Recently added articles from Ecos:
Celebrating 35 years.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is the 150th issue in Ecos's 35 year history. There are few other magazines in Australia that have spanned such a range of years, let alone one covering environmental research. As such, the magazine's archive represents a fascinating ...
Gore launches a 10-year safe climate plan.(Al Gore)
Aug 01, 2009; ... If Australia is to urgently respond to what is increasingly being considered the climate emergency, it needs a feasible plan for fundamental action this decade. Safe Climate Australia, the new organisation launched by AI Gore in Melbourne last month, has been established to develop one. ...
'Electric driveway' to plug hybrid cars into zero-emission house.
Aug 01, 2009 ... Toyota Prius vehicles are being refitted by CSIRO engineers as part of an 'electronic driveway' initiative to transform family cars into low-emission mobile power units that could feed into low-emission homes. By replacing the small Prius battery pack with a larger one and ...
Remaining paddock trees in peril.(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2009 ... Australia's south-east temperate grazing region could be virtually treeless within decades, according to ANU research recently published in the US-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research team concluded that most of the trees scattered across ...
States' smart moves to save energy.(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2009 ... More than 1 million Victorian households and businesses are a step closer to having internet-linked'smart meters' after CitiPower & Powercor --electricity distribution companies that manage 40 per cent of the state's transmission grid--announced they will commence rollout at the end of ...