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Town planners hoping to steal some green headlines must be a little hacked off right now, after Masdar popped up and weed on their chips. How can you cover yourself in green building glory when you’re standing in the shadow of a city that plans to be 100 percent
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Better late than never eh? After previous Aussie PM John Howard was somewhat standoffish on the environment, new head of state Kevin Rudd has ratified Kyoto and is set to bring in a carbon trading scheme no later than 2010, with the details of how this will all work scheduled
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Australia looks like it’s about to test a new carbon capture system that sounds to Greenbang a bit like shoving all those old magazines you don’t want to throw out under the bed and then forgetting about it while it gets covered in dust and pet hair: according
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Australia’s Queensland is known as the Sunshine State. Just the sort of place you’d want to think about setting up a scheme to pay people switching to solar energy. Which, funnily enough, is exactly what’s been happening over there. Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, will kick off a
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There are many things that are universally accepted that are not necessarily true. Tomato ketchup is the natural compliment to chips (the pickled egg is the daddy in this category), for example, or black suits everyone (if that were true, Goths would be style leaders). Now the University of California
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Do you come from a land Down Under? Can you hear, can you hear the thunder? If the answer is yes, you’re either in the Aussie band Men at Work or you’re a politician caught up in the South Australian stampede to back the free plastic bags ban.
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It’s Guinness world records time, with the news that the world’s largest solar photovoltaic power station gong is set to pass to Australian state Victoria. The Aussies will be saying g’day to the development some time in 2009. The record breaking power plant begin generation in 2010