Category: Sustainability
Alex Leemon from Currently Speaking offers a slightly contrarian take on Australia's energy transition.
On a rocky stretch of coastline on Hawaii’s Big Island a group of marine biologists are studying the lifecycle of the octopus - a creature that lives fast and dies young.
As a nation with a large reserve of uranium but no nuclear energy industry Australia is periodically subject to op-ed pieces designed to drum up support for a domestic nuclear power industry.
You can find a lot of dead sea creatures at Tsukiji Fish Market but you wont find much whale meat.
Right in the center of the biggest city in the world an experiment in agriculture is being conducted.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo is a run-down testament to the ambition of some of Japan's most celebrated post-war architects.
In South Africa, the saying goes, 'wildlife must pay its way'. It's not enough to be endangered you have to generate revenue to be conserved.
In the valleys of Cappadocia are hundreds of cave churches from the early years of Christianity.
Thankfully not an aquarium in a shed but just an aquarium named after a guy called Shedd.
Some photos from our guided tour of the Teck Smelter in Trail, BC.
Early colour photographs of Tsarist Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii courtesy of the US Library of Congress.
Some tremendous wildlife and landscape photography by Marsel Van Oosten.
Some images from Cradle Mountain National Park in Central Tasmania.
Some images from a trip to the Grampians in western Victoria late last year.
Burtynsky is a legendary photographic artist but there's a reason I haven't featured any of his work here before.
Some amazing footage taken from the International Space Station as it orbits the earth.
After months of deliberation the Royal Commission report into the 2009 bushfires has been released and its findings have been made public.
I come across a lot of high-quality infographics in publications like New Scientists and I'm continually impressed by how designers find new ways to present information.
A very talented friend of mine working for Shine Technologies here in Melbourne has just completed work on an iPhone application designed to provide easy access to the scientific data that contradicts some of the more popular arguments put forward by 'climate skeptics'.
These business cards were made for Thomas Fairman, a Forest Scientist from the University of Melbourne working on land carbon reserves in Victoria. The design was done by yours truly with printing by West-Australian company Saltprint. They offer a range of 100% recycled paper stock which use a mix of totally chlorine-free and elemental chlorine-free pulp fibers and part of their commitment to the environment includes planting one native tree for every order to offset the carbon cost of the printing. They also use renewable energy sources like wind and hydro for most (92%)of their power requirements.