Special Features
China
Listen to essential background from the archive and find up-to-the-minute content as Saturday Extra reports direct from the World Expo in Shanghai. [more...]
The Future of Coal (Video Presentation)
Coal is a crucial fuel and it's growing in importance even though it is one of the key emitters of greenhouse gases. So how do we simultaneously invest in a safe climate, keep the lights burning here and elsewhere, keep Australians working, and ensure we don't send the problem to others to fix up? It's what they call a 'wicked' problem, whenever you come up with a solution, it seems to present other problems. [more...]
Creative Thinkers
In this series Geraldine Doogue speaks to five very different writers and thinkers and invites them to reflect on ideas that have influenced them, how their views have changed, and their thinking around some of the significant dilemmas we face this century, from climate change to the changing world order. [more...]
California's Green Dream
In California the government has mandated for an 80% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2050, and introduced a range of really innovative measures to develop a green economy. Saturday Extra profiles some of the developments in California's green sector. [more...]
