Contaminated soil could be cleaned up by that picture of freshness: the sunflower! Great news for renewables in Qld – and hopefully for human rights around the country!
National Human Rights Act is one step closer (Amnesty International)
“High rewards, no regrets:” Council gas bans could save new-build home owners $600 a year on energy (Renew Economy)
Queensland promises $26 billion renewables splurge in state budget (Renew Economy)
Commercial and industrial rooftop solar could fill Eraring gap, and turn buildings into batteries (Renew Economy)
Sunflowers: Nature’s Radiation Cleanup Crew and Soil Restorers (Bomboh blog)
Electric taxi startup GoBlu lays down green challenge to Uber (The Driven)
“A better way to live:” Indigenous-owned solar microgrid lights way for energy democracy (One Step Off The Grid)
Newly protected Edgbaston Reserve in Queensland home to 37 species found nowhere else in the world (ABC News)
Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the Daintree (Mongabay News)
Old Tassie wind farm to debut new turbine shutdown tech, in bid to protect eagles (Renew Economy)
Eraring deal signals death of baseload power in Australia, and Dutton’s nuclear fantasy (Renew Economy)
“We haven’t been consulted:” Coal town on transition to renewables is not interested in nuclear (Renew Economy)
Biggest battery on Queensland grid gets energised (Renew Economy)
New $150m fund targets net zero “disruption” start-ups across energy, transport, recycling (Renew Economy)
Long-duration storage – alternative technologies ramping up to fill “missing middle” (Renew Economy)
Australian logistics giant to add 300 electric trucks, vans and mobile chargers (The Driven)