Zero Waste Australia

See it? There, in the downstairs laundry room, escaping through the needle-fine spaces between the cinder-block walls.

That chill in the front bathroom during the winter? The oppressive heat in the attic during the summer?

Experts say it's all part of the same thing: energy being lost.

A new group of professionals known as home performance contractors are here to save the day.

The decision by Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change
secretary, to commit Britain to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by
80 per cent by 2050 is welcome. Recent research has made it clear that
the government's previous target of a 60 per cent reduction would be
insufficient to help halt profound climate change this century. New
measures were required.

The Australian kangaroo industry says it makes good environmental sense
to farm more kangaroos at the expense of traditional livestock
industries.

The Australian government's climate change advisor,
Professor Ross Garnaut, has suggested that removing sheep and cattle
from the Australian rangelands, and replacing them with 175 million
farmed kangaroos, would help tackle climate change.

John Kelly,
from the Kangaroo Industry Association, says it's a vote of confidence
in the sector but more work's needed to encourage Australians to eat
kangaroo.

Pesto Shrimp hors d'ouevre: Fisherman's Daughter shrimp in a pesto sauce, resting on a tortilla chip, with Genesis Growers butternut squash, garnished with a tiny green

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A biotechnology company using animal tissue to repair human heart valves, hernias and tendons claims Australia is missing out on a lucrative market for tissue engineered from kangaroos because the native animals cannot be farmed here.

State environmental regulators Wednesday released a near-final version of California's landmark plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions, emphasizing for the first time the key role expected for the kind of innovation that has long kept Silicon Valley humming.

The message delivered by Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the state's Air Resources Board, was clear: Businesses, especially small and midsize operations, will be the among the primary drivers behind the state's sweeping goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels within 12 years.

Britain has become the first country in the world to make a legally-binding commitment to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80per cent by the middle of the century.

Ed Miliband, the new Climate Change and Energy Secretary, said that
the current target of 60 per cent was not stringent enough to tackle
global warning.

He told MPs that the Government would not "row
back" on green issues, despite the pressures on the economy of the
current downtown.

For decades, scientists and resource managers have known that wildfires affect forest soils, evidenced, in part, by the erosion that often occurs after a fire kills vegetation and disrupts soil structure. But, the lack of detailed knowledge of forest soils before they are burned by wildfire has hampered efforts to understand fire's effects on soil fertility and forest ecology.

IN A greenhouse gas-conscious world, finding ways to cut methane emissions from dairy cattle is taxing the minds of researchers.

In Victoria, efforts are focused on dietary supplements. Experiments are showing that by feeding dairy cows with plants that contain more oil, the cattle produce fewer methane emissions.

Some European and US research is concentrating on what goes into the cow's mouth - it's all about improving nutrition, creating a higher-quality feed that not only increases milk production, but cuts the cow's carbon impact.

Carbon market capitalists have turned rice husk into a hot profit opportunity for the milling industry. Rice companies are earning big bucks selling husk as fuel to electricity plants that wish to earn carbon credits. And whether or not the earth is cooler, they have received a mega infusion of power.