Tag: Environment
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Green Thoughts #2: Investing Into Publicly Owned Renewable Energy
Green Thoughts is a new column by the UNSW Environment Collective. The Environment Collective is a group of students from UNSW who believe in collective action on climate change. Here are some stories written by our members which try and grapple with the systemic issues driving the climate crisis, from colonialism to the last pair of…
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Leard protesters delay mine, vowing to continue fight
Thom Mitchell [twitname]Thom_Mitchell[/twitname] Last Thursday activists won a battle in their years-long war against a new coal mine in the Leard State Forest. The Maules Creek Community Council successfully sought an injunction in the NSW Land and Environment Court to stop clearing, which began on May 27. The proponent, Whitehaven Coal, has agreed to delay…
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Enviro Collective to Push for Car Pooling
Whilst Australia has historically been slow to take up carpooling, the concept appears to be re-entering the green debate, possibly in light of rising petrol prices, traffic congestion, and the obvious environmental and health effects due to carbon emissions and degradation of air quality. “People are starting to face up to reality – this culture…
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Cruel Shark Delicacy Widely Available in Kingsford
Shark-finning is the process where a wild shark is caught, dragged abroad a boat and clubbed or stabbed to be pacified. The fins are hacked off and the animal thrown back overboard, where it can take several days to die from starvation, drowning or being eaten by other predators. This is the standard practise; the…
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SRC Calls For More Renewable Energy On Campus
The Student Representative Council announced the launch of RenewUNSW, an initiative they say is designed to pressure the university into increasing the amount of renewable energy used on campus. Only a month ago, Tharunka broke the story of how UNSW has consistently lowered its targets for renewable energy usage on campus, with the latest Environmental…
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Concerns UNSW Falling Behind in Sustainability
UNSW has again failed to make a list of the country’s top environmentally friendly tertiary institutions, missing out on inclusion in The Australian’s “Ten Greenest Universities.” Higher Education Editor at The Australian, Julie Hare, told Tharunka the universities which had made the list had well-developed operational practices, green buildings, embedded sustainability in the curricula and…