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Community Protest This Weekend
Sydneysiders, hope you’ve already got this weekend’s climate camp in Helensburgh factored into your weekend plans. It’s going to be a momentous weekend. Already Peabody Coal has announced “no trucks or trains would operate to or from the mine on Sunday, the expected day of the march”. Climate camp hasn’t even started and it’s already…
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29 words
6 days to go to my birthday*! Which means it is 6 days to go to the International Blog Action Day on October 15th. I thought I’d make list of words to describe the outcome I’d like to see from the Copenhagen negotiations. Not more terms and numbers, scientists have told us what the technical…
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What’s Been Going On In Bangkok?
Trish Harrup, one of our climate campaigners, is currently in Bangkok for the United Nations’ climate talks. In these two interviews, Trish talks about what the Bangkok talks are all about and how they relate to the December meeting in Copenhagen. She also talks about some of the developments at the talks and the mood…
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It's My Birthday And I'll Blog If I Want To
It is my birthday in two weeks. The 15th of October marks another rotation on this little blue green globe for me. Coincidentally there is an initiative to turn this day into an international blog about climate change day. The Blog Action Day is a great idea and according to their website they can reach…
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The Inconvenient Truth About Oceans
The Economist calls it “The Inconvenient Truth about the oceans”. It’s The End of the Line, a riveting major documentary that investigates the overfishing crisis facing our oceans. This fascinating documentary will soon be showing in Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Newcastle and Sydney. The End of the Line documents the massive demand for bluefin tuna that…
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Join the community coal protest Sun 11 Oct
On Sunday October 11th, the Australian community will again voice its opposition to the coal industry, in the next of a series of protests at coal infrastructure around the country. This time the protest is in Helensburgh, south of Sydney, at Australia’s oldest coal mine. Despite the fact that coal is Australia’s biggest contributor to…
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Shock And Bore: A Cheat’s Guide To Copenhagen
During the weekend it emerged that there was a problem with the Copenhagen ‘Treaty’. No, it wasn’t the fact that there is no agreement on financing, targets, or one of the other many sticking points on the road to securing the sort of climate deal that we so desperately need. Instead, the problem was with…
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What are you doing October 24th?
Climate change debates sometimes feels like reading a bowl alphabet soup: IPCC, UNFCC, CCS, PPM and so many more acronyms it can get just plain silly. The diversity of acronyms is matched only by the plethora of ways to express action on climate change: 40% on 1990 levels by 2020, 50% aggregate equivalent gases on…
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Treading on burning embers
Here’s a few rather alarming figures for you. We are now less than 70 days from the crucial Copenhagen Climate Summit, where world leaders are due to meet and forge the successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. Between now and then we have only 3 weeks of official negotiations remaining, most of which will take…
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A Song From One Of Our Volunteers
We’re very lucky here to be graced with volunteers who are not only super passionate about the environment, but also super talented. Today we farewell one of our volunteers, Steph, who’s been with us for 10 weeks, and worked across our campaigns. And we found out a talent she’s managed to keep secret until today.…