Opinion articles

Here is a selection of opinion pieces and interviews by Dan Cass.

Suntech published my political analysis of the state of solar industry advocacy, on its company blog Suntech Connect.

Victoria’s Liberal Premier Ted Bailieu and the Federal Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, want Victoria to export brown coal. I spoke about the issue on ABC 774 and wrote a piece for ABC Opinion.

The Punch published a piece where I say that Australia is at a turning point in its history, where we have to choose may embrace renewable energy or fall behind the rest of the world.

The ABC published a piece about Australia’s electricity industry and how Senator Christine Milne, leader of the Australian Greens, it taking it on.

The Age and ABC Online ran versions of my criticism of international climate law.

Rooted, Crikey’s environment blog, carried my commentary comparing the progressive clean energy plans of US President Barack Obama with the incoming Liberal-National Party government in Queensland.

In October 2010 I went to the Maldives to promote its plan to make the switch to 100% renewable energy within a decade, which I wrote about on Climate Spectator. (You need to sign up to read Climate Spectator, which you should be reading anyway).

Dan attended Japan’s biggest photovoltaic energy event and wrote on the ascendancy of Japan and China in solar markets for The Punch.

An enthusiastic piece in The Punch about electric cars, inspired by a test-drive of the new Toyota Prius.

A post written when the Liberal Party replaced Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott was republished on Peak Energy – the individual blog of Big Gav, one of the leading Australian contributors to the Oil Drum.

The Sydney Morning Herald asked Dan to write a longer version of an opinion piece on environmentalism which first ran in The Manic Times, Charles Firth’s short-lived experiment in Gonzo Journalism.

An article on science, technology and the impact climate change has on our concepts of progress ran in the Canberra Times and on the ABC’s online opinion site.

The Punch stirred some controversial reactions when it ran an opinion piece about climate crimes and the campaign for an International Court of the Environment.

Andrew Frost interviewed me for Artscape on ABC TV at The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, speaking about DAMP and climate.

My review of the Museum of Old and New Art drew the only ever blog response by David Walsh, the MONA’s founder.

A review of the Biennale of Sydney 2008, which won the Biennale’s blog competition.

A Collection of Desire, which was purchased by the City of Melbourne when it opened its City Library in 2003.

Some printed articles are available as PDFs on Scribd.

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