Category: Sustainable Settlement and Agriculture
The Generator is founded on the simple premise that we should leave the world in better condition than we found it. The news items in this category outline the attempts people have made to do this. They are mainly concerned with our food supply and settlement patterns. The impact that the human race has on the planet.
admin /30 June, 2010
Media release – 30 June 2010 *NSW state poll: Greens on 16 per cent * Commenting on today’s Newspoll for NSW that has the Greens vote on 16 percent, Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said the results were encouraging and put theparty on track to win a lower house seat in the 2011 state election. “This Continue Reading →
admin /29 June, 2010
NB THE ONLY TRUE POLL IS ON ELECTION DAYShock poll as Labor support slides Yahoo!7 June 29, 2010, 5:57 pm 108 Comments Related Links Gallery: The rise of Julia Gillard Just five days into the job, Julia Gillard’s honeymoon appears to be over, with the new Prime Minister scoring her first shock opinion poll. Continue Reading →
admin /29 June, 2010
Fear and loathing of Rudd was his own doing
THE former PM was an election liability who won himself no friends in Canberra, says Graham Richardson.
YOU didn’t need a poll to know this tax was going down like a shower of the proverbial. Everybody from Julia Gillard down told Kevin Rudd the resource super profits tax was killing him and the government. But he wouldn’t listen. He never listened. This genius actually believed he was the font of all wisdom.
admin /28 June, 2010
Eiris review names Britain as ‘dirty man of Europe’
Survey of Europe’s top 300 companies reveals UK as worst offender in terms of corporate impact on global warming
Protesters in New Orleans target BP over the oil spill from its drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Britain is being accused of being the “dirty man of Europe” after new research showed that, of the world’s top 300 companies, more than half of those most engaged in carbon-polluting sectors were based in the UK.
A review of Europe’s top 300 companies by the ethical investment consultant Eiris found that the greatest proportion of those with “very high impact” in relation to global warming came from the UK, more than double the number from any other country.
admin /28 June, 2010
BP oil spill reaches another US state
Updated 7 hours 24 minutes ago
Oil had previously only come ashore in Alabama, Florida and the hardest hit state, Louisiana. (US Coast Guard: Petty Officer 3rd Class Ann Marie Gorden)
Large patches of thick oil from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill in the United States have washed ashore for the first time in the state of Mississippi.
The news comes as BP raises its spill cost so far to $US2.65 billion ($3 billion), an increase of about $US300 million ($344 million) over the weekend.
Oil had previously only come ashore in Alabama, Florida and the hardest hit state, Louisiana.
Hundreds of globs of brown oil began washing ashore Mississippi tourist beaches at Ocean Springs and fishing hot spots on Sunday.
admin /27 June, 2010
Keneally stands by accused MP
HEATH ASTON
June 27, 2010
“Clerical error”… Wollongong MP Noreen Hay. Photo: Orlando Chiodo
PREMIER Kristina Keneally will not stand aside Noreen Hay after the Wollongong MP became the latest Labor politician to be referred to the corruption watchdog.
Despite paying a big political price for backing disgraced former Penrith MP Karryn Paluzzano when she was investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Ms Keneally said she would again insist on ”due process” for her colleague.
The NSW Electoral Commission confirmed on Friday it had handed a file to the ICAC relating to political donations to Ms Hay, a parliamentary secretary. The matter is believed to relate to $110,000 in electoral donations in 2008 that were not disclosed against official disclosure guidelines.
