Dan Cass
Dan Cass is a lobbyist with over 20 years’ experience working in the environment movement, both in Australia and overseas. He is principal of Dan Cass & Co.
Dan has a B.Sc. (Hons) in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Melbourne and used to be a science museum curator. As a student he worked for Australia’s first climate campaigning organisation, Greenhouse Action Australia.
Dan enjoys Melbourne bars, books, art, great coffee, ‘The Internet’ and his new Onya 8 bike. He misses Sydney’s surf beaches, museums and that Harbour.
Articles by Dan Cass
Clean bowled in cricket, but they’ll clean us up in energy
Watching a Test match is a great teacher of the virtues that make for success in life: determination, strategy and…... Read more
Mean, green, American fighting machines
When the US Marine Corp establish themselves a new home in Darwin, they will bring some seriously green equipment and…... Read more
The carbon tax is a done deal. Now stop your whingeing
You’ve put a price on carbon and stumped up $13 billion dollars for renewable energy. It doesn’t sound very hard…... Read more
Visionary millionaire puts the “art” into Hobart
I have just returned from three days in Hobart, attending the opening of MONA, the Museum of Old and New…... Read more
What can the US learn from us about the oil spill
President Obama’s administration and BP’s critics in Congress will be keen to read the Montara oil spill report that Mr…... Read more
Dinner with Malcolm, and how the Libs can regroup
Last July I had dinner with Malcolm Fraser and a small group in the Karagheusian Room in University House at…... Read more
Swan says climate is a key challenge but fails to meet it
If this Budget is supposed to get Australia doing its part in solving “the greatest moral challenge of our time”,…... Read more
Last-minute Budget item: cash for energy symbols
For three weeks I have been anxiously waiting for an answer from President Barack Obama. Not to me, unfortunately, but…... Read more
Volt heads can rev up, as I’ve test-driven the future
Last week I was bored to death reading coal industry propaganda and needed some inspiration, so I took $50,000 worth…... Read more
Solar power puts China and Japan on top of the world
This week there is an amazing discussion going on in Tokyo between Chinese and Japanese companies, academics and Government representatives…... Read more
Put coal kings in the dock for their crimes
Have you ever wondered why it is that nobody is going to jail for causing climate change? You or I…... Read more
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The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
Cash mobs aren’t so flash
For a moment in the mid-naughties, they were the coolest of all cool social media-fuelled meme-thingos.…
If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television
“Some day, far into the future, this here machine will become a powerful medium with the potential…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
