CLIMATE: "City is 'one big lab' for green ideas"

The Canberra Times
29 October 2008

Canberra has the intellectual capital on tap to become Australia's most innovative city in meeting the local and global challenges of climate change, the head of a new research institute says.

The chief executive of the Australian National University's new cross-disciplinary Climate Change Institute, Professor Will Steffen, has an inspired, exhilarating vision of the Canberra region becoming ''one big laboratory'' leading a climate change revolution.

''We can be the city that takes a bold lead in innovation. We can be a focus for experimenting with new energy sources, better infrastructure and greener public transport...

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