FET (old posts)

In 1980, prominent environmentalist, and author of the book The Population Bomb , Paul Ehrlich, entered into a wager with the late cornucopi...

On a leisurely Saturday afternoon, I ventured down to the ferry with fiancé, child, friend and dog in tow, to take a trip across the river t...

The Queensland government is currently phasing in fluoride to the reticulated water supply in many parts of the State. Yet there is by no m...

If my last blog, about the peak of global oil production and a sustained fall in global production, contained an ounce of truth, some intere...

We have reached the lowest oil price for about a year – down around $70 a barrel from a peak of over $140 a barrel not so long ago. Is this...

Contemporary economists know that money doesn’t buy happiness. I take that back. Economists have trouble even defining money or happiness....

Just a short note this time. I have written a new wikipedia entry for the Rebound Effect - which many of you would know is the topic of my ...

No, the title is not original and there is a good reason for this – choices have long been a source of concern for many people. And in rece...

It has come up for discussion in blogs, at bbqs, and international conventions, but we are still no closer to a workable solution for valuin...

I remember a quirky line from Richard Branson’s autobiography. It went something like this – if you borrow $40,000 from the bank and can’t ...