How the Carbon Farming Initiative works
Voiceover (Male): As farmers know carbon in the soil makes the land more productive but carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing climate change with more ...
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Real estate agent transforms
My name is Tony McManus I work for PRD Nationwide in Geelong. I work in sales and management of a real estate agent. I think we have taken a fairly conservative ...
Your electricity bill
The Australian Government’s plan to move Australia towards a clean energy future includes putting a price on the carbon pollution produced by our biggest polluters, including power stations. But the ...
Simplot Australia
Voice over: The move to a clean energy future will see factories and businesses equipped with new technology as well as the creation of whole industries in the renewable energy ...
Carbon Farming Overview
Voiceover: A clean energy future promises many benefits. Sustainable energy sources reduced pollution and improved productivity among them. The Carbon Farming Initiative offers an opportunity for farmers and others concerned ...
Tweed Shire Council
Voiceover: The Carbon Farming Initiative is an opportunity for a range of land based sectors including landfill operators to be part of the Australian Governments clean energy future. The voluntary ...
Glenryan Tree Planting
Voiceover: Australia’s farmers have a long record of innovation and adaptation. The Carbon Farming Initiative an opportunity to be part of the Australian Governments clean energy future is a voluntary ...
Grantham Piggery
Voiceover: Australia’s pig farmers have a long record of innovation and adaptation. The Carbon Farming Initiative, an opportunity to be part of the Australian governments clean energy future is a ...
Silos Sustainable Winery
Voice over: Over the next 40 years we will see in Australia the creation of six million jobs in businesses of the future. Many businesses are already changing the way ...
Lifesaving energy
Narrator: They help save lives on our beaches everyday, but recently surf lifesavers in Tathra have been saving energy as well. Local fundraising efforts and assistance from the Bega Valley ...
Farmer of sun and wind
Narrator: The Osborne's have been farming the Southern Tablelands for generations. Installing a commercial capital wind farm as well as a solar PV array on his Lake George property, Harry
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An inspiring community leader
Narrator: Community leader Matthew Nott has a long history of climate action in NSW. Responsible for the Lifesaving Energy campaign that has seen numerous surf clubs and fire stations in
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PM’s post legislation address
Friends, just after noon yesterday, the government’s Clean Energy legislation was passed by the Senate. This is an historic day in Australian public life. One of those moments where the federal parliament ...
Household assistance: singles
I'm Mick. I'm 25 years old, single, working my way around Australia. I make around $670 a week - that's an annual income of $35,000. From 1 July 2012, the Government's tax ...
How does carbon pricing work?
Australia produces about 500 million tonnes of carbon pollution each year, making it one of the top polluters in the world. Currently, polluting is free. Generating pollution has a cost. It’s ...
Clean Energy Future plan explained
The Government's plan for a clean energy future includes four key components. Firstly, the establishment of a carbon price. Secondly, support for renewable energy. Thirdly, to support improvements in energy efficiency. ...
Assistance for self-funded retirees
I'm Brian, and I'm Anne. We retired a few years ago and we really enjoy spending time with our dogs, and working in the garden. We worry about climate change. We want ...
Household assistance: families
I'm Tim. I work full-time in web development and earn $60,000 a year. I'm Nadi. We have two little boys. I look after the twins and work part-time. I earn just ...
Geothermal energy
We’re on Australia’s largest land-based drilling rig, at a place called Innamincka, in the middle of the desert in central Australia. The granite body here is about 1000km2 in area and ...
Benefits of a carbon price
Australia’s economy has developed without considering the costs of carbon pollution. Currently, polluting is free. And Australians are the highest carbon polluters per person in the developed world. Carbon pricing is not ...
Renewable potential
DR WONHAS: When you look at our continent, it has massive resources of any form of renewable energy you can think of. DOONE: Well it's quite amazing really, this 1000km2 granite ...
Employment opportunities
MILES: There's great opportunities for learning and education in the renewable energy industry, for all sorts of people – for apprentices, for engineers, for planners. RENEE: The opportunity for training people ...
Cutting carbon pollution
David McInnes, Group Manager Sustainability, Linfox: "We did a review of our carbon footprint and we set a target of a 15% reduction by 2010, in our rate of carbon emissions. ...
Solving Australia’s energy puzzle
My name is Alex Wonhas, I'm the director of the Energy Transformed Flagship in CSIRO. We are really trying to solve Australia's energy puzzle, and trying to develop the new ...
Creating a clean energy future
Renee Vincent and Rede Ogden, Directors, Ogden Power: "We're a small business based in Alice Springs. We install and maintain solar power systems - both grid connected and stand-alone … I ...
Why act on carbon pollution now?
The majority of scientists around the world agree that climate change is a result of human activity, and we can avoid the worst impacts by reducing pollution. Climate change is predicted ...
Household assistance
Vicki Horrigan, Member, Hepburn Wind: "To me the most inspiring thing is that a community of this size can build two turbines." Rod May, Mayor, Hepburn Shire Council: "They're capable of providing enough ...
Opportunities in renewables
This is Capital Wind Farm which Infigen built, and I work for Infigen. I'm a development manager so I'm working on a few of our solar projects on the development stage ...
Radio: Household assistance
Under a carbon price, only Australia’s biggest polluters will have to pay for the carbon they emit.
But we recognise they may pass some of these costs on… that’s why more
...Radio: Cutting carbon pollution
Under a carbon price, our biggest polluters will have to pay for every tonne of carbon they emit - creating an incentive to come up with better, cleaner ways of
...Radio: Creating a clean energy future
Across Australia, people are already working towards a clean energy future. But a carbon price will help us do more. It's not a tax on individuals - it's a charge paid
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Australia’s clean energy future
Lyndon Frearson - General Manager, CAT Projects "We need to think through energy beyond just this year or even the next decade." Miles George - Managing Director, Infigen Energy "For a long time, ...
The impacts of climate change
The major impacts of climate change are those that are directly related to temperature and there are two of them that we can point to straightaway. One is heatwaves, and ...
Prime Minister Julia Gillard launches the Clean Energy Future website
Welcome to the Clean Energy Future website. This website was created to give you all the facts about how Australia’s carbon price will work: what it means for the environment, what ...
Mark Dreyfus provides energy efficiency tips
There's lots of things that every Australian can do to save energy and save money around the home. Things like; using a clothes line instead of a clothes dryer, which can save ...
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