environment
ClickGreen.com.au
A few months back I wrote about FreeRice.com, an online word definition game run by the UN’s World Food Programme, which donates 20 grains of rice to needy people around the globe for every word correctly defined by users. Since then, several people have told me that they made FreeRice their homepage and spend the [...]
On bio-fuels
There has been a lot of criticism of late about bio-fuels and, like many issues, the good technologies are being tarred with the same brush as the bad. And this is a terrible shame, for there are clearly good and bad bio-fuel projects, just as there are good and bad hydro projects. The principle behind [...]
Climate change opportunity
We regularly hear of the “climate change challenge”. Indeed it is. But it also presents an opportunity. With the policy objective of reducing emissions, the Garnaut Climate Change Review recommended that this is most efficiently achieved by the implementation of an emissions trading scheme (ETS), rather than an emissions tax (often referred to as a [...]
Cleantech bull-ants
There can be no more important mission for today’s innovators than saving the planet. In Australia, the cleantech industry recently rose to the challenge at Enviro 08, the nation’s premier conference dealing with environmental and sustainability issues. Anthill went along and met some exhibitors showing the world how to recharge, recover, recycle, reuse and reflect, [...]









