Past Programs
Environment
Managing the boom Read Transcript
28/06/2008
The Kimberley region of WA is an area that contains several national parks as well as internationally significant galleries of Indigenous rock art.
The Kimberley also contains valuable deposits of minerals, precious stones such as diamonds, and large reserves of natural gas.
So what are the competing interests of employment, development and environmental and cultural heritage?
Bottlemania
28/06/2008
Bottled water is about as ubiquitous as any consumer product on earth these days.
But is the whole bottled water phenomenon a triumph of marketing over commonsense?
What are the actual health benefits of a product that can cost 10,000 times as much as tap water?
Going Green
16/02/2008
A green cities conference which was held this week in Sydney.
The conference brought together some big property developers and planners, together with local government and guests from overseas.
Protecting the Danube
26/01/2008
The Danube is the second longest river in Europe and supports 81 million people.
The health of the river is critical to the economies of many European countries.
Which is why -- and even though many of the countries along the Danube are not members of the EU -- they have agreed to meet strict EU water protection standards.
Climate California
05/01/2008
In August 2006 the Californian state legislature introduced a suite of strong actions to change behaviour around global warming.
But what has happened since these measures were introduced?
This interview was first broadcast in 2007.
