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How climate-friendly is an electric car? It all comes down to where you live

Image: ShutterstockIf you’re thinking about buying an electric vehicle, whether due to soaring fuel prices or to lower your greenhouse gas emissions, where you...

IPCC finds the world has its best chance yet to slash emissions – if it seizes the opportunity

Image: ShutterstockThe world has its best chance yet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, but hard and fast cuts are needed across all sectors...

Grattan on Saturday: Scott Morrison has a bingle or two on the campaign trail

  Image: James Ross/AAPIt seemed remarkable chutzpah that Scott Morrison, back from Glasgow where Australia remains a criticised laggard despite its embrace of a...

‘The Australian way’: how Morrison trashed brand Australia at COP26

  Ray Noble/AP/AAPAs the COP26 climate talks wind up in Glasgow, Australia has again proved itself a climate laggard on the world stage. Prime...

As the world surges ahead on electric vehicle policy, the Morrison government’s new strategy leaves Australia idling in the garage

  Image: ShutterstockThe Morrison government will this week announced its long-awaited electric vehicle strategy, coinciding with COP26 climate change talks underway in Glasgow. The new policy contains some...

A ‘100% renewables’ target might not mean what you think it means. An energy expert explains

  Picture: ShuttlestockIn the global effort to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, achieving a “100% renewables” electricity system is considered ideal.Some Australian...

‘Unjustifiable’: new report shows how the nation’s gas expansion puts Australians in harm’s way

Image: Shuttlestock Australia’s latest emissions data, released this week, contained one particularly startling, and unjustifiable, fact. Against all odds, in a year when emissions fell...

New report shows the world is awash with fossil fuels. It’s time to cut off supply

Australia’s coal production is expected to jump by 34% to 2030, undercutting our climate efforts. Nikki Short/AAP A new United Nations report shows the world’s...

Vegan food’s sustainability claims need to give the full picture

Are veggie burgers the way of the future? Ella Olsson/Flickr The IPCC special report, Climate Change and Land, released last Friday, has found a third...

We need to get rid of carbon in the atmosphere, not just reduce emissions

 Humans have burned 420 billion tonnes of carbon since the start of the industrial revolution. Half of it is still in the atmosphereGetting climate...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.