. They were here tens of thousands of years before the last ice age held the world in its grip.

Apart from vegetation changes caused by repeated firing of bushland, [...]