Jul 20, 08



Australian Business and Climate Change


ABC's running a pretty good radio bit on climate change and how Australia's businesses are grappling with its impacts. It's not as wide-ranging as Businesses Take on Climate Change or some of our other previous coverage on business and global warming, for that matter, but it's still a really good round-up on the issue. If you're following the ways in which the business repsonse to climate is unfolding, this is well worth your time:

"In what to me is an astonishingly short time, five years or less, climate change has morphed from what was seen to be the province of pointy-headed scientists and environmental Cassandras to the point where ... in the Carbon Disclosure Project we have over $21 trillion worth of investors at least paying lip service to being concerned about the phenomenon..."

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Good to see it's getting the press it deserves there. You all might be interested in Slingfings, an Australian apparel company that stitches reused and vintage fabric together to make so pretty funky, fun clothes. They claim to be the first climate-neutral business in Australia; find out more at their website

Posted by: Collin Dunn on October 17, 2005 10:26 AM

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