Australia was the setting and location for On The Beach, Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film of the novel by Nevil Shute about a post-nuclear-war world. Ava Gardner famously said of Melbourne that she could not think of a better place to make a movie about the end of the world.
Well, the [...]

Australia will soon be building a giant 1000 Megawatt wind farm in the New South Wales province that will be capable of powering 400,000 homes. This comes as part of its plan to hit the target of “generating 15 per cent of its energy needs from “low polluting” sources by 2020″, according to The Register. [...]

Australian airlines are launching an emission offset scheme to allow all its clients to pay to offset their carbon footprints, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Travelers will be told the cost of offsetting their flight at time of booking and be given the chance to pay for it. It is the first country in [...]

Following the blog about how the carbon offset industry in the Australian state New South Wales has bloomed in recent months, a new report in the Sydney Morning Herald tells how one of the biggest eco-friendly companies - Easy Being Green, has gone out of business, laying off 150 employees and 100 contractors following the [...]

Any regulated scheme will generate anomalies. One has just come to light in New South Australia, where the Snowy River Hydro-Electric Power Generating Company has received received financial rewards for switching to gas-fired power generation, even though this has increased the company’s carbon emissions. The problem arises because of what they switched from: [...]