Month: August 2005

Google Blog: Introducing Desktop 2: “At Google we’re never satisfied. Last fall we released Google Desktop Search, which finds reams of information of all kinds on your computer with Google-fast speed and accuracy. But then our product people got to thinking: what about when you’re feeling kind of lazy? Wouldn’t it be cool if your…

thomasstreet.info: “features photos of the plants we’re growing in our garden & notes on germination, propagation and growing them, in addition to notes on nutritional, medicinal, psychoactive and other properties & uses of these plants.”

A fortnight after closing the world’s largest coal export port (in Newcastle, NSW), Greenpeace is taking on the developed world’s most greenhouse-polluting power plant in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The power plant, known as Hazelwood, should have closed this year. Instead, Victorian premier Steve Bracks has kept it running and polluting, even though the clean energy…

7news national news: “Govt hypocritical over coal: Greens Date: 11/08/05 The Australian Greens have accused Environment Minister Ian Campbell of hypocrisy over his support for two new coal mines. Senator Campbell’s department, in a submission to a green group’s Queensland Federal Court challenge to the coal mines, has disputed that burning coal leads to global-warming…

The Australian: Coalition ‘all at sea’ on climate [August 12, 2005]: “Coalition ‘all at sea’ on climate THE Howard Government has been accused of displaying a ‘mass of contradictions’ on climate change, warning of the dangers it posed one week and denying its existence the next.”

Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell has stunned conservationists by denying that burning coal causes greenhouse gas emissions. The denial was made in a submission by Senator Campbell to a Federal Court challenge by a Queensland environmental group. Wildlife Whitsunday went to court seeking environmental impact assessments on two coal mines, saying burning coal produces gas…