Environment
Sustainability
Cold weather and power prices prompt record interest in batteries and solar
Frigid weather and the upheaval in the energy market has whetted consumer appetite for renewable technologies like home batteries and rooftop solar.
- by Miki Perkins
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Green action makes for economic and social wins
Small individual efforts can lead to amazing outcomes for the planet.
- by Staff Writer
‘Tree thinning’ or stealth-logging? Fight for WA forests far from over
Logging as we know it will end in 2024, but the battles are only beginning. Water scarcity means “thinning” may be needed, but will loggers agree without a supply guarantee? And if not, who pays?
- by Peter de Kruijff
What goes around: 100 firms are making plastics a global problem
As international and regional organisations seem to be getting more ambitious in curtailing plastic pollution, the corporate sector looks to be lagging.
- by J.J. Rose
WA project gives new view of plastic dump sites in world’s worst ocean polluters
A new global tool aims to help governments tackle the leakage of plastic into the sea, taking regularly updated satellite vision to create a high-resolution map.
- by Peter de Kruijff