Australia,
the country that wastes millions of dollars on underutilised desalination plants,
… yet wastes drinking water on data centres https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz
Victorian Govenment and VicGrid need to wake up to reality:
The trauma caused by Coal Seam Gas, that led to #LockTheGates is still raw.
Force and ‘law’ isn’t going to help gain access.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-11-18/vni-west-access-denied-by-farmers/106020096
#AusPol #AusBiz #VicPol #VicLaw #AgChatOz #SocialLicence
Mudgee's Lowe Wines becomes Australia's largest winery to go off grid with Solar and battery storage.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/mudgee-off-electricity-grid-winery-lowe-wines/105941576
#AusPol #AgChatOz #AusBiz
A reminder about the critical importance of conservation and biodiversity for bluesky research.
We literally don’t know about what exists on our world, and what potential it has on medicinal development.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-13/stonefish-toxin-could-help-fight-parasitic-worms-in-livestock/105160120
#AusPol #AusSci #AusSci #AgChatOz #ClimateCrisis #Medicine #Biodiversity #Livestock
Case for expanding railway networks:
Watch: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHa3ZIfoWie/?igsh=MmdkaGhlMTVua3o2
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz #ClimateAction #FoodSecurity #Logistics
50K likes, 832 comments - forkranger on March 20, 2025: "Food miles are completely useless when it comes to making sustainable food choices... When we think of the climate impact of food we often think of transport because it’s so easy to visualize how bananas travel half the globe to arrive in Europe. But transport plays a minor role in the impact of food. It’s more useful to think of how much space was necessary to grow that food. 🍌 Banana: one tree → low impact 🥩 Beef: fields of grass (and maybe even corn) to feed a cow → high impact So if your plant-based recipe includes products from across the world, that’s okay. There are still benefits for promoting a 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 (vs optimizing for local food choices): - more transparency - more connection to our food and landscape - more local crops and higher biodiversity But once you enter the supermarket, you’re already part of the global food system. In that context, paying attention to food miles is useless. I think this is good news because it simplifies sustainable food choices: make animal foods a luxury and don’t worry so much about all the other stuff. What do you think? And what does it make you feel? - - Sources: Crippa, M., Solazzo, E., Guizzardi, D., Monforti-Ferrario, F., Tubiello, F. N., & Leip, A. J. N. F. (2021). Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions. Nature Food, 2(3), 198-209. Hannah Ritchie (2020) - “Very little of global food is transported by air; this greatly reduces the climate benefits of eating local” Published online at OurWorldInData #climatemergency #climatecrisis #sustainablefuture #sustainabilitymatters #actonclimate".
Environment Centre Northern Territory (ECNT) has initiated legal proceedings to challenge the Northern Territory government’s approval of the largest fracking project in its history - Tamboran Resources Shenandoah project.
#NTpol #Darwin #ausag #agchatoz
https://1earthmedia.com/legal-challenge-against-nts-largest-fracking-project/
Attn: Northern Territory & WA farmers!
Charles Darwin University wants 'citizen scientists' to test groundwater & bore water to establish baseline data - before your neighbour starts fracking
#NTpol #Darwin #WApol #ausag #agchatoz
Free test kits available:
https://1earthmedia.com/groundwater-baseline-data-needed-before-fracking-begins/
8 animals & 5 plants added to Australia's Threatened Species List this month.
Fauna: 3 freshwater fish, 3 lizards, a frog & turtle.
Flora: 1 rainforest tree, 2 flowering shrubs, a daisy & orchid species
#auspol #NSWpol #Qldpol #ausag #agchatoz #SpringSt
https://1earthmedia.com/8-animals-5-plants-added-to-threatened-species-this-month/
Southern Murray Darling Basin Water Markets Lose Nearly $2 Billion in Value Despite Government Buybacks.
The report offers insights into the market’s performance in 2023-24 and provides a cautious outlook for the coming year.
#auspol #ausag #agchatoz
https://1earthmedia.com/murray-darling-basin-water-markets-lose-2-billion/
The real Regional Queenslanders that say electric vehicles are worth it
Love stories like these. It’s real. It’s genuine. It’s not politicians making up facts based on their assumptions from an ivory tower.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-10/regional-rural-queensland-electric-vehicle-uptake/103914408
#QldPol #QldBiz #AgChatOz #ElectricVehicles #Farmers
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