Dan Cass

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

Clean bowled in cricket, but they’ll clean us up in energy

30 Dec 11 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

Mean, green, American fighting machines

18 Nov 11 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

The carbon tax is a done deal. Now stop your whingeing

08 Nov 11 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

Visionary millionaire puts the “art” into Hobart

29 Jan 11 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

What can the US learn from us about the oil spill

18 Jun 10 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

Dinner with Malcolm, and how the Libs can regroup

26 May 10 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

Swan says climate is a key challenge but fails to meet it

12 May 10 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

Last-minute Budget item: cash for energy symbols

10 May 10 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

10 Aug 09 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

30 Jun 09 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

03 Jun 09 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

The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou

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If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television

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choice ringside rantings

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]

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No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops

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