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The company, which handles about half of the state’s recycling, is in financial crisis and has told local councils it can no longer accept material

More than half of the Victorian rubbish usually handled by stricken recycling operator SKM will be sent to the tip after the company told 30 local councils it could no longer collect material from them.

Victorian minister for the environment, Lily D’Ambrosio, said other operators had the capacity to absorb about 40% of the approximately 300,000 tonnes of recycling handled by SKM every year, leaving about 180,000 tonnes destined for landfill.

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Creator of Gaia theory recalls how it nearly had another name and says the age of AI is nigh

James Lovelock has spent a lifetime pondering the forces that shape Earth. It was a pursuit that brought about his most famous creation: a view of the world where life maintains the conditions for life, which he niftily named Gaia theory.

The hypothesis, as it was back then, was wholeheartedly embraced by the fledgling green movement of the 1970s. But for Lovelock, who turned 100 on Friday, more pressing threats to the planet come from nature, not humans. In particular, he’s worried about asteroids.

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More than 60 news outlets worldwide have signed on to Covering Climate Now, a project to improve coverage of the emergency

For a week this September, dozens of news organizations in the US and around the world will join forces to devote their front pages and airwaves to a critical but under-covered story: the global climate emergency.

This unique media collaboration, timed to coincide with landmark UN Climate Action Summit in New York, is the first initiative of Covering Climate Now, a project co-founded by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review, in partnership with The Guardian, which aims to kickstart a conversation among journalists about how news outlets can improve their coverage of the climate crisis.

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Albany pitcher plants are more closely related to cabbages and roses than any other carnivorous plant. Adam Cross, Research Fellow, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Christian Aid poll finds climate emergency should be Boris Johnson’s top priority

Most Britons believe climate change is more important in the long term than Brexit and say it should be a top priority for Boris Johnson’s government, according to an opinion poll.

Women and young people are more likely to say that action over climate change is a more pressing priority than issues around Brexit.

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Wave energy demonstration plant to be trialled off King Island, Tasmania, where it will be integrated with existing wind, diesel and solar resources – a first in Australia.

The post Wave Swell Energy set to test new power generator off King Island appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Department of the Environment and Energy is trialling a new online acquittal portal with a small group of Wildlife Trade permit holders. ...

BHP has pledged to spend lots of money on new technologies and clean up its supply chain. But they said that a decade ago. Has anything changed?

The post How good is BHP’s pledge to tackle climate emergency? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The substation and transmission line to link to the Cattle Hill Wind Farm to the transmission network has been completed and energised by TasNetworks.

The post Cattle Hill Wind Farm substation energised appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NextEra Energy Resources will develop the largest co-located wind, solar, and energy storage project in the US, which will boast total capacity of 700 MW when it is completed in 2023.

The post NextEra to build largest combined solar, wind and storage facility in US appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Suncorp becomes the latest insurance firm to abandon the thermal coal industry, setting itself the deadline to eliminate coal exposure by 2025.

The post Australian insurance companies abandon thermal coal industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open from 26 July 2019 until 28 August 2019.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open from 26 July 2019 until 28 August 2019.

South Australia says second phase of Tesla virtual power plant going well, and it now looking at third phase which could deliver a 250MW VPP.

The post South Australia says Tesla virtual power plant charging ahead appeared first on RenewEconomy.

How do Queensland's wind resources fit with the rest of Australia's? There's not much data out there yet, but what there is is encouraging.

The post When the wind doesn’t blow here, maybe it’s blowing over there appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMC needs to make some changes if their demand response proposals is to get the right outcome, and pave way for a truly two-sided market.

The post Demand Response: We still haven’t found what we are looking for … appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nearly two decades after it was first proposed, demand response is to finally become a part of Australia’s electricity market. Craig Memery, from PIAC explains. Plus: Queensland finally delivers.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Does demand response spell the end for dirty peakers? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

André Borschberg co-piloted the Solar Impulse plane that went round the world on solar power only. He says the future of flight is electric, from passenger plants to intra-city flying pods.

The post The Driven Podcast: From Solar Impulse to electric flight appeared first on RenewEconomy.

If this demand-response mechanism does what it is claimed to do, it could be a significant development for the electricity markets in southern and eastern Australia. But the actual proposal is eye-wateringly complex and there is reason to be circumspect.

The post Demand-response rules sound good, but the devil is in (hugely complicated) details appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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