This year’s True Cost Economics forum saw both young and old dig deep within the pros and cons of carbon trading.

Keynote guest speaker Frank de Jong gave a compelling presentation on the importance of getting green Economics right. “We need to charge at the point of source so that we green the entire manufacturing process”. Carbon taxes over trading was his perogative, with tax shifting ensuring . Visit Frank’s Tools of Sustainability Tour report, including extensive multimedia page to download movies of talks and hear radio interviews.

January, 2007

With climate change finally front and centre on the political agenda, we are at a unique point in time to assess our ability to change.

When capitalism began there was an abundance of nature and a shortage of goods. It made sense to prioritise the means of production. However today, …

by Karl Williams

Countless indigenous peoples and social philosophers throughout history have reiterated the ageless wisdom that it’s plain wrong to own land. Land is the gift of nature, and should be the equal and common birthright of all humanity, yet we find that it’s bought, sold, and monopolised like a …

What’s the worth of the beauty of a tree, in hard dollar figures? What about its climate-stabilising value, the value of its biodiversity, and every other intangible value we’d like to defend?

By Crikey, this is no mere academic exercise, for the Common Wealth is currently being trashed precisely because these …

by Karl Fitzgerald

As the South Pole effect blows its melting southerly winds upon our summer, the wake up call must be coming soon. With the evidence mounting up, young people are wondering what is causing the delay.There are reasons like there are seasons. Much has to do with the playing …