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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.…
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Gabriel Vianna and Felipe Vallejo: ”A more sustainable relationship between people and oceans”
Gabriel Vianna Greenpeace/Paul Hilton Gabriel, or Gabe as we normally call him, is another one of our Brazilian nationals on board. He is currently the assistant leader for the dive team, responsible for documenting the marine life as well as patiently holding campaign banners under water, among other tasks. And by the way, Gabe is…
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Biggest Week For Climate Before Copenhagen
It could be the storyline for a movie. Four women from across the globe land in New York City just days ahead of world leaders arriving for join one of the most important climate change talks ahead of the UN summit in Copenhagen. Back home, these women experience the very real impacts of climate change.…
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Powering the plunder, fueling the fire: Tuna today, gone tomorrow
The fuel tanker Fong Seong 888 refueling the purse seiner MV American Legacy. Both are owned by the Taiwanese Chen family network of Companies. The number 8 in the Chinese culture is considered a lucky number, as the word for eight sounds similar to the word meaning ‘prosper’ or ‘wealth’ . I am pretty…