Darren Lewin-Hill led a group of four local climate campaigners meeting with their federal MP, Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson. They weren’t encouraged by his rhetoric.
Earth Hour
PHOTO GALLERY: Turning the lights off around the world
No matter your stance on Earth Hour, this photo gallery is a whole lot of fun. Click on a photo and turn off the lights at some of the world’s biggest landmarks, from the Las Vegas Strip to Greece’s Acropolis.
My Earth Hour dinner party
W H Chong shows just how Earth Hour should be: beeswax candles, a different look at a dimmed Sydney skyline and a convivial dinner party including portraits of interesting guests.
During Earth Hour beware of the Human Achievementistas!
They are like a flock of wild sulphur-crested denialists!
Crikey Says: Climate change, brought to you by dumb and dumber
Earth Hour was never much more than a branding exercise concocted by a major ad agency to make corporations look good. We get that. But does it have to be a reds vs. greens issue?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A people’s bank? It will never work
Crikey readers weigh in on Earth Hour, rude beer and the people’s bank idea.
Earth Hour’s (somewhat empty) new campaign for Copenhagen
Earth Hour may receive the token support they seek online — but how does this translate into real terms at the UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Fitzgibbon, Israel and La Diva Vanstone
Bernie Ecclestone — just a smaller version of Napoleon, according to one Crikey reader.
Earth Hour parliamentary email ruckus
Your taxpayer dollars — and taxpayer-funded IT system — hard at work.
Earth Hour: flicking a switch is far too easy
The problem, then, with purely symbolic actions like Earth Hour. is that they might actually foster cynicism more than dispel it.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
2020 Summit … Wayne Carey … Rudd and Russell Crowe … Earth Hour … household debt … justice for all …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Betfair … Earth Hour - the good, the bad and the ugly … surging rice prices and Cambodia … the UN Security Council … electoral funding in NSW …
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News value, it seems, can be determined by what you sponsor. The contrasts in the reporting of Saturday night’s Earth Hour between Fairfax (sponsors) and News (not sponsoring) were stark. Could they really have been watching the same event?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Earth Hour … The 2020 Summit … Doctors and the drug industry … Arukun and The Australian … Rudd and Blairite spin … Rundle on George W. Bush …
Earth Hour: Sydney turns off turning off
So to the Ugh Boot and the stump-jump plough we can now add Earth Hour as one of Australia’s gifts to the world, writes Michael Pascoe.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Earth Hour … COAG and the Murray-Darling deal … The Oz’s and the SS Macklin … the last act of Orkopoulos … binge drinking … mortgage stress …
Earth Hour: can you trust these people in the dark?
Earth Hour may be the most gratuitous environmental free kick ever paid to corporate Australia, writes Thomas Hunter.
Is Earth Hour about the planet or the plugs?
Earth Hour might have noble aspirations, but the execution is a little murkier, writes Jane Nethercote.
The WWF press conference to launch Earth Hour
Hi everyone, thanks for coming…
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Earth Hour … from Tampa refugee to Kiwi spelling whiz … Mark Latham … The Macquarie infrastructure model is dead … Justine Elliot … JP Morgan’s lawyers …
Earth Hour just another innocent fad
Hula hoops, yo-yos, wide lapels on polyester body shirts – fads and fashions inevitably go global for a while. And so it is with Earth Hour, writes Michael Pascoe.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
What Earth Hour is up against (clue: it’s 7 times the size of Manhattan).
