No-show reveals true attitude on climate - National News - National - General - Blue Mountains Gazette

OFFICIALLY, the Coalition position is to ''welcome'' the climate commission's report and provide bipartisan support for its finding that emissions must be reduced this decade.

But only three Coalition MPs managed to attend a packed cross-party forum with commission members in Parliament House yesterday.

Opinion: Every little bit doesn’t really help

this is, to use a cheerful quote from Cambridge physicist David MacKay, “crazy innumerate codswallop.”

MacKay was reacting to a British Conservative party policy document called “Blueprint for a Green Economy” that asserted the following: “The mobile phone charger averages (only) around 1 watt consumption, but if every one of the country’s 25 million mobile phone chargers were left plugged in and switched on they would consume enough electricity to power 66,000 homes for one year.”

Kevin 747 racks up 384,000km

Questions have been raised after it was revealed Kevin Rudd has clocked up 384,000 kilometres in overseas air travel.

Eating Green | QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED

The two day Sustainable Foods Institute was jam packed with over thirty speakers. Here are some highlights:

Anna Lappe, author of: “Climate Change at the End of Your Fork” and co-founder, with her mother, Frances Moore Lappe, of the Small Planet Institute.