Michelle Hunt is one of our new interns working on public engagement. She’s been busy organising a series of public talks on climate change lined up for June and July.
I started my internship with Greenpeace six weeks ago wanting to make a real difference by being proactive in the environmental movement. To be honest, […]
It’s a day on from my initial report back on the budget and I’ve been trying to make sure I’m not getting carried away with the size of the renewable energy funding. After years of budgets being handed down that do the square root of not much for real climate solutions, I’m naturally inclined to […]
When scientists start speaking out against climate policy, you know they’re getting serously worried. Just last week, Dr James Risbey from the CSIRO said that the Government’s greenhouse gas targets were like “playing Russian roulette with the climate system with most of the chambers loaded” and we should phase out coal in the next 20 […]
Our society faces the collision of two tectonic plates. The Global Financial Mess (GFM) is resulting in growing job losses around the world and the global financial system, despite massive public bailouts, is still teetering on the edge of further collapse. This has collided with the much deeper and more profound crisis of climate change. […]
Barack Obama has won the election and will go on to make history, as the first black President of the USA. The planet will sigh with relief because President Obama has a clear electoral mandate on the biggest issue in the world, stopping dangerous climate change.
Our own ‘change generation’ PM, Kevin Rudd, is now under […]
As Emma wrote a week ago, investing in a sustainable green collar economy makes sense.
But its not just environmentalists who are making the claims. A senior executive at the United Nations Environment Programme this week pointed out that current political efforts to curb pollution are simply not working. His solution was for governments to adopt […]
With the media running headlines about the “global emergency”, “threat to national security”, and need for a “war effort” you could be forgiven for thinking that the penny had finally dropped among world leaders about the seriousness of climate change.
But of course it takes the threat of economic meltdown, not merely planetary meltdown, to spur […]