NEW REPORT

Diesendorf M (2007) Paths to a Low-Carbon Future: Reducing Australia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 30 per cent by 2020. Released October. Download from <www.ies.unsw.edu.au>. News and Events page.

NEW BOOK PUBLISHED IN MAY 2007

Diesendorf M 2007, Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy, UNSW Press, Sydney.

This book assesses the various technologies that have been put forward as solutions to the greenhouse crisis, including efficient energy use, renewable energy, coal with the capture and burial of CO2, gas and transport systems. It then proposes a set of strategies, scenarios and policies for implementing those technologies that are genuinely ecologically sustainable.
2nd printing October 2007.
Media Release PDF and Publisher's flyer & order form

SYMPOSIA & SEMINARS TO LAUNCH OR PUBLICIZE GREENHOUSE SOLUTIONS

Forthcoming

Woodford Folk Festival, Qld, 30 December, 10.00–11.30 am, forum with Ian Lowe, chaired by Sandy McCutcheon, concert venue.

Previous

Perth 8 May 2007, 4.30–6.30 pm at Alinta,The Esplanade.
Organiser: WA Solar Energy Society.
Speaker: Dr Mark Diesendorf

Sydney 22 May, 5.30-8.00 pm, at UNSW, Kensington.
Chair: Robyn Wiilliams, ABC Science Unit.
Speakers: Dr Mark Diesendorf, Dr Iain MacGill, Dr Muriel Watt and Frank Muller
Organisers: Institute of Environmental Studies (IES) and Centre for Energy & Environmental Markets (CEEM), UNSW.
Flyer for Sydney symposium

Melbourne 30 May, 5.30–7.30 pm, University of Melbourne, Parkville.
Organiser: Australian Centre for Science, Innovation & Society, www.acsis.unimelb.edu.au
Speakers: Dr Mark Diesendorf and Adjunct Professor Alan Pears.

Moss Vale NSW, 5 June, CanWin public meeting;

Adelaide 7 June, 5.30–7.30 pm, at University of South Australia, City East Campus.
Organiser: ANZSES SA
Speakers: Dr Mark Diesendorf, Monica Oliphant and one other.

Canberra 27 June, 5.30-7.30 pm, at Australian National University
Organiser: Nature & Society Forum
Speakers: Dr Mark Diesendorf and Dr Hugh Saddler

Brisbane 2 July 5.30-7.30 pm at QUT Gardens Point Campus.
Chair: Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe
Organiser: Queensland Conservation Council and Friends of the Earth, Brisbane.

Albury NSW, 20 July, Dinner of de Kerilleau Society

Melbourne, 21 July, Australian Fabian Society seminar

Hobart 16 August, University of Tasmania.
Organisers: Sustainable Living Tasmania and School of Geography and Environmental Studies.
Speakers: Dr Mark Diesendorf and Dr John Todd

Gold Coast Qld, 7 September, Urban Design Conference

Brisbane 13 & 15 September: Brisbane Writers' Festival

Brisbane 14 September: Qld Power Conference

Alice Springs 5 October: ANZSES Solar 2007 conference

Ballarat, Vic., 8 November 2007;

Bendigo, Vic., 9 November, 10.30 am, Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance.

Castelmaine, Vic., 9 November, 7.30 pm, Mount Alexander Sustainability Group.

Newcastle, NSW, 13 November, 6.30 pm, Town Hall, Climate Action Newcastle.

Numerous meetings of community climate action , professional and other groups in Sydney.

Note: The book's recommended retail price is $49.95, however it is available at public symposia/launches for the discount price of $40, sometimes even less.

PDF files of some of the slideshows presented at the book launches are available for download at
http://www.ies.unsw.edu.au/events/events.htm

OTHER NEWS

• Vested interests – notably the coal and nuclear industries – and their political representatives have been disseminating fallacies about renewable energy, claiming falsely that it cannot substitute for coal power. Mark has refuted these fallacies in his new book (especially Chapter 6), and in an article 'The Base-Load Fallacy' published on www.energyscience.org.au as Briefing Paper No. 16.

• Mark Diesendorf has been dragged into the nuclear energy debate. Nothing much has changed: the nuclear industry is still as dangerous and expensive as it was several decades ago. But the industry has discovered a new marketing angle, the notion that nuclear energy could be a significant part of the solution to global warming. This notion is incorrect --see Popular Articles. Moreover, the clean energy future scenarios (see below) -- based on efficient energy use, some low-cost renewable energy sources and (temporarily, for this century) natural gas -- are safer, cleaner, cheaper and longer lasting than nuclear energy.

• A series of reports has been written by Sustainability Centre on substituting for proposed or existing coal-fired power stations in four States. These reports -- Towards Victoria's Clean Energy Future, Towards New South Wales' Clean Energy Future, Towards Queensland's Clean Energy Future and Towards Western Australaia's Clean Energy Future -- have been published in 2004 and 2005 by the Clean Energy Future Group and may be downloaded from www.wwf.org.au (go to "Publications"). An article summarizing all this work has been published by the CSIRO Sustainability Network in its e-letter no. 54, see www.bml.csiro.au/susnetnl/netwl54E.pdf, and may be downloaded from our "Popular articles" webpage.

• Major report published in March 2004, in collaboration with Energy Strategies and The Australia Institute, on A Clean Energy Future for Australia. Report may be downloaded from websites of WWF Australia or Business Council for Sustainable Energy. For a brief summary, see Consulting and Applied Research

More publications: see Scholarly Publications and Popular Articles.