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The energy revolution will not be centralised!
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…
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Finding inspiration at the Perth Walk Against Warming
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…
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Why I joined the Sydney Walk Against Warming
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…
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Herald-Sun breaks the silence on new Limits to Growth report
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…
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Diet Coal or Pure Spin? “Clean Coal” Gets Re-badged In The Spin Cycle
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…
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Barack Obama’s US Election Victory Means A Green New Deal To Stop 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…
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Grassroots action on Australia's biggest source of carbon pollution!
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,…
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Financial Crisis, Climate Opportunity
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…
