Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 05/05/2026Low-carbon electricity sources grew faster than demand in 2025, pushing fossil fuels into decline— Solar and wind energy have grown quickly in recent years, but global electricity demand has grown faster. 518057
Dr Archie 🌱 🌈 @archiecurium.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Thank you all for coming along! Some important topics covered - plastics in healthcare, rationalising pathology testing &imaging, nitrous decommissioning and sustainable anaesthesia in lower resource environments 🌱🌍 #asm26akl 152
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Dr Magpie @lightfootsj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026#Asm26Akl @anzca.bsky.social Environmental Sustainability Network Session: Up to 44% of pathology testing is unnecessary. Come on people. Time to rationalise. Time to do things better. Our planet, our future, our health depends on it. 053
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Dr Magpie @lightfootsj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026#Asm26Akl @anzca.bsky.social Environmental Sustainability Network session: Time to decommission leaking hospital reticulated pipeline nitrous oxide systems. It’s a win for the environment and saves a heck of a lot of money. #climatechange #climatehealth @archiecurium.bsky.social 132
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Dr Magpie @lightfootsj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026#Asm26Akl appropriately dressed for the @anzca.bsky.social Environmental Sustainability Network session chaired by @archiecurium.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Offshore wind farms kill whales? (They don’t.) Electric vehicles catch fire more often than petrol cars? (It’s the opposite.) @christiandownie.bsky.social charts how PR firms disregard the public to spread misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...theconversation.comPR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry. 23015
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Cascading, Compound, Concurrent — watchwords you'll be seeing a LOT more as climate risks ramp up Interaction of physical hazards with socioeconomic context, factors & mechanisms will be hugely important in terms of what & how impacts eventuate For instance, are a large number of people directly.. 22818
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/09/2025Colleges and universities are going way too soft on policing AI, Tyler Austin Harper argues. “Institutions of higher learning can abandon their centuries-long educational project,” he writes. “Or they can fight.”bit.lyUniversities Can Abdicate to AI. Or They Can Fight.Too many school leaders have been reluctant to impose harsh penalties for unauthorized chatbot use. 37416
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Scientists Link Major Fossil Fuel Companies to Worsening Heat Waves. The world’s largest fossil fuel companies play a significant role in the worsening climate crisis and it's extreme weather events, including worsening heat waves, according to a new study. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comScientists Link Major Carbon Emitters to Worsening Heat WavesEmissions from the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies play a significant role in extreme weather events, according to a new study. 0156
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 09/09/2025The devastating algal bloom in SA is another dimension of the climate crisis. A climate damage compensation levy on coal and gas exports could raise billions of dollars every year to pay the costs of climate change, without raising prices in Australia. ✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/fossilfuelco...theaus.inMake fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary AustraliansClimate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay... 718084
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 09/09/2025Many have been glad to hear that NSW is finally stopping logging in the long-proposed Great Koala National Park. But in the fine print, the park's creation is "dependent on the successful registration of a carbon project." It's a perverse incentive that has enabled years of habitat destruction. 👇youtu.beThe Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala HabitatYouTube video by The Australia Institute 59752
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Green Theatres Network @greentheatres.online · 09/09/2025@anzca.bsky.social Environmental Sustainability Network Seminar tonight 1800hrs AEST online - HVAC the Sustainability Issue Hidden in Plain sight www.anzca.edu.au/events-and-c... See you there. #greensky #medsky #sustainablehealth #greentheatresanzca.edu.auHVAC - The sustainability issue hidden in plain sight - ANZCAThe “HVAC - The sustainability issue hidden in plain sight” webinar is a free ninety (90)-minute webinar held on Tuesday 9 September 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm AEST 021
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Green Theatres Network @greentheatres.online · 28/08/2025GTN Seminar recording - Updates from the @anzca.bsky.social Environmental Sustainability Network - Dr Archana Shrivathsa #greensky #ansky #medsky youtu.be/JxUpFZyugJo?... @archiecurium.bsky.socialyoutu.beANZCA Environmental Sustainability Network UpdateYouTube video 033
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Text of feedback submitted to Western Australia Museum @wamuseum.bsky.social in protest against their decision to renew their partnership with climate criminals, WoodCIDE, for a further 5 years & to "celebrate" by hosting a 'family-friendly' Woodside Open Day as part of National Science Week 25522
Dr Archie 🌱 🌈 @archiecurium.bsky.social · 13/08/2025#WAAG25 is off and running! At the gorgeous Sofitel Nusa Dua resort in Bali 000
Dr Archie 🌱 🌈 @archiecurium.bsky.social · 06/08/2025WA Green Theatres Network statewide meeting underway! Thanks to our incredibly supportive session sponsors MDA National & Lateral Medical, and everyone for joining #healthcaresustainability #wastereduction 000
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 24/07/2025Get planning processes right, unlock renewable energy generation, and enable every other industry to go green, says economist Nicki Hutley.reneweconomy.com.auEnvironmental laws biggest hurdle to net zero, as pressure mounts to add climate triggerGet planning processes right, unlock renewable energy generation, and enable every other industry to go green, says economist Nicki Hutley. 0113
