Posts Tagged ‘Sustainable’

Anna Bligh still asleep to wake-up call

By • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: News

You really have to wonder what sort of mandate Labor believes it has in Queensland when the travel of its recently re-elected premier is conducted in such a clandestine manner.
Post-poll, Anna Bligh made much of the wake-up call she received and how she realised she was there to govern for all Queenslanders whether they voted [...]



Electricity to power ‘smart grid’

By • May 19th, 2009 • Category: News

The smart network would send its data through the power network

Global electricity networks could become smart grids that can help us monitor and control our energy usage, if plans from net firm Cisco take off.
The giant US firm, whose technology helps underpin the net, is building a two-way link into electricity grids.
Smart grids would [...]



PAGE submission to draft EIS – Executive Summary

By • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Draft EIS, Main Article, Uncategorized

Covering Letter
Powerlines Action Group Eumundi (PAGE) is a community group formed to ensure that the wider community interests are served when considering how to provide energy for sustainable development on the Sunshine Coast.
With this in mind, PAGE wish to work constructively with the Queensland Government and its agencies to deal with the two key issues [...]



Climate change likely to be more devastating than experts predicted, warns top IPCC scientist

By • Feb 17th, 2009 • Category: Featured Articles, News

Without decisive action, global warming in the 21st century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to a leading member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“Go Solar” on Swanbank B smoke stack (with thanks Greenpeace/Shakespeare)
IPCC scientist Chris Field of Stanford University and [...]



Sustainability task a big one

By • Jan 17th, 2009 • Category: News

Sunshine Coast Regional Council – Division nine councillor Vivien Griffin.
COMMENT: Vivien Griffin
As a council, we have set ourselves the goal of being the most sustainable region in Australia. If we are to be serious about this goal, 2009 must be the year we commence that journey in partnership with our communities.
I am confident this council [...]