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GM Food: The People versus Victoria By: Katherine Wilson Wednesday 13 June 2007 NewMatilda.com When Sydney Greenpeace staffers John Hepburn and Louise Sales took the train to Melbourne to meet a small group of campaigners last weekend, things were looking shaky. The group had learned that the Victorian Government intended to overturn bans on genetically manipulated (GM) food Continue Reading →
Sophie Black from Crikey writes:
On the 3rd of May, a group representing around 100 farmers from NSW and Queensland going by the august title The Commonwealth Property Protection Association, released a strident two-page advertisement in The Land newspaper which included an invoice for 10.5 billion dollars.
Robots have been roaming the streets of Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the machines are carrying guns.
After years of development, three "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system" (SWORDS) robots have deployed to Iraq, armed with M249 machine guns. The ‘bots "haven’t fired their weapons yet," Michael Zecca, the SWORDS program manager, tells DANGER ROOM. "But that’ll be happening soon."
The SWORDS — modified versions of bomb-disposal robots used throughout Iraq — were first declared ready for duty back in 2004. But concerns about safety kept the robots from being sent over the the battlefield. The machines had a tendency to spin out of control from time to time. That was an annoyance during ordnance-handling missions; no one wanted to contemplate the consequences during a firefight.
US President George W Bush’s planned new summit on tackling climate change is an advance towards a meaningful, common approach to the problem, says the federal government.
Mr Bush has announced he has invited the world’s major polluters, including Australia, to a September 27-28 conference to set long-term goals on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Mr Bush has asked Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and South Korea in separate letters to send representatives to Washington for the meeting and has also invited delegations from Europe.
Reporting by Roddy Scheer Industrial giant General Electric (GE) last week introduced a new credit card that encourages consumers to offset the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their spending through the purchase of carbon offsets with reward points. The GE Money Earth Rewards Platinum MasterCard allows cardholders to put a one percent cash rebate on Continue Reading →
The Victorian desalination plant would be carbon-neutral, said Kaye Darveniza, State Labor member for Northern Victoria, (18/7/007), and renewable energy will be purchased run the Victorian water desalination plant.
Carbon-neutral plant: "The desalination plant, which will be in the Wonthaggi area, will cost some $3.1 billion and will be in operation by 2011. This will be one of the largest desalination plants in the world. Sufficient renewable energy will be purchased to offset the anticipated needs – some 90 megawatts of electricity. This plant will be carbon neutral, which is very significant when you think about the fact that we are in climate change and we need to take the amount of greenhouse gases and energy that we are using into consideration with any of the infrastructure projects we are putting in place.