What would you say is the actual cost of coal? I can tell you that you won’t find the answer on your electricity bill. Nor will you find it on the stock exchange or commodities market.
Greenpeace has just released a report called The True Cost of Coal, which looks at the many ways that coal […]
At 11am on Saturday, 22 November, at Eraring Power Station (next to Lake Macquarie, a couple of hours North of Sydney) 150 people gathered to protest the continued burning of fossil fuels. The gathering was organised by Rising Tide and supported by a range of groups and individuals.
The plan was to hold a nine day […]
That’s the Fox News headline we can expect if US environmental campaigners get their way. A hilarious petition has been launched, to get the White House of President-elect Barack Obama to use a clothes line instead of a dryer. The idea comes from a group I’ve never heard of before, called Project Laundry List*.
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Crikey.com.au is calling for ideas to mark the anniversary of the Labor Party’s victory over Liberal PM John Howard last year.
Crikey is taking pithy comments from the public and will select the best and publish them next week in the high-falutin’ subscriber-only email.
This is a great chance to put the pressure on Rudd to actually […]
This week has seen yet another round of protestations from the big end of town about how difficult it will be to cut greenhouse emissions, and how they are going to have to move offshore if a decent emissions trading scheme is introduced. Meanwhile, another renewable energy manufacturer has just announced that they are actually […]
I personally got involved in WAW because I’m concerned about how climate change is going to affect future generations. When I think of potential conversations with children who will inherit this planet, I want to say that I did everything possible to encourage the government to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
Keeping up with WAW tradition, […]
As I sat waiting for the train wearing my ‘vintage’ 2006 WAW T-shirt, two ladies came and sat by me and said, “So you’re going to the walk too?” I certainly was, I replied, and asked them why they were going. “Because we have to do something!” said one. “I voted the Rudd government in […]
The 2008 Walk Against Warming in Sydney was a fantastic experience. I walked because I believe we all need to act together to ensure a clean, green future for ourselves and all future generations.
I was moved to see so many people and various organisation there showing solidarity for the climate movement. I was especially moved […]
Africa – continent of beauty and diversity, of change and challenge
In a historic move, Greenpeace is opening three new offices on the continent. On 13 November, the first office was opened in Johannesburgh (Republic of South Africa), with two further offices opening in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Dakkar (Senegal) early next year.
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Today the Australian Coal Association launched its $2.5 million advertising campaign to convince the Government and the good people of Australia that a) it cares about climate change and b) that it has a solution that will allow us to keep digging up coal and burning it without killing the planet.
But somehow, despite […]
Congratulations to Melbourne’s Herald-Sun for breaking a thirty-year taboo on the dreaded ‘Limits to Growth’ hypothesis today, in an article by Peter Jean.
Limits to Growth is the theory that since the Earth is finite, an endlessly growing global economy will eventually run out of planet to get resources from, dump pollution into, grow food on […]
You’ve heard about this great way of delivering large-scale renewable energy, you’ve seen how well it has worked overseas, you’ve been presented with a mountain of supporting evidence that suggests it could turn Australia into a renewable energy leader and the economist you’ve hired to look at the economics of dealing with climate change has […]
UPDATE: Friday 7th 11.44 - Tarong Station in QLD underway
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In the last 5 days, there have been 3 4 people-power actions intent on shutting down coal-fired power stations - one each in QLD, NSW (Bayswater), WA (Collie) and VIC (Hazelwood). This comes on top of several other people-power actions at coal power stations […]
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 […]
When it comes to taking real action on climate change, the grassroots of Australia is all over it - literally.
Four protesters from the grassroots group Rising Tide are locked on to the main coal conveyor of Bayswater power plant, shutting down the supply of coal to Australia’s single biggest point-source of carbon emissions. Outside, more […]