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.
Water companies, not farmers, to blame for river pollution Ecologist 15th April, 2010 Household sewage waste rather than farm slurry should be the target of tough pollution measures to reduce phosphorus levels in English rivers, says study Phosphorus from human and household waste, rather than fertiliser run-off from farming, is the main source of Continue Reading →
Climate science moves on while politics stalled Hobart, Thursday 15 April 2010 New reports from the global Argo project, showing how fast the oceansaround Australia are warming, are just the latest new science backing upthe need for urgent and serious action on the climate crisis. “We are relentlessly heating our oceans and atmosphere while politicshas Continue Reading →
Churches must not be allowed to sabotage ethics lessons Media release: 13 April 2010 Moves by the Sydney Anglican church hierarchy to interfere with the development of an ethics-based alternative to religious instruction in public schools could severely disadvantage children from non-believing families, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye (SMH, Tuesday 13 April 2010, p 1, Continue Reading →
Rudd health reforms ‘bizarre’, says Reserve Bank board member Roger Corbett
RESERVE Bank board member Roger Corbett has attacked Kevin Rudd’s hospital reform plan as “bizarre”, and a “formula for disaster”, as the Prime Minister today prepares to release a $739 million injection to aged-care services as a sweetener to break the deadlock with the states.
The former Woolworths chief executive, who chairs the Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney’s west, described the plan as “almost grotesque” and praised Victorian Premier John Brumby and Kristina Keneally of NSW for resisting elements of the blueprint, arguing it would not end the blame game and would add to confusion.
“It’s not going to resolve anything. In fact, it’s conceivably going to significantly worsen the situation,” Mr Corbett told the Seven Network.
Red List of endangered species needs to be tripled, say ecologists Ecologist 9th April, 2010 Current conservation list criticised for being biased towards vertebrates and neglecting most plants, fungi and invertebrates A team of scientists have called for the widely used Red List, compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to be Continue Reading →
Dear NEVILLE,
GetUp members have been fighting the Gunns pulp mill in Tassie for three years – but the next three days could be the most important yet.
Tasmanians awoke today to a surprise: last night Tasmania’s Governor asked Premier David Bartlett to form a new Labor Government, when just 24 hours ago it looked certain that the Liberals would govern. The situation is precarious for the new Government, and for Tasmania’s native forests: the green lungs of Australia.
Over the next few days Labor’s 10 MPs will sit down to decide what their new Government will look like, and whether they’ll stand for a new deal for Tasmania’s forests — or for more of the same polluted politics that led to the approval of Gunns’ pulp mill.
Tasmanian GetUp members are already emailing and calling their MPs — but many are worried: this Government has ignored their voices before. Our campaign against the pulp mill has already proved that when GetUp members across Australia get involved we have a immense impact.