Climate change
Don’t mention the emergency?
Climate change or climate emergency? At a Renew Melbourne branch meeting, clinical psychologist and climate activist Jane Morton explained that the language we use is important.
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Policy
Load shedding: coming to your area soon?
Why do grid outages occur, how are they managed and how is rooftop solar changing this? Renew's Andrew Reddaway looks at the issue of load shedding.
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Climate change
Warming of 1.5 degrees: What we do now matters more than ever
We’re running out of time, and what we do now matters more than ever, was the message delivered by Professor Lesley Hughes when she spoke recently about the IPCC 1.5 report at Renew’s Illawarra branch.
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Climate change
Greenhouse gas footprint: What we do and don’t know about gas
Do you want to know the greenhouse footprint of Australian gas? Tim Forcey says, “how would we know?”—because no one is keeping track.
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Climate change
Drawdown: A plan to reverse global warming
Paul Hawken's Drawdown project brings together peer-reviewed science on the “top 100 solutions to climate change”, highlighting the benefits and costs of each. ATA member Tom Hunt met with him recently in Melbourne.
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Solar & batteries
Feeding the grid: solar payments
The ATA’s Keiran Price explains how minimum solar feed-in tariffs are set and helps demystify an intriguing new time-of-day feed-in tariff proposed for Victoria from July 2018.
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Pears Report
Pears Report: Risky business?
Transforming our energy system may prove far less risky than propping up traditional over-built electricity supply, suggests Alan Pears.
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Q&A
Q&A: Understanding carbon trading
Understanding carbon trading. Q&A with Alan Pears.
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Community
Changing the world: Disruptive innovations
With the need for action on climate change getting ever more urgent, Samuel Alexander considers just how far community action can go to help build a more sustainable future.
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