Making Super Sustainable

Some $1.6 trillion is invested in Australia’s superannuation funds. The Climate Institute have released a publication, Climate Smart Super: Understanding Superannuation Climate Risk, with information for superannuants to learn more about their funds are managed and...

Sustaining this is not Sustainable

The 85 richest people on Earth now own the the same amount of financial wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population ~ that is, the same as 3.5Bn people. This stunning finding comes from Oxfam‘s report, Working For the Few, which was published in the lead up...

Returning home to regional Australia

More Australians aged 25-44 are moving from cities to regional areas than vice versa. According to the Regional Australia Institute, ‘returners’ make up a significant pattern in internal migration that often fails to be recognised as a positive – and popular – life...

The Future of Work

Kevin Wheeler from the Future of Talent Institute talks about this rapidly changing world and what that means for the future of work. Top-heavy hierarchical and centralised structures are breaking down. The era of the big organisation is on the way out. Kevin sees a...

Climate Change Science in Haiku

Reports released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can be daunting, even for science and policy insiders. The full Physical Science Assessment, the first installment of the Fifth Assessment Report (pdf), released in manuscript form earlier this...

Scandinavian-style Sustainability

This is a really good opinion piece by Dan Haugen on sustainability. It highlights the tensions, the paradoxes and the complexities of sustainability. While it shows that there are certainly solutions and successes there remains a great deal of uncertainty as we...