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Imagining 2020: Green Opportunities Outweigh Costs

Monday, 8 March 2010, 1:49 pm | Imagining 2020

Phillip Mills describes his vision for a low carbon future based on ‘clean technology’. More >>

Imagining 2020 #4: Green Crude by Pete Fowler

Friday, 4 December 2009, 10:55 am | Imagining 2020

I was very pessimistic until last year about our prospects of weaning off fossil fuels before reaching an irreversible tipping point. Some positive feedback loop would kick in, like higher temperatures releasing trapped methane from arctic permafrost ... More >>

Imagining 2020 #3: Dave McArthur - Imagineer

Monday, 30 November 2009, 2:28 pm | Imagining 2020

It is 2020 and we have finally worked out the nature of the mysterious force that came to dominate human affaires and transformed global society a decade earlier. A consensus now exists that if this force had not emerged then the existing play ... More >>

Imagining 2020 #2: Low Carbon Future? Bah! Humbug!

Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 9:42 am | Imagining 2020

On the eve of December’s Copenhagen conference on climate, all indications are that there will be no legally binding obligations agreed to by nations insofar as carbon emissions are concerned. The inability of civilisations to pre-empt catastrophe ... More >>

Imagining 2020 #1 - The Age Of Smart

Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 9:40 am | Imagining 2020

This story came about because there didn’t seem to be any overall New Zealand plan to reduce our emissions – let alone at the scale and speed needed to do our fair share to avoid global climate tipping points. Yet, as life seems to go on as usual, ... More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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