Carbon
Tax Special Edition
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How does carbon
pricing work? Which sectors in Australia are the biggest carbon emitters?
Read our Carbon Tax Fast Facts
to find out more about the Carbon Tax.
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The
Carbon Tax and Ethical Investments
The government's plan
to introduce a carbon tax in July 2012 is a positive development for ethical
investors both from an ethical and an investment point of view. By making
companies pay to pollute, the tax will encourage everyone, and particularly the
large greenhouse gas polluters, to move towards energy efficiency and clean
energy.
Ethical investors win
because the tax will help the environment and greatly improve the sustainability
of many companies; yet overall it will be only a small financial cost to many of
the companies in ethical portfolios, and help small and innovative clean energy
companies to develop....(Read the full
article)
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Are you
carbon-taxed to exhaustion? The Winter Warming: Weekend Retreat 12-14
August will allow you time to replenish yourself with beautiful vegetarian food,
including wine, meditation, yoga and visual art in the foothills of Mt
Tibrogargan. To find out more you can email Jennifer Long
Retreats or click
here to view the flyer.
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