Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

Business-as-usual will never end the forest wars

Old habits ensure that the forest divide remains as wide as ever, but it doesn’t have to be like this [3 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Dr Martin Moroni is becoming a prominent face of Forestry Tasmania.
Since his appointment as Forestry Tasmania’s forest carbon scientist in late 2009, he’s spoken to some 2000 people at gatherings [...]

Tasmanian forests: a growing carbon bank?

A forum in Hobart last week revealed the big transformation currently under way in our forest industries. [6 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Ah, the rich tapestry of life! Trees large and small, spaced and crowded. Crops and weeds, fungi and bacteria. Animals and their waste, wriggling worms, teeming maggots, rotting logs, leaf litter, compost. Conception, [...]

Getting down and dirty: soil carbon and the future of farming

Whatever the truth about the soil carbon debate, we have every reason to attend to the health of our rural sector. [6 September 2011 | Peter Boyer]

I had a transformative experience last week from some unexpected sources. Farmers and soil scientists aren’t the first people most of us would look to for insights into [...]