Australian Prime Minister John Howard is beginning to sound green. He has put forward a program to spend A$10 billion to conserve water in the face of a multi-year, no-end-in-sight drought, and now has announced a plan to phase out the traditional, highly inefficient incandescent light bulb with florescents (see Syndey Morning Herald and the […]
Read more...Unless you are in the advertising business or in England, the A$180 million advertising campaign, “So Where the Bloody Hell Are You?” probably went unnoticed. It was a creative success and commercial failure, since tourism to Australia fell while the ads ran. Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s latest stunt, criticizing Barack Obama for criticizing the […]
Read more...This story hasn’t gotten much coverage in the US, but Australia, which has never had abundant water, has gone through a prolonged drought which appears to be becoming semi-permanent. This is particularly problematic, not simply in terms of quality of living, but also because Australia is a major agricultural exporter (wheat and cattle), and a […]
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