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How I learned to give up plastic and live a more beautiful life
I’ve lived a disposable-plastic-free life for almost two years now. Amazingly, I make very few hard sacrifices and am in no lack of luxury. Giving up plastic seems daunting … but if I can do it, so can you. I’ve lived a disposable-plastic-free life for almost two years now. Amazingly, I make very few hard…
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Fracking blackmail will take us down a time tunnel to nowhere land
Fracking is a loaded word. When it is spoken people see images of lit cigarette lighters next to water taps with pops of flame jumping from the flowing liquid. Burning rivers, water contamination and mystery illnesses. It’s an unpopular word, an ugly word. Only fitting for an ugly, destructive practice. Originally published on The…
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Is your wardrobe a climate disaster?
We’re not the fashion police you remember from TV. We won’t bust you for wearing too many patterns at once and we certainly won’t judge you for wearing black and blue at the same time. Illustration depicting models wearing polyester clothes superimposed over textile production facilities. As part of the campaign to reduce overconsumption, the Detox…
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Climate change backyard
Cairns. Type it into Google, and the first sentence celebrates it as ‘The Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.’ For me, it’s a lot of other things as well. My name is Natalie, and I grew up in Cairns, Far North Queensland. I’m a supporter of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, and I am deeply disturbed by the…
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Black lung outbreak a reminder of ransom coal has always taken from workers and the community
In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs left looking like a blackened sponge. It is a terrible disease, long thought eradicated in this country. But now it’s back [1]. Originally published on HuffPost In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs…
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We are the frontliners and we have our own voices
Becky Giblin is a volunteer from Nananu-i-ra, a small island off Rakiraki. Becky shares her experiences of living on the frontlines of climate change and why she is a passionate defender of our planet. Becky Giblin is a volunteer from Nananu-i-ra, a small island off Rakiraki. Becky shares her experiences of living on the frontlines of climate change…
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I don’t need a drill, