Unburnable carbonin Environment, Social justice on 19 June 2013 |
Energy use portalsin Greener Homes, The Age on 9 June 2013 |
Gelato at Brunetti'sin Environment on 29 May 2013 |
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This is an edited version of a talk I gave at the Wheeler Centre on June 6, 2013 AWAY from the glare and confusion on climate change, there is a deeper conversation going on. It is changing the way climate activists plan their campaigns, and it is changing conversations behind the doors where money talks. Here is one example: on Tuesday, I went to a lunchtime meeting at Goldman Sachs, at 101 Collins Street, the swankiest office building in town. |
Quarterly bill shock could become a thing of the past – if you can pay attention instead. WHEN a smart meter was installed at Tim Forcey’s house in Sandringham in March, he decided to turn the extra expense into information. He signed onto the free ‘Energy Easy’ web-portal offered by electricity distributor United Energy. Mr Forcey is a chemical engineer and a member of the Bayside Climate Change Action Group. |
“I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighbourhoods.” That’s the first line of Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote. Me – I am always drawn back to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the sentences and their paragraphs. Every autumn, for the several years I’ve rented a room on an elm-lined street in Carlton, I get an urge to read the novella. I want to read it sitting in my terrace courtyard in the waning sun; on a stool in the window of a busy café; on my grandmother’s old armchair in my room, looking out to the yellowing trees. |
