As I mentioned here, Andrew Norton’s NIMBY watch was a fantastic resource in the leadup to the release of the CPRS. Read more »
As I mentioned here, Andrew Norton’s NIMBY watch was a fantastic resource in the leadup to the release of the CPRS. Read more »
The big questions for those in Poznan are those around financing. In what ways do existing instruments need reform? What novel measures could be devised to reign in emissions growth in areas like air and sea transport? Read more »
SMH: Laptops in schools will be antisocial
The State Government will give 197,000 senior public high school students a mini laptop next year. It will have wireless but no access to Facebook and MySpace.
The Minister for Education, Verity Firth, said the Government would prevent access to the social networking sites, and other sites, even when the laptops were used at home.
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Kevin Rudd will be unveiling the most significant structural reform since the 1980s and 1990s when Australia’s economy was opened up. Two major announcements so far: the compensation package for households used from the permit allocation revenue and a fast-tracking of the ‘Renewable Energy Fund’ (which includes CCS, geothermal, solar and wind). The centrepiece is of course the Carbon Pollution Allocation Scheme. Read more »
I must confess I’d never heard of it, but the concept is simple. Take some liquid ammonia and heat it with the warm surface water in the sea. The expanding gaseous ammonia drives a turbine, generating electricity. Then cool the ammonia back into liquid form using water pumped up from the cool depths of the ocean. Repeat ad infinitum.
SPECIAL commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed a massive dose of IT to fix NSW’s troubled public hospitals, and recommended a watchdog oversee e-health.
He has demanded the provision of critical infrastructure, hospital and community information systems and a statewide e-health record system within four years - not the present eight to 15 year timeframe for completion.
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