Hot August Night is now an Aussie experience. Our climate has changed over 50 years, but there is a real danger our conversation about it are as obscure as the lyrics on Neil Diamond's iconic album.

As voters, we are embedding a cabal of political eunuchs, neutered by our inability to aspire beyond the trivial, the expedient and our endless ambition to extract and consume all within our reach.

Trump’s reckless policy to ‘Drill. Drill. Drill.’ must and can be counterbalanced by international action at government, investment and community levels.

We need positive action on climate and biodiversity, a new construct for living as part of rather than in conflict with nature, in order to meet our responsibilities for the health, wellbeing and, yes, even prosperity of future generations.

Attribution of emissions outputs to climate change and specific environmental impacts is a nonsense legal view setting an unfortunate precedent for expansion of fossil fuel extraction and export in Australia.

Ecosystem protection and restoration more likely to become a byproduct of government policy and budget priorities in the transition to renewable energy than clear commitment to environmental preservation.

Climate change and biodiversity are flip sides of the same coin – one interacting and ultimately dependent upon the other. From a human perspective, this makes it impossible to divorce climate action and mitigation from biodiversity protection.

A civilised and prosperous society has a huge responsibility to ensure the welfare of all the ecosystems within which it presides — and of which we are now we are effectively architect and master.

How do you meet the challenge of advocating for climate action is when people’s personal experience of the weather often seems to contradict the science. A cold day in Melbourne had me pondering this.

We should embrace the potential firepower that the finance industry’s focus on risk will bring to the call to action on climate, environment and sustainability.

Volatility in investments has a fantastic habit of creating winners from sinners and losers from choosers.

Public donations at a local Grill’d burger joint might just be an indicator of the environmental priorities of the community.

Greenwashing. The trick for not-for-profit boards will be to rinse off the soap to identify genuine partnership and shared commitment to a common purpose with corporate funders.

For organisations focused locally, there has never been a better time to build a presence and articulate a value proposition that can deliver tangible and demonstrable community outcomes.