Rise in global greenhouse gas emissions is accelerating

by | 3 Jun 2014 | Starfish

Global greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing by at least 1.3 per cent every year since 1970. From 2000 to 2010, those emissions were even greater, increasing by 2.2 per cent annually. Current efforts to reduce greenhouse gases through demand management, energy...

5 Keys for a Sustainable Home

by | 23 May 2014 | Starfish

1. Efficiency Over the life of a building the operational energy used to run it generally exceeds the embodied energy used to build it (save the likes of a passive house). This explains part of why there has been such a push for efficiency in recent years. 2. Energy...

Lismore leads the nation in uptake of solar energy

by | 21 May 2014 | Starfish

LISMORE is leading the nation in solar power with a higher percentage of households in the 2480 postcode using rooftop solar and/or hot water systems than anywhere else in Australia. A new report by the REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) Agents Association also finds...

Community ‘ownership’ of windfarms is the future

by | 1 May 2014 | Starfish

With 4,000 direct jobs in rural NSW and over $6billion in investment in the pipeline you would expect politicians on the Southern Tablelands to be supporting jobs in the renewable energy industry. This industry has become one of the major employers in this region....

It’s time we started selling sustainability

by | 14 Apr 2014 | Starfish

A woman walks toward a well through clouds of dust raised by cattle in the wadi outside Louri village in the Mao region of Chad. For generations, the people of this bone-dry region lived off their herds, but climate change has meant that the normally once-a-decade...

Divestment from Fossil Fuels grows apace

by | 27 Mar 2014 | Starfish

Seventeen philanthropic foundations controlling nearly $2 billion in assets have agreed to put their money where their ethics are, announcing they will be divesting all their holdings in the fossil fuel industry and reinvesting in the clean energy sector. Organized as...