Jennifer Marohasy

A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out.   Read more here.

A dam wall burst releasing more than a billion gallons of coal ash in East Tennessee just before Christmas on December 22.    The gray sludge apparently now covers over 300 acres and has destroyed three homes.   Interestingly the spill has been blamed on cold weather and above-normal rains (see MSNBC news report).    
In the US and [...]

A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.  Read more here.

Sydney wants green to be the dominant colour in its massive New Year’s Eve fireworks and festivities to herald in 2009.  Read more here.

GetUp’s global warming television ads (to air today) are dishonest and inaccurate, according to Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Chair of the Australian Environment Foundation.
“For all sorts of reasons a number of groups, of which Internet campaigners GetUp.org.au are one, are pretending that the Rudd Government’s proposed Emissions Trading Scheme is a minor 5 to15 percent adjustment [...]

Nascent green industry’s balance sheets are beginning to bleed red… for the giant wind farm project to be economically viable we will have to wait for fossil-fuel prices to rise again. Read more here.

Make a Donation, Save the Environment, Stop the Emissions Trading Scheme. Read more here.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am writing to you as the Chair of the Australian Environment Foundation (AEF).  Over the last year a key issue for us has been the protection of River Red Gum forests in the Central Murray Valley of south eastern Australia.   At our recent conference and AGM in Canberra, members decided that the [...]

“Residents were left fearing for their safety after shards of melting ice fell on homes and gardens from the blades of a giant wind turbine.” Read more here.

THIS is not what President-elect Barack Obama’s energy and climate strategists would want to hear. It would be anathema to Al Gore and other assorted luminaries touting renewable energy sources which in one giant swoop will save the world from the “tyranny” of fossil fuels and mitigate global warming. And as if these were not big [...]