Indispensible & Inevitable

Two big “I” words crop up as we span and scan the world to bring this Expressly to you, directly from the Green Cities event in Melbourne. The theme is distinctly about buildings and lifestyle, starting with a profile on ecospecifier’s David Baggs, a leader in sustainability for the built environment.

Carbon pricing gets plugged as an “indispensible pillar”;  the New Scientists looks beyond CO2 to other gases that contribute to global warming and dimming, while a Nasa scientist brings us down to earth to consider human impacts on climate.

Tim Flannery criticises his fellow scientists for not communicating effectively and challenges property developers to get real about climate change impacts, while geoscientist Michael Oppenheimer tells us to prepare for the inevitable.

The Green Building Council gives us a new framework for sustainable communities; ASBEC shows us what the city will be like in 2041 and Singapore gives us a vision for a green built future.

Blue collar jobs will become green jobs as plumbers rise to the top and one airline gets a set-back for its bio fuel take off. Queensland takes on one of the world’s biggest mining firms over lead leaks and  Giles Parkinson gives us The Deal on green investment. As the lucky last, The Age editorialises about the political contest involving “two bulls in a paddock”.  Intrigued?