Dr Archie 🌱 🌈 @archiecurium.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Come join our next WA GTN meeting in person or online on Weds August 6th. You'll learn about operating theatre sustainability developments around WA, network with colleagues and have opportunities to get involved! greentheatres.online/gtnwa-meet/greentheatres.onlineGTN Statewide Meeting August 6th 2025 - Green Theatres NetworkYou are invited to our next GTN WA meeting to network and share ideas on improving the sustainability of operating theatres and hospitals across WA. We are hoping to gather Anaesthetists, surgeons, nu... 131
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Perth researchers scanned 60 adults ~3 months after mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and found lingering aortic inflammation on PET scans, stronger than in people with high cardiovascular risk but no COVID. Even non-hospitalized cases showed vascular effects. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 13415
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 06/07/2025What l, and I mean What, TAF is going on? 75111
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Our fossil fuelled (fooled) premier, Roger Cook. Why is our premier promoting a multinational’s product that poisons the atmosphere, increases global heating, damages unique ancient rock art, & provides little revenue to state coffers? 1/3 2247
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Amber Jade Sanderson is ruling gas *in*… then says, “We’re not ruling anything in or out.” When you rule in gas until 2070, you’re definitely ruling in climate damage for decades, if not centuries. Giving the green light to keep using gas in WA Energy Minister backs in fossil fuel… 13118
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... What cost climate disaster? ‘"It's not just important for our overall economy, it's important for regional WA," Roger Cook [claimed]. But the most recent state budget papers show the shared revenue, or royalties, the project is generating for WA is in rapid decline.’abc.net.auBudget reveals WA oil and gas royalties in rapid declineShared revenue from Australia's largest mainland gas project has dropped by more than 70 per cent in three years, contributing less than 1 per cent of the state's revenue this financial year. 32215
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Climate disaster on steroids: “Despite the North West Shelf contributing “almost nothing” in terms of Australian tax dollars, it will be responsible for emissions greater than dozens of countries & many of the world’s biggest companies.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... #Woodside captured WAtheguardian.comRevealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf projectThe annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries 196
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025“Despite the North West Shelf contributing “almost nothing” in terms of Aust tax dollars, it will be responsible for emissions greater than dozens of countries & many of the world’s biggest companies. It can be hard to get your head around numbers this big.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.comRevealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf projectThe annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries 01615
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... “Yet another legal challenge has been lodged against a contentious gas plant extension in WA's north, arguing the state's previous environment minister [Whitby] failed to properly consider the emissions produced by customers burning gas produced at the facility.”abc.net.auAnother legal hurdle for contentious gas plant extension in WA's northYet another legal challenge has been lodged against Woodside's North West Shelf extension, arguing the state's previous environment minister failed to properly consider the emissions produced by custo... 0104
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Uncanny how these random global weather events just seem to be getting crazier at an accelerating rate. Whatever can it possibly be? 913137
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Hamish @hamishoz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Friends of Australian Rock Art lodge case against WA government rec the North West Shelf. Case is based on fact that the EPA should have considered scope 3 emissions. And they should have. Well done!afr.comEnvironmentalists launch suit to quash North West Shelf approvalA rock art preservation group backed by the Holmes à Court family matriarch has launched a challenge to overturn WA approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf extension. 312944
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Australian Conservation Foundation video. We cannot allow the psychopathic big toxic gas company, #Woodside to expand its dirty, polluting, climate destroying business on the Burrup or on our the North West Shelf. Who want 45 more years of THIS?! 2197
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Hamish @hamishoz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025This the critical minerals narrative which gives license to mining which has somehow separated itself from fossil fuels thanks to CO2 tunnel vision. 012
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 11/06/2025My latest in the @australia.theguardian.com is about the largest obstruction to climate action in a country where an overwhelming majority of people accept the science of climate change. Information silos. #auspol 3479
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025You don’t decrease greenhouse gas emissions by increasing toxic fossil methane gas emissions for 40 more years. 👉🏻👉🏻Life is an IQ test. Believe Roger Cook, Murray Watt, Woodside execs & you’ve failed. 👉🏻The gas will be exported. It’s not for Australia. It’s virtually free to Woodside. Near zero tax. 02412
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025There can be no new fossil fuel www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Australian Youth Climate Coalition WA organiser Jordan Rowand agrees. "every other state’s emissions have gone down since 2005, so the work that we have to do in Western Australia is a lot… we have some big fights ahead of us,"abc.net.auThe premier says WA is helping to reduce global emissions. Is there truth to this?The WA government claims gas produced in WA is needed to help other nations steer clear of coal and decarbonise after the approval of a 40-year extension to the North West Shelf Karratha project. 12514
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 07/06/2025"Just weeks into its second term, the Albanese Government has betrayed its election mandate," writes former BP executive Greg Bourne. trib.al/BdfTKPOtrib.al 0103
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/06/2025Our friends at the Conservation Council of WA are hosting an online screening for the film Corals' Last Stand! It tells the critically important story of the incredible Scott Reef and the fight to protect it 🤿 🕑2pm Sunday June 8th #auspol RSVP for the Zoom link! ⤵ www.gobeyondgas.com.au/clsonlinegobeyondgas.com.auCorals Last Stand - Online ScreeningJoin our online screening of Jane Hammond's new documentary Corals Last Stand to learn about Scott Reef and take action against Woodside's Browse proposal. 18137
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 04/06/2025"Defendants have known for all of Julie’s life that their affirmative misrepresentations and omissions would claim lives. Julie is a victim of Defendants’ conduct. Her lifespan is a bridge between cause and effect" —the 1st wrongful death lawsuit against Big Oil climatecasechart.com/case/leon-v-... 13811
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Great thread explaining why forest offsets are not the answer. And here's a link to the paper - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comPerspectives. Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change: Why our obsession with monetizing forest carbon may be counter productiveStoring carbon in forest ecosystems is commonly promoted as a nature-based solution to climate change in which increases in forest carbon storage are … 32910
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 02/06/2025Millions of women live with delayed diagnoses, dismissed pain and inadequate care. Now, progress is at risk of reversal.tcnv.linkFrom period pain to heart disease, the gender health gap is real – here’s how to close itMillions of women live with delayed diagnoses, dismissed pain and inadequate care. Now, progress is at risk of reversal. 17830
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025These facts matter. Murray Watt and Roger Cook have been making decisions that will negatively impact the lives of future generations in perpetuity; in pursuit of short term profit for a few psychopathic fossil fuel corps. My children will be old age pensioners by the time toxic NWS closes down. 2187
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025youtu.be/xjOyAt7MK00?... Want freedom from the existential threat of climate change? What benefits do we get from a toxic fossil methane gas project that will take the gas for free & export nearly all of it overseas, while massively increasing our climate & rock art destroying carbon emissions?youtu.bePerth protesters rally against extending Australia's largest gas project | ABC NEWSYouTube video by ABC News (Australia) 12314
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025“Woodside’s gas expansion isn’t just a huge policy mistake. It’s a devastating setback for every Austn who’s: Installed solar panels Bought an EV Changed their diet, flown less, or spoken up for climate action Campaigned for emissions reduction targets.” www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/woodsid...lyrebirddreaming.comWoodside’s Gas Expansion Wipes Out Climate Progress - 50 Times OverThe Woodside gas expansion isn’t just a huge policy mistake. It’s a devastating setback for every single Australian who’s: • Installed solar panels. • Bought an EV. • Changed their diet, flown less, o... 1016575
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/05/2025Need proof Big Gas is ripping Australians off? Inpex exported ~$54 billion in gas from the NT Inpex also HASN'T PAID A CENT in ❌Royalties ❌Petroleum Resource Rent Tax ❌Company Tax 🎙️ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol 21327222
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 29/05/2025Watt’s North West Shelf approval exposes the deeper dysfunction at the heart of Australian environmental governance: where the laws are weak, the incentives perverse, and real power lies with the fossil fuel lobbyreneweconomy.com.auMurray Watt’s climate masterclass: How to destroy the planet while pretending to save itWatt’s North West Shelf approval exposes the deeper dysfunction at the heart of Australian environmental governance: where the laws are weak, the incentives perverse, and real power lies with… 18444
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/05/2025AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.fortune.comStudy looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss. 14317125
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 29/05/2025“Pocock says voters have ‘buyer’s remorse’ after Labor approves massive gas development’s 40-year extension Fortescue CEO also says suggestion Australia can lock in fossil fuel projects and claim progress on net zero is ‘concerning’.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....theguardian.comPocock says voters have ‘buyer’s remorse’ after Labor approves massive gas development’s 40-year extensionFortescue CEO also says suggestion Australia can lock in fossil fuel projects and claim progress on net zero is ‘concerning’ 99128
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Congratulations PM. It usually takes about six months after the election for me to become completely disillusioned with the government. With caving into the gas lobby you have set a new benchmark. Barry Lizmore, Ocean Grove @theage letters 1221385
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29/05/2025"Net" zero is little more than a con to maintain fossil fuels. So, what is "real" zero? @richarddenniss.bsky.social joined ABC Radio Illawarra to explain that "real" zero is simple: less bad things & more of the good things. #auspol #climate 512858
Reposted by Dr Archie 🌱 🌈Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 28/05/2025This is so incredibly bad. Australia REJECTED the climate denying 'policies' of the Coalition and this is how Labor interprets it?? 47023