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Category: Arts and Letters

Posted inArts and Letters

What you’ve been reading these past weeks as the election looms

by The Fifth Estate 23 May 202223 May 2022
Rich man in pool
Posted inArts and Letters

What we’re reading: How the World’s Richest People Are Driving Global Warming

by Rose Mary Petrass 26 April 202226 April 2022
Wake Smith Pandora's toolbox
Posted inArts and Letters

And now for the bad news: Yale professor says net zero is only the beginning of our climate challenge in new book Pandora’s Toolbox

by Rose Mary Petrass 22 February 202222 February 2022
The Big Switch Book Flat Lay
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Saul Griffith on why we need to electrify (almost) everything!

by The Fifth Estate 17 February 202217 February 2022
Saul Griffith THE BIG SWITCH
Posted inEnergy

The Big Switch: Saul Griffith says the answer is electric

by Rose Mary Petrass 17 February 202217 February 2022
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Books: How to inject new life into outdated suburbs

by Peter Newman, Curtin University, Peter Newton, Swinburne University of Technology, Stephen Glackin, Swinburne University of Technology and Giles Thomson, Curtin University 1 February 202222 February 2022
Posted inArts and Letters

Book Review: The Carbon Club by Marian Wilkinson

by Poppy Johnston 3 November 20203 November 2020
Posted inArts and Letters

Up Expletive Hill

by Mick Daley 23 September 202025 September 2020
Posted inArts and Letters

New podcast ep: Esther Bailey on the quiet achievement of public service

by The Fifth Estate 2 July 202016 July 2020
Posted inArts and Letters

Jack Mundey, the Liverpudlian and some other expats

by Michael Paton 14 May 202019 May 2020
Posted inArts and Letters

Book review: Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue

by Poppy Johnston 13 February 202014 February 2020
Thomas Mayor
Posted inArticles

Book Review: Finding the Heart of the Nation by Thomas Mayor

by Willow Aliento 23 January 2020
House 19 sustainable house
Posted inArts and Letters

New energy performance book should be mandatory reading for architects and policy-makers

by Dr Roderic Bunn 28 October 201929 October 2019
Posted inArts and Letters

Bren Smith: Eat Like a Fish

by Poppy Johnston 15 August 2019
Posted inArts and Letters

2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration

by Poppy Johnston 27 June 201927 June 2019
A pathway to One Planet cities 
Posted inArts and Letters

A pathway to One Planet cities 

by Julia Grove 6 June 2019
James Murray Parkes tomorrowland 2018
Posted inArts and Letters

Problems and Where to Find them by James Murray-Parkes

by Julia Grove 14 March 2019
Posted inArts and Letters

The sustainable summer reading list

by Willow Aliento 20 December 201820 December 2018
Tomorrowland 2018 cover
Posted inArts and Letters

Tomorrowland 2018 – the ebook

by The Fifth Estate 14 December 201817 December 2018
housing crisis as a group of family homes shaped as a dangerous falling ball as a symbol for a housing or house construction industry problem with 3D illustration elements.
Posted inArts and Letters

No Place Like Home – repairing Australia’s housing crisis

by Willow Aliento 1 November 20189 November 2018
environment jellyfish
Posted inArts and Letters

Jellyfish, capitalism and trees: Perspectives on the human-earth relationship

by Willow Aliento 30 August 201830 August 2018
Posted inArts and Letters

Fiction: For the Greater Good

by David Thorpe 9 January 201820 March 2018
Posted inArts and Letters

Book review: The Long Goodbye – coal, coral and Australia’s climate deadlock

by Willow Aliento 24 August 2017
Posted inArts and Letters

Not just the petrolheads: we all waste energy slaves

by Julia Grove 20 July 201713 March 2018
Posted inArts and Letters

Comic: Stuart McMillen on Energy Slaves

by The Fifth Estate 13 July 201731 July 2017
Posted inArts and Letters

Book review: Positive energy homes – creating passive houses for better living

by Willow Aliento 29 June 201729 June 2017
Posted inArts and Letters

Book review: We do things differently by Mark Stevenson

by Willow Aliento 22 June 201722 June 2017
Posted inArts and Letters

Book review: The conscious business – how to achieve purpose with profit

by Willow Aliento 18 May 2017
Posted inArts and Letters

Housing: Property Pickpockets – a rhyme on being locked out of the market

by Kris Spann 8 May 20173 October 2017
Posted inArts and Letters

Why some places make us feel terrible

by Willow Aliento 18 April 2017

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