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Info and sites that help with building a sustainable and green home in Australia and useful government agencies to be aware of. Also advice on dealing with architects and builders.

Aussie greens are celebrating a reduction in Aussie emissions as a green energy turning point. But other numbers tell a different story.

By Jo Nova The EU Free Trade agreement would Weaponize the Paris Agreement The Labor Party want to sign a deal with the EU which means that future Australian governments won’t be able to drop the Paris Agreement without...

"... As coal and nuclear generation expand ... they may displace domestic renewable energy ..."

Driving Australia’s current trajectory is the mythical claim that so-called renewables – are inherently cheap and that any short‑term pain will give way to lasting price declines.

Neglectful of the economic wreckage that net zero policies have wrought in the U.K. and Germany, economic powerhouse South Korea has declared war on coal and liquified natural gas (LNG) to pursue more aggressive reductions...

There has been little decarbonisation since 2020. Aging, increasingly unreliable coal fired power stations are still the backbone of the electricity supply. The price of energy is inexorably rising.  Australian governments,...

… By Jo Nova It’s all so unfair. They just wanted to save the world and be treated like heroes, but nothing is working out. The CSIRO has suddenly stepped back from promises of a Green Utopia. Only last week the...

The true threat to the people of Timor-Leste is not a slightly warmer world or a few millimeters of sea-level rise; it is economic decline from a lack of affordable, reliable energy like that derived from coal, oil, and natural...

A senior executive of Australia's largest mining company has delivered an ultimatum to our green leaders.

The climate scare is failing fast, but the damage it has done could take a long time and a lot of money to fix.

... making good decisions about Australia’s future requires us to be self-sufficient ...

"This is the thing that happens with renewable energy" - Dubbo Deputy Mayor Philip Toynton.

The National Party’s abandonment of net zero signals broader rebellion. State branches in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia had already rejected the target, pressuring federal leaders.  Even mainstream...

Aussies are more worried their toaster will become self aware than they are worried about climate change.

But at what cost?