Tag Archives: climate change

Energy, Innovation, technical capability, and common sense.

Posted on June 3, 2014 by strategyaudit

It seems to me that the most important emerging driver of success in the economy that must drive innovation and value delivery, is the intersection of technical capability and power generation. Oil has driven the geo politics of the C … Continue reading →

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Have we lost it?

Posted on March 24, 2014 by strategyaudit

Until I was about 10 years old, I lived in a little cottage at North Avalon, and used to walk to primary school through the sandhills, along the beach, then to  school, and back. It sometimes took longer than it … Continue reading →

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Defining the future of agriculture

Posted on September 16, 2013 by strategyaudit

Most of the really great innovation that happens has as a core component, a re-definition of what the future should look like. From Orville and Wilbur Wright, to Henry Ford, Martin Luther King and Steve Jobs, the words they used  explained … Continue reading →

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4 Challenges of Urban agriculture.

Posted on September 11, 2013 by strategyaudit

As our cities continue to suck people off the land, and grow bigger, swallowing adjacent farm land, we face the challenge of how we feed ourselves into the future. It may not be a problem now, or in 5 years, … Continue reading →

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The cloud grows on trees

Posted on October 3, 2012 by strategyaudit

Talking about “the cloud” is common around the BBQ’s I go to, (pass another beer please, the sausages need turning). However, it seems few of my verbal combatants have any idea that the cloud, is, somehow, in fact, an industrial … Continue reading →

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Marketing problem of the climate debate.

Posted on March 21, 2012 by strategyaudit

Marketing is all about defining the problem we want to solve, poor definition leads to poor analysis and solution implementation. In the climate “debate” to give it more credit that it deserves, we have absolutely failed to include the capital … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing electricity

Posted on March 20, 2012 by strategyaudit

On March 14, IPART, the NSW Utility regulator made public a decision that put a price of 6-8 cents for energy exported to the grid, compared to the current cost of 30-44 cents for any power consumed from the grid. … Continue reading →

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Will Moore’s Law work for renewable energy??.

Posted on March 2, 2012 by strategyaudit

Will Moore’s Law, validated over nearly 50 years in digital technology development,  also apply to renewable energy? This notion has interested me for a while, and it seems that  currently our consumption of fossil fuel is a mirror image of … Continue reading →

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Carbon emotionalism

Posted on September 27, 2011 by strategyaudit

Am I the only one, or are others getting as sick as I am of the shallow, cliché ridden utterances of both sides of this “debate”? The government is pushing their carbon tax, which will become law on July 1 … Continue reading →

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Moore’s law and renewable energy.

Posted on September 4, 2011 by strategyaudit

Gordon Moore  first promulgated his now well know law in an “Electronics” magazine in 1965, that the number of transistors that could be packed onto a standard chip would double every year for at least 10 years. Moore updated his … Continue reading →

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Carbon switcheroo

Posted on August 4, 2011 by strategyaudit

Last time I bang on  about the anomalies surrounding the carbon tax, promise.  I find it ironic that the party of so called free enterprise is calling for taxpayers to fund all the pain of the necessary adjustments, whilst the … Continue reading →

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An unseemly rush to the trough.

Posted on July 24, 2011 by strategyaudit

Irrespective of your views on climate change, the carbon tax, global warming, and the need for change, the sight of all the spivs and carpetbaggers mixed amongst the crowd setting out to get their noses into the new troughs created … Continue reading →

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One tiny word to alter the carbon debate.

Posted on July 21, 2011 by strategyaudit

It seems to me that the carbon “debate” currently taking place fails on the most basic level of dealing with any of the facts. It is simply a political poop throwing contest, where the only success factor in either of … Continue reading →

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Politicians God Complex and the carbon tax.

Posted on July 21, 2011 by strategyaudit

We all understand the “God Complex” the situation where someone proclaims their universal truth about a complex problem. My solution is the right one, no argument!. Problem is that complex problems are really, well,  complex, hard to understand, and there … Continue reading →

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Business & Sustainability

Posted on June 9, 2011 by strategyaudit

Is there a win win here, does being sustainable environmentally mean a compromise to commercial sustainability,  or is environmental sustainability a foundation of commercial sustainability? Increasingly  the latter is becoming the more obvious answer. As the green debate widens, and … Continue reading →

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Rip van i-Winkle

Posted on May 31, 2011 by strategyaudit

Just imagine Rip going to sleep in 1991. His world was made up of pyramid shaped organisations organised geographically, and most likely he worked for one person in the same location. Rip got his news in the paper the next … Continue reading →

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Strategy is making difficult choices.

Posted on May 30, 2011 by strategyaudit

Strategy is all about making choices about where available resources will be allocated, considering both the benefits and risks of alternatives in the context of opportunity cost.  In this country we have reserves of natural gas tied up in seams … Continue reading →

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Carbon tax agnostic

Posted on March 24, 2011 by strategyaudit

 I am getting pretty sick of being told by blathering pollies and nuts from both sides that I am either:  1. An ignorant climate change skeptic, or 2.  A proponent of a new tax that will the “roon of us all” … Continue reading →

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Untangling the carbon tangle.

Posted on March 13, 2011 by strategyaudit

If Australia was a business, considering the challenge of what to do about of carbon emissions would have a couple of characteristics that would have engaged the country’s boardroom: It is pretty obvious that some legislative framework will emerge to … Continue reading →

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Monty Pythons Canberra Party.

Posted on March 8, 2011 by strategyaudit

If Australia’s management has been slow to pick up on the need for intensive and innovative energy management programs, is it little wonder, with the litany of indecision, populism, back-stabbing, and just plain lies eminating from Canberra. The Howard government announced an … Continue reading →

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