Articles by Dan Cass

About Dan Cass

Dan Cass has 20 years experience in the environment movement and in broader science and society issues.

Dan Cass & Company is a consultancy he launched in 2010 to provide boutique services to green businesses. Dan helps clients develop better corporate Strategy, PR and Lobbying & networks.

In 2008 Dan joined DAMP, an Australian contemporary art group.


Carbon capture is doomed — is government finally backing away?

If CCS is a failure, then we deserve to know where our money has gone.

Energy: solar, wind technologies and a minister’s pessimism

Australia’s renewable industries already employ 8000-10,000 and turn over $2 billion. They deserve proper support, to help cut energy costs, employ Australians and reduce emissions.

Pentagon: Climate change threat to national security

The Pentagon is set to tell Congress that climate change is a real and present threat to national security. It is a sign of these strange times when the US military’s stance on climate change is closer to Bob Brown’s than that of any major Australian party.

On the slow death of political TV: time for Ecocene TV

When anti-ecological spoilers waste TV air-time, this distracts us from solutions, damaging Australia’s competitiveness and undermining national security. So how about a solution?

Budget 09: fossil fuels exit-strategy mark one

Australians would be alarmed to know that their taxes go to multinational oil, gas and coal corporations but the budget papers do not contain any details, or Ministerial Statements explaining these.