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Heaps Better Episode 4: How can we make our leaders listen?
So how can we send the message that we want to move forwards to the renewable future and leave coal oil and gas in the past — and be heard? We need to raise our voices and our friends in the Pacific, Fenton Lutunatabua and Joseph Moeono-Kolio join us in Episode 4 to help us speed things…
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Heaps Better Episode 2: How can we speed up renewables?
In this episode, we chat with Simon Holmes à Court, a Director of the Smart Energy Council, and Lindsay Soutar, Greenpeace’s Campaigner for renewable energy and lead of the REenergise campaign. We’re also visiting a carbon neutral kinder and a solar powered brewery. You might be thinking, how exactly can we ditch the biggest coal, oil, and gas…
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Heaps Better Episode 3: How can we stop funding the climate crisis?
How can we stop funding the climate crisis? We hit up Munira Chowdhury, a Market Forces analyst, to learn how we can easily divest from dirty power and invest in the clean energy future ⚡ It’s so easy that Ash switched her super while we were working on the episode. Boom. Done. We’ll also learn how…
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Facebook bans news websites at the height of the COVID and climate crisis
Yesterday the social media leviathan Facebook carried out its threat and banned all Australian news websites. More than half of all Australians get their news from social media. The ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, SBS News, all our trusted news services have been silenced. But it’s not just the news that has been…
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Finding Hope: Samoa
If you were faced with the threat of the disappearance of your nation, what would you do? Rt. Hon. Enele Sopoaga Foreword to Te Mana o te Moana: the State of the Climate in the Pacific 2020 Finding Hope: Samoa follows the journey of Joe Moeono-Kolio, Head of Pacific, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, on his fight…
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Listen to Heaps Better Podcast, Episode 1: How can we be better planet savers?
A new podcast from Greenpeace Join Jess Hamilton and Ash Berdebes; two mates on a mission to discover the most high-impact, zero-fluff things we can do to take meaningful climate action. If you want to make things heaps better, but don’t know where to start — this podcast is for you! A farmer walks away…
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Tools for Grassroots Activism
Everything you need to run a powerful movement for next to nothing! Running a grassroots campaign or starting a movement online can be intimidating, but there are so many great tools available to help you get started. Here are our top picks from the world of online grassroots activism. Not only are these platforms all…
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The Heaps Better podcast – A get it done guide to climate action
A new podcast from Greenpeace Join Jess Hamilton and Ash Berdebes; two mates on a mission to discover the most high-impact, zero-fluff things we can do to take meaningful climate action. If you want to make things heaps better, but don’t know where to start — this podcast is for you! A farmer walks away…
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Replacing Liddell with Renewables Cheaper and Less Polluting than Gas
Greenpeace launches the report: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station Report The cheapest and lowest emissions option to replace the Liddell coal-burning power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is clean energy backed up by batteries, according to a new report by energy analytics firm RepuTex. ||| New modelling undertaken…
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The real life monsters behind the Amazon’s deforestation
The story behind Greenpeace’s latest animated film ‘There’s a Monster in My Kitchen’. Jag-wah’s forest home is being burnt down to grow animal feed for meat. If we don’t act, more precious habitats will be ruined, Indigenous Peoples could lose their homes, and we’ll lose the fight against climate change. Watch the film. A farmer…