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Reforms that tinker at the edge of ‘business as usual’ will not be enough to ensure our environment’s capacity to support current and future generations. The Centre for Policy Development is calling for ideas on how we can move beyond our current impasse and learn to live on the environment's income rather than its capital.

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Not all roads lead to Rome: Crisis without collapse

CPD members are invited to join Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop in Sydney on August 27th to discuss how we can build our capacity to deal with environmental and economic crises.


Preparing for the long haul on climate change: A one-day roundtable

This roundtable in Brisbane on August 29 will focus on community and business governance in the era of climate change, with keynote speaker Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down, and CPD fellow Ian Dunlop.


Environment policy in Australia: beyond 'business as usual'

The Centre for Policy Development is running a series of articles looking at how we can move beyond our current impasse on environmental policy. This series will attempt to unearth the basic principles that Australia’s policy makers need to uphold if true sustainability is to be achieved.



Global warming and the case for a coal tax

Australia can outpace the Kyoto process without having to go it alone, writes John Perkins.


Climate change litigation: the heat is on

Kellie Tranter explains why Australian governments at all levels are in danger of being sued if they don't act fast on climate change.


Resetting Australia's cultural thermostat

Miriam Lyons asks what cultural traits would make Australia more resilient in the face of global change.


Crisis without collapse

How can we transform the risk of breakdown into an opportunity for renewal? Thomas Homer-Dixon explores the possibilities for positive change in this extract from ‘The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization’.


A 2020 vision of a feed in tariff for Australia

Voters, consumers and the planet are hungry for renewable energy: Danny Kennedy explains how to feed the renewables industry.


A balanced approach to the Murray-Darling Basin

Alex White reviews the Howard Government's $10 billion national water plan, and finds that it places too much emphasis on bureaucracy and infrastructure and not enough on stakeholder engagement and the establishment of functioning water markets.


Greenhouse solutions: breaking down the barriers

Dr Mark Diesendorf knows what belongs in the climate change policy toolkit. Now we just need policy makers to stop arguing about which tool is better and get on with the job.


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