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Female focus: Why women are more impacted by climate change
Climate change is a non-negotiable fact. We’ve heard the scientists, we’ve seen the data and we’ve begun to see the harrowing changes to our environment. Local villagers celebrate the Government’s decision to stop Mahan coal block from mining. Saving the forests and livelihoods of thousands was celebrated by people from 20 different villages at a…
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Australia’s Plastic Problem: What, why & how?
There are many complex, nuanced issues in today’s world – banning single-use plastic products isn’t one of them. | In order to curb the exorbitant amount of plastic pollution in Australia, we need to stop relying on plastic products with such a short life-span. Consider this: Recent Greenpeace analysis found that Australians alone use over 9.7…
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The trouble with conflicts of interest in coal is … troubling
The board of the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) has been rocked by a leak of information showing “critical shortcomings” in the way it handles and secures sensitive information. This piece was first published on The Fifth Estate. The information in the leak also revealed potential conflicts of interest for the board of the NAIF,…
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Standing together for peace: a message to Julie Bishop
At 7am this morning, 149 origami peace doves carrying thousands of messages for peace took flight in front of the Sydney Opera House. Here’s what it looked like: Over the past month, thousands of us have spoken up for a peaceful world without nuclear weapons – even though our government hasn’t. Julie Bishop had a chance…
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The Locavore Journey: A Guide to Sustainable Living
Today, most people have one thing on their mind: where can I get what I’m looking for in the quickest way possible? From instant messaging to same day shipping, it would seem as though we’ve acquired a need for speed. So would slowing down in this fast paced world seem counter intuitive? Pumpkins, squash flowers,…
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The beginning of the end for nuclear weapons
"I have been waiting for this day for seven decades and I am overjoyed that it has finally arrived,” said Setsuko Thurlow, a Hiroshima survivor, back in July when a new treaty banning nuclear weapons was agreed at the United Nations in New York. “This is the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.”
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Poll on Australians’ attitudes towards nuclear weapons
ReachTEL conducted a survey of 1,669 residents across Australia on behalf of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The survey on Australian’s attitudes towards nuclear weapons was conducted during the night of 13 September 2017. Topline results: 73% of Australians support a ban on nuclear weapons. 70% of people in Julie Bishop’s electorate of Curtin want Australia to…
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Chevron’s Amazon Chernobyl Case moves to Canada
After perpetrating what is probably the worst oil-related catastrophe on Earth – a 20,000 hectare death zone in Ecuador, known as the “Amazon Chernobyl” – the Chevron Corporation has spent two decades and over a billion dollars trying to avoid responsibility. In 2011, Indigenous and peasant villagers won an $9.5-billion compensation judgement in Ecuador. Chevron,…
