Climate Tasmania

Hydro power was a good idea back then, and it still is, as Nigel Tomlin is showing. [15 May 2012 | Peter Boyer]
It seemed like a pretty good idea at the time. In 1878 the world’s first hydro-electric plant near Rothbury, England, started producing power, and here in the Antipodes were all these rivers cascading [...]

A Hobart event this Saturday will be a reminder that it’s getting harder by the year to take effective action on our carbon emissions. [1 May 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Since time immemorial, using whatever intellectual tools are available to them, people have struggled to make sense of what they see around them.
At first we put [...]

We lionise people of action, but they don’t always deliver what’s needed. [24 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
It’s a funny thing that while our waistlines expand along with our aversion to exercise, we seem to be hearing and talking more than ever about the tough guy, the no-fat, no-nonsense, hard-working pioneer who gets things done.
Our [...]