A child’s right to a good earth
Every parent wants the best for their child and vows to keep them safe. But what does this promise look like in a warming world?
Environment – Page 5
The country is like a body
Ellen van Neerven explores why Indigenous culture and knowledge should form an essential part of Australia’s response to climate change.
Australia should embrace the global energy change
Right Now speaks to nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson, who explains how energy production based on small modular renewables is a green, equitable and promising way forward.
How expensive is that cheap product?
Supermarket Monsters is an easy-to-read documentation of the sins of the supermarkets, writes Lou Heinrich.
Films pay homage to interminable spirit of environmentalists
Defendant 5 and Black Ice are both testaments to the inspirational endurance of the environmental movement, both at the most basic grassroots level and on the world stage, writes Christieanna Ozorio.
Not just another doomsday climate change book
The Handbook is not your typical book about climate change science, writes Pia White.
Personal feelings about climate change aired in handwritten letters
An exhibition at the Melbourne Writers Festival uses the age-old practice of letter writing to demonstrate the gravity of the world’s climate change problem.
Beyond Adaptation: Rights, Loss and Climate Change in the Torres Strait
Elaine Kelly discusses the impacts of climate change in Torres Strait, and the legal frameworks that assist one of Australia’s most vulnerable communities.
Does the Human Species Have the Right to a Future?
Sam Ryan points out how the human species takes for granted the right to a future, instead of engaging with the very issues we are creating for the planet.
Hazelwood coal mine fire “completely avoidable”
The Coal Face is crucial reading for those interested in an analysis of the vested interests that culminated in the Hazelwood coal mine fire, writes Samaya Borom.
Subliminal art pieces address the greatest challenge of our time – climate change
The Nature/Revelation exhibition uses art to manoeuvre the viewer into feelings of awe and respect of the natural environment and the effects of climate change, writes Christopher Ringrose.
Wunderkammer exhibition subverts traditional human-animal perceptions
Artist and children author Rod McRae’s latest exhibition forces viewers to confront the ethics of animal treatment, writes Mabel Kwong.