Green Bans Movement, A ustralia

Abstract

The Australian green bans movement lasted from 1970 to 1975. It was the first such action in the world. It occurred when builders' laborers (BLs) took the unusual action of refusing to work on environmentally or socially undesirable construction and a significant social movement developed in support of these bans. The movement saved Sydney from much of the devastation that would otherwise have been wrought by developers and had international ramifications within environmental politics.

SAR interferometry in post-seismic ground deformation detection related to the 2001 Bhuj earthquake, India

“…The region near the epicentre has suffered maximum upliftment and the distribution of aftershock activities indicates that the rupture zone is located north of Bhachau and west of Rapar. This positive change in ground and ponding in an area about 15 km WNW of the reported USGS epicentre has been suggested by Burgmann (2009) …”

From green jobs to Green New Deal: What are the questions?

“…Predictably, this framing makes many people wary of proposals for stronger environmental policies: indeed, one may infer that this is what motivates the relentless dissemination of ‘jobs versus environment’ ideology. However, an alternative ‘jobs and environment’ approach developed strong roots in Australia during the Green Bans of the 1970s, leading to Jack Munday’s formation of ‘Environmentalists for Full Employment’ (Burgmann and Burgmann, 1998; Munday, 1981). Although initially slow to influence the labour movement, the latter type of thinking had increasing impact during the next two decades.…”