2016-03-19 18:53
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Ecology and economics share a common root: the Greek word oikos, meaning “home†or “a place to liveâ€.
Oikos is an Australian environmental policy blog focussing on the connections between the environment and the economy.
2016-03-19 18:53
We have a good idea now of what the so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is going to look like, after the Government and Opposition hammered out a deal on Tuesday and it was endorsed… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
If the tax structure from early last century prevailed today, we would have to raise $40 billion from excise and $230 billion from tariffs to meet today's revenue demand. At that rate the ex… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Apparently today is Blog Action Day for Climate Change and I thought I'd throw it open to my wonderful blog readers.I find myself alternatively optimistic and despairing on climate change… Read More
2009-10-07 22:51
I saw Maclolm Turnbull interviewed the other night saying that he supported emissions trading and reminding people that emissions trading was indeed government policy under the previous Howa… Read More
2009-10-06 10:56
As I've talked about before (The great permit give-away), one of the big debates in emissions trading is whether to auction most of the permits or give them away free to industry. Under the… Read More
2009-09-23 09:21
Strange weather in Australia recently: record high winter temperatures, bushfires in spring, hail the size of cricket balls overnight and we woke this morning to an apocalyptic orange glow i… Read More
2009-09-09 22:45
I remember reading a nice exposition of the efficient markets hypothesis on Andrew Leigh's blog a while back:So if we believe shoppers are as rational as traders (why not?), then there shoul… Read More
2009-09-09 22:16
The main difference between a carbon tax (emissions tax) and an emissions trading scheme is this. With a carbon tax, the price of emitting a unit of greenhouse gases is fixed but the total l… Read More
2009-09-09 05:02
Yes, those $900 cheques from Uncle Kevin can kill. That’s the finding of a new study in the Bulletin on Aging and Health:Many studies find that households increase their consumption a… Read More
2009-09-06 23:45
Four Corners tonight is on progress with "clean coal" (also known as carbon capture and storage, CCS): coal-fired power stations that capture the greenhouse gases emitted from burning the co… Read More
2009-09-05 01:00
OK, I'm being a bit trivial but indulge me. Sweeping generalisations and grand rhetorical statements bug me at the best of times, but particularly when they're quite obviously wrong.Ziggy Sw… Read More
2009-09-02 21:45
One of the bigger areas of debate in emissions trading is how to allocate permits. The purists (eg, Garnaut) suggest they should all be auctioned while political realities suggest a large c… Read More
2009-09-02 02:55
If you wanted to offset the carbon emissions of a flight, you can buy carbon offsets from any number of providers. But the price for offsets done in different ways or certified under differ… Read More
2009-09-01 07:07
The National Preventative Health Taskforce has just publicly released its strategy "Australia: The Healthiest Country by 2020".For probably the first time ever, life expectancy in Australia… Read More
2009-08-24 12:00
Some good news following last week's defeat in the Senate of the Australian emissions trading scheme. The Senate is voting today on the big increase in the mandatory renewable energy target… Read More
2009-08-17 07:26
13 September is Sustainable House Day. Greenies around Australia open their homes and share their stories and tips for making your home greener. Learn and be inspired.HT: Greenfoot Read More
2009-08-13 23:10
I'm not a huge fan of simple game theory analyses of international climate change negotiations (even though I've been guilty of using them myself) because they tend to model each country as… Read More
2009-08-12 21:00
Some common sense observations about wind power's potential in the UK from The Times: it deserves attention as fossil fuels diminish, it has low capital costs, it's plentiful, it's intermitt… Read More
2009-08-11 21:30
One area where I think public policy could really help sustainability in Australian cities is by making cycling an easier transport choice. Sydney strikes me as crying out for measures to en… Read More
2009-08-11 02:30
Malcolm Turnbull yesterday released an alternative carbon plan: "greener, cheaper, smarter". Sounds great. And finally some opposition policy on climate change. Well, not quite. The plan is… Read More
2009-08-10 03:20
An article in the August issue of Energy Policy suggests that people idling their cars (leaving the motor running when stopped) accounts for a surprising and mostly unnecessary 1.6% of US gr… Read More
2009-08-10 03:19
Hi all,Well Oikos is back. Welcome readers old and new!Oikos is a blog I started in November 2005, while enrolled in a Masters in environmental economics and not long after moving from an en… Read More
2009-07-22 11:43
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2008-11-11 23:52
One interesting announcement in yesterday's NSW state mini-budget was the introduction of "congestion tolls" on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tunnel: the toll will vary depending on the time… Read More
2008-10-22 23:49
Andrew Norton has an interesting article on some unintended consequences of proposed reforms to Victoria's local government legislation. Reforms desgined to reduce the potential for conflict… Read More
