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Australia has long been a nation of primary producers, of farmers and miners who go out into regional and outback areas and contend with whatever nature may throw at them to provide the food, fibre and raw materials that we need to survive and thrive.

Unleash your intellectual curiosity with our guide to 20 recommended books by the philanthropist and entrepreneur Bill Gates.

Evan Harp got to sit down with two people from the panel, Tumelo's Georgia Stewart and Tom Morgan to dig deeper on the polycrisis

By John Konrad (gCaptain) As China’s lockdown lifts and the world looks to the future with hope that this marks the final chapter of the worst pandemic since the Great...

Of the 115 books I’ve read in 2022, these were my favorites touching on business trends that influence investing strategies, in order of publication.

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Commentary More than 80 percent of global GDP is covered by national net-zero targets. Strip away the hype, ...

That is the real problem Smil portrays in his book:  the fact that climate change will have to have a truly global solution.

In this essay, climate scientist Richard Somerville analyzes his efforts to reduce his home's greenhouse gas emissions to near zero in light of a recent book by Vaclav Smil, "How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future." Smil makes the case for how extremely difficult it will be, and how very long it is likely to take, to wean the entire world, not just one house, from fossil fuels.

The five books on Bill Gates' summer reading list cover topics like gender equality and the climate crisis, but Gates insists they don't "feel heavy."