Tag Archives: Australian Conservation Foundation

The danse macabre of politics, business and carbon dioxide

Posted on 24 March 2015 by Peter Boyer

Business’s bottom line is now the favoured target of activists seeking to have an impact on our relentlessly-rising CO2 levels [24 March 2015 | Peter Boyer] By the end of next year, for the first time in human history, the … Continue reading →

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Consorting with the enemy

Posted on 21 May 2013 by Peter Boyer

No-man’s land is a scary place, but it’s better than the trenches. [21 May 2013 | Peter Boyer] I don’t agree, said the novelist Richard Flanagan. We don’t either, said numerous others in angry blogs and letters to the editor. … Continue reading →

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Sustainability: a matter of public interest

Posted on 2 October 2012 by Peter Boyer

Our first priority in finding a sustainable pathway is to attend to our neglected public space. [2 October 2012 | Peter Boyer] Confidence is everything. It can make an apparently hopeless cause seem possible and transform what seems a threatening … Continue reading →

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