Sustainability is in the Singapore air
Singapore is in the news because we’re here for the National Sustainability Conference, but we cannot ignore the reports from Australia on the Labor’s excuse for a climate change policy. We offer words of sheer disappointment that the best Julia Gillard can come up with is a “people’s assembly”. The plot for a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions! Not much better news from the US where the Democrats have decided to hold off plans to put its climate/energy bill to the Senate. Sane commentators are looking for someone to blame for this inaction when Washington and half the world are experiencing the extreme weather we can expect from climate change. The hottest half year the globe has ever experienced and measured. Maybe the US EPA boss Lisa Jackson has a way to deal with it. Hope abounds: Like a solar robot-controlled journey from Italy to China. A space plane that runs on hydrogen. Better and cheaper ethanol from sugar to sweeten up the energy supply and a way to utilise CO2 for air conditioning and heating. We cannot fail to mention our find of the week – a very Green School in Bali built with love out of bamboo! – Ken Hickson