Tag: Environment & sustainability
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Hypothetical putanesca
John Bevins John Bevins was asked some weeks after attending the Rozelle Feast Day hypothetical, The ‘Ethics of Pork Production, Distribution...
Environmentalists should give up on sustainability
John Bevins At the Festival of Dangerous Ideas John Bevins attended Richard Denniss’ talk about why sustainability isn’t sustainable and...
Clive Hamilton on why we are all climate change deniers
Clive Hamilton gave us a rather chilling exposé on both the grim realities of expected levels of global warming and its associated...
Business leaders for sustainability
The 11th National Business Leaders’ Forum on Sustainable Development was held at Parliament House, Canberra on 27 and 28 May 2010. A group of...
Sustainability with style
Established by Michael Fitzsimons in 1987, Instyle Contract Textiles was created with a vision to build an internationally respected textile company...
The ethics of catastrophic risk
The tortuous path of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) through Federal Parliament represents an absolute low point in the development of Australian...
Abolition of slavery debate replayed as emissions trading scheme toppled in the house
On 13 August 2009, the Senate defeated the Government’s legislation to establish an emissions trading scheme. Prior to the parliamentary debate...
To buy or not to buy
If you’re seriously into sustainability, writes Amanda McLeod, you should be buying nothing as much as you can, firstly rejecting the mass...
Making cities sustainable
As cities expand and populations rise, civic leaders are drafting plans aimed at making urban centres more sustainable – but are they doing...
The concept of 'sustainability'
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the concept of 'sustainability' – not least because business leaders and canny advocates for the...
Sustainability
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the concept of 'sustainability' – not least because business leaders and canny advocates for the...
Justice and indigenous affairs
What might John Locke's ethical justification for the existence of money have to do with the fate of unused building sites? And how might this relate...
Globalisation is not the end of the world
Many of those who attended this year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos will have come away with the impression that the dominant...
Kyoto climate conference
The official position being advanced by the Australian government in advance of the climate conference in Kyoto is that current proposals for uniform...
Sustainability and the Corporate Responsibility Index
It is not so long ago that many people in business (perhaps even the majority) argued that the debate about 'sustainability’ was just a passing...
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