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Sustainable shopping: how to rock white sneakers without eco-guilt

  • Written by: Lisa Heinze, PhD candidate Sustainability, Fashion & Everyday Life, University of Sydney
imageNearly everyone owns a pair of white sneakers. But what the different materials required to make a sneaker?Maria Morri/flickr, CC BY-SA

This story is part of our Sustainable Shopping series, in which we ask experts to provide easy eco-friendly guides to purchases big and small.

White sneakers look great with nearly everything on nearly everybody, so...

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In the 'fearless city', Barcelona residents take charge

  • Written by: Amanda Tattersall, Post Doctoral Fellow, School of Geoscience & Host, ChangeMakers, University of Sydney
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This article is part of the Democracy Futures project, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.

Almost every global city has a similar dynamic – a battle between the finance capital that seeks...

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Why Adani may still get its government loan

  • Written by: Brendan Gogarty, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania

Even though the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced she would be vetoing the around A$1 billion loan to Adani for a rail link to its proposed Carmichael coal mine, funds could still flow to the company.

Currently in caretaker mode for the Queensland election, the premier would need the consent of the opposition party to exercise...

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Dear Prime Minister: we'd like you to join the call for a ban on killer robots

  • Written by: Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61
imageA US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone is piloted remotely over Afghanistan. But what if AI was to take control? US Air Force Photo/Lt Col Leslie Pratt.

Leading researchers in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) from Australia and Canada have today published open letters calling on their respective Prime Ministers to take a stand against...

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