Jim Green

  • Sydney's nuclear target

    The terrorist attack in the United States on September 11 has led to renewed calls for the Australian government to cancel its plan to build a 20-megawatt nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights. But the

  • Green parties and Bush's 'war on terrorism'

    Green parties around the world have differing opinions on planned US-led military strikes on Afghanistan in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most have expressed concern about military attacks, but without opposing them outright.

  • Kyoto Protocol: Emissions Impossible?

    How should environmentalists progress the fight against greenhouse polluters in the wake of the compromise struck on the Kyoto Protocol at the United Nations conference in Bonn, Germany in late July? And should environmentalists demand

  • Nuclear experts slam reactor plan

    A report written by a US nuclear consultancy firm calls the bluff on the federal government's claim that a new nuclear reactor is required in Australia to produce medical isotopes. The report, titled Alternatives to a 20 Megawatt

  • UNITED STATES: The world's number one rogue nation

    BY JIM GREEN & SEAN HEALY In just six months as "globocop", United States President George W. Bush has pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, sabotaged the Biological Weapons Convention, sped ahead missile "defence" plans

  • Australia rains on greenhouse talks

    Australian government delegates played spoiler at the United Nations climate change conference, held in Bonn, Germany from July 16-23, where delegates from 180 countries met to finalise details on the Kyoto Protocol on reducing

  • Putting the brakes on urban sprawl

    Forests and farmland eaten up, watersheds paved over, noise and air pollution from road traffic — a seemingly endless list of problems confronts the 2.85 billion people who reside in urban agglomerations. And the problem is rapidly

  • Senate inquiry opposes Lucas Heights reactor plan

    A federal senate committee has slammed plans for a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights. The committee's majority report, released on May 23, is is a joint production of the Labor Party and the

  • Environmentalists attack budget

    Environment groups have slammed the May 22 federal budget for failing to provide much-needed funding for environmental repair, for creative accounting and disguising corporate welfare as environmental reform. The Coalition government

  • Maralinga: 'An act of indefensible callousness'

    After years of denial and deceit, the British government has admitted that military personnel were used in radiation experiments during the nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga in South Australia in the 1950s. Confirming statements

  • Canberra covers for Bush on greenhouse

    The Australian government has been the main accomplice of the United States in its efforts to kill the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. The US government's strategy was spelt out in an April 1 state department cable to US