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Where’s your plan, Scott Morrison? Share this video!
|Pacific Island Represent! activists joined community members in Navutulevu Village on the Coral Coast to raise awareness about climate change, and plant mangroves to slow down coastal erosion.| Watch our video about the IPCC’s 1.5 Degree report, then click to share it with your friends on Facebook, or Twitter! SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER …
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Wentworth Climate Scorecards
Send the climate wreckers a message How the candidates in Wentworth stack up on climate… | This Saturday, you and thousands of voters will take to the polls to send the climate wreckers a message. This by-election will be historic, and with Wentworth voters unequivocally ranking climate change as their top voting issue – it’s…
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7 air pollution tips to help protect your family
One question we often get asked at Greenpeace is: “what’s the best way to protect myself from air pollution?” Sydney on a hazy day.||||OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA||||||OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA||||| With news articles warning that 5.5 million people worldwide die prematurely every year as a result of breathing polluted air, it’s understandable that people want to know…
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Renewables emerge as key battleground in upcoming Victorian election
In just over a month Victoria goes to the polls. What’s at stake, I hear you ask. Nothing more than the future of the renewable energy revolution. |In Waubra, central Victoria, one of Australia’s largest wind turbine farms is currently under construction.| As it stands Victoria is among the states leading the way in the…
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BP’s 2016 oil well plan proves safe Bight drilling is a myth
A more than two year legal battle by Greenpeace Australia Pacific has revealed details of how dangerous and risky drilling by any oil company would be in the Great Australian Bight and how difficult it would be to respond in the event of an accident. Greenpeace has obtained BP’s 2016 Well Operations Management Plan which…
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How every person can help contribute to the end of single-use plastics
By Breana Wick There is a lot we can do on our own, but we need to work together if we want to make substantial change. Tavish Campbell filming debris from a fishing net which has attracted a small school of fish with MY Arctic Sunrise ship in background. The crew of the Greenpeace ship…
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Liberals’ energy plan for Victoria: a backwards step
Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy’s proposal to prop up dying industries that business won’t is a symptom of the fossil fuel fetishisation and climate change denial that plagues the Coalition at state and federal level. This morning the Coalition announced it will tender for 500MW of electricity generation to power infrastructure if elected, such as…
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Victoria votes: buskers, baristas and clean energy
Buskers and baristas. Grand final fever and the Great Ocean Road. Idiosyncratic facial hair and indecisive weather. Victoria has it all! But with the state set to go to the polls next week, and the future of clean energy and climate action at stake, what do the voters of Victoria really want? What happens when you throw a…