I attended this week the CrunchTime Policy Conference in Sydney put on by leading Progressive ThinkTanks. http://www.crunchtime.org.au/ In the coming blogs, I report on the speakers and organisations. Here LEAN, the Labor Environment Action Network. http://www.lean.net.au/ I had heard of LEAN in NSW and recently in Victoria, but it was the first time to experience [...]

The G-20 summit convening in London on April 2 is preparing to create a quarter trillion dollars of brand new stimulus money to help poor countries battle the global recession. World leaders plan to use a little-known form of global currency to pay the freight, a currency known technically as “Special Drawing Rights” (SDRs) but [...]

Leading climate scientist: ‘democratic process isn’t working’ Protest and direct action could be the only way to tackle soaring carbon emissions, James Hansen, NASA’s Chief Climate Scientist has said. He says that corporate lobbying has undermined democratic attempts to curb carbon pollution. “The democratic process doesn’t quite seem to be working.” Speaking on the eve [...]

Geoff Lazarus points out that the essence of the GLOBAL WARMING problem is that current world Co2 levels are at 360 parts per million. This has already taken us through some of the tipping points that could lead us to an eventual catastrophic and irreversable climate change later this century. What James Hansen-NASA, David Spratt- [...]