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Friday December 5, 2008

Brumby told to halt the sprawl

Damning report on Victoria's environmental health calls for halt to urban sprawl and dramatic changes to citizens' "unsustainable" materialism and consumption.

Approval 'needs an overhaul'

The environment must become central to all policy development in government as part of an overhaul of approval processes for major projects in Victoria, says report.

'If everyone lived like Victorians, we'd need four planets'

The man behind the landmark report on the state of Victoria's environment practises what he preaches.

Big house on the hill is a dream come true

Once every few weeks, Cheryl Lanza sees kangaroos hopping through her housing estate on Mount Ridley, in Craigieburn.

Suburban Liberal Party branch attacked for holding a climate science forum that will hear only one, unfashionable point of view: that climate change has nothing to do with skyrocketing greenhouse emissions.

Plant's carbon bill 'too high'

Viable carbon capture unlikely by 2020

Japan to mandate carbon labelling

Carbon scheme unworkable: economist

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Whale Watch

Japanese whalers claim vindication

Japanese scientists are claiming vindication for their hotly opposed, and lethal, whaling research with a discovery that Antarctic minke whales are fast growing thinner.

Authorities defend whale calf's death

Community anger over death of whale

Humpback whale calf faces grim fate

Dispute saps bid for whale truce

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Conservation

Where the wild things are

Your backyard could be home to an endangered species.

Pooling resources

Crunch time for the Gippsland Lakes

John Cameron: The Garrett in my shed might save the universe

Government up a gum tree over protection plan

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Water Issues

Householders told to use less water, power

The State Government to expand its war on over-consumption in Melbourne households with an attack on water, electricity and garbage beginning within months.