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FASHION ACTIVISM – SAVING THE REEF WITH SCARVES
Inspired by her passion for underwater photography, photographer and designer Sophie Robertson has a fierce determination to help protect Australia’s unique coastline, from the Great Barrier Reef all the way to the Great Australian Bight. || That is why she designed a series of beautiful scarves to help us spread the word about the need…
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MAKING A MOVEMENT – THE LEGACY OF MAKE SMTHNG WEEK
MAKE SMTHNG Week – the global movement drawing together a colourful, chaotic community of makers, upcyclers, ethical designers and waste free bloggers – has come to an end. So the big question is, what now? |The Greenpeace Ship MV Beluga II during her tour about climate protection in Bonn at COP23. The ship visits 11…
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FLUME DROPS NEW TRACK WITH GREENPEACE TO RAISE CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS
An Australian icon is at risk of succumbing to a slow and silent death. That’s the harsh reality that faces the Great Barrier Reef if fossil fuel business as usual continues unabated. Fortunately, not everyone has given up on the Reef, including Grammy-award winning artist Flume and Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Yesterday the globe-trotting multi-award-winning Sydneysider…
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BREAKING: NAB RULES OUT FUNDING NEW THERMAL COAL MINES!
Big news: National Australia Bank is ruling out thermal coal mines! | Today, NAB joins a rapidly growing list of banks that are walking away from dirty fossil fuels because you’ve made them see the truth: there is no future in fossil fuels. Will you help ANZ and Westpac wake up too? What has NAB…
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WOW! HUGE BANKS ARE WALKING AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS
The world shifted slightly on its axis today, with three major announcements by some of planet Earth’s largest financial institutions. As world leaders gathered in France to tackle climate change, one of the world’s largest banks, ING, announced that they are finally going to drop coal by 2025. ING Bank is a Dutch finance giant…
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HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Yesterday was International Human Rights Day and starts the one year lead up to the 70th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Yesterday was International Human Rights Day and starts the one year lead up to the 70th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of…
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Happy World Antarctica Day
Antarctica holds 90% of the freshwater on the planet, is the biggest desert in the world, and is the only continent with no native human population. The encircling Antarctic Ocean not only provides life and living space for amazing, unique and iconic wildlife, but it also influences other oceans and wildlife thousands and thousands of…
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What Does Labor’s Victory in the Queensland Election Mean for Adani?
After a heated campaign, it looks like Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor Party will win the Queensland state election, defeating the Liberal National Party and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. | While there were many issues that moved people’s votes, one thing is clear: the future of Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, and Labor’s promised veto of the proposed…
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Can we Create Healthy Oceans and Tackle Climate Change at the Same Time?
“We woke up to the fact that there’s ocean change just like climate change. We need ocean action like there’s climate action.” These words rang out at international climate talks last week, spoken by Peter Thompson, the UN’s special envoy for the ocean. This is just one sign that ensuring healthy oceans is fast becoming…