My take on this has always been that we pollute far too much currently and although the science seems overwhelmingly in favour of man made global warming: does it really matter?
Solar panels on government buildings.. A first step.
Dec 29th, 2009
The South Australian premier has announced solar panels on government roofs from July 2010. Sounds like a good first step.
Left vs Right visualised
Oct 26th, 2009
This big old visualisation from the accurately named informationisbeautiful.net really sums up the reason there are problems trying to satisfy such different mindsets. Though I’m a sucker for information visualisation I should disclose. Data and concepts such as this can (and should) be interesting. As an aside, here’s a TED talk showing some pretty funky [...]
Ray of sunshine on renewables in Australia
May 19th, 2009
Good news for the planet: Australia is going to spend some of that “nation building” money on solar.
The credit crisis in pretty pictures and animations
Mar 12th, 2009
Pictures work better than the endless stream of disjoint articles on how screwed the financial market is. Here’s my pick on various people’s visual explanation of how greed/stupidity got us where we are now.
The clean coal fantasy
Jan 17th, 2009
I’m continually amazed at just how often you can hear the term “clean coal” (“carbon sequestration”, “carbon capture and store”) come out of the political arena. I don’t think I can recall another as yet non-existent technology that so much was being assumed will be developed and solve all our problems. The energy industry version of snail oil (perhaps “snake gas”, “snake sequestration” would be more appropriate).
