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#AustraliansForCoal is the latest sign of an industry in values freefall
‘The problem for coal is that it is the single greatest driver of climate change’. Originally published in The Guardian Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters During the second world war, my dad performed his war service down the coal mines in the UK. The work cost him his sense of smell, but gave him a profound sense…
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More cans than cigarette butts in clean-up campaign
Why is it every time I try to pay a visit to the managing director of Coca Cola I’m met by police? It started when a small group of us delivered bags of empty bottles and cans to then managing director Terry Davis at his office. It continued when I attempted, with a couple…
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Cash for Containers: it makes cents
It’s not often you get a chance to talk directly to your State Premier about something you’re passionate about. But as chance would have it, on Monday night I was able to represent my local area and attend the NSW Community Cabinet Meeting as an advocate for a container deposit scheme. South-West Sydney may not seem…
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Clean up Australia Day: Boomerang Alliance demands action on Cash for Containers
Press release – 28 February, 2014With Clean Up Australia Day tomorrow (Sunday 2 March), the Boomerang Alliance, consisting of 27 environment groups including Clean Up Australia, Greenpeace and the Total Environment Centre, are calling on state and federal governments to introduce a Cash for Containers recycling scheme.The Boomerang Alliance is also encouraging people to take…
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Thousands unite to Save the Reef
Growing up in suburban Melbourne and Sydney, I’ve always considered the Great Barrier Reef a faraway treasure. Though I’ve never visited, images of colourful coral, pristine beaches and curious wildlife flood my mind when I think of our national icon. In my mind; it is…
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Proud to be standing up for our land, our water and our future.
As a local man whose family has been farming in the Maules Creek area for five generations, I can tell you I am blown away by what has happened here this week. Recently my community and I put out a call out to people in cities and towns across the country to help us stop…
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What firefighters say about climate change
By Michael Howes, Griffith University You do not find many climate change sceptics on the end of [fire] hoses anymore… They are dealing with increasing numbers of fires, increasing rainfall events, increasing storm events. – A senior Victorian fire officer, interviewed in 2012 for a recent National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility report. There have…
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West African Communities Rally to Protest Monster Boats
Just one week after Chilean fishermen and Greenpeace vigorously protested against the Margiris supertrawler, Mauritanian fishermen and fishing communities in West Africa are also raising their voices against monster boats in their own waters. In a statement sent out in Nouakchott, Mauritania, local fishermen called on West African governments to no longer allow supertrawlers into their…
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Hunt’s direct action on rainforest could reap carbon rewards
By David Ritter, University of Western Australia Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt’s ambition to broker a new global rainforest recovery plan reopens an important conversation about Australia’s role in tackling tropical deforestation. And it reminds us there is much Australia could do right now. According to Hunt in an announcement on 30 August, “[n]othing…