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Bad year for doom, gloom
The end of year is perhaps a time to reflect on what was, and offer a word of advice for next year. Global warming has been the number one issue...
It's time to replace Kyoto
The Kyoto Agreement controlling carbon dioxide emissions is in its death throes. It is dying under its own weight of hype, hypocrisy and flaws. The...
Facts, before Commitment, Mr Iemma
A couple of weeks ago, NSW Premier, Morris Iemma, announced "the biggest environmental spending package in NSW history". A highlight of the package...
Costly harvest of ignorant GM campaign
The organic food market is growing and according to some studies this demand is being driven by increasing consumer resistance to genetically...
Native Vegetation - Who's the example?
Jeff Angel from the Total Environment Centre suggests that with the introduction of the new regulations under the NSW Native Vegetation Act 2003, a...
Let's be smart on genetic crops
CSIRO has scrapped its $5 million project to develop a genetically modified pea because it produced an allergic reaction in trials on mice,...
Why organics should give GM a go
My brother, Jim, lives in Cairns. When he came to Brisbane for Christmas last year I asked him to bring a large tub of yoghurt. It is not that you...
Protecting feta won't make it betta
Last week the European Court of Justice ruled that only Greeks in Greece make feta and all other feta makers are fakes. Now this may sound like...
Jared Diamond's gated community of the mind
According to Californian professor and Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond, the reason the Maya civilisation failed is because the elites...
Graziers must lift water game
Out on the Macquarie Marshes, downstream of Warren, graziers have a saying: Fat ducks mean fat cattle. Last week, NSW Environment Minister, Bob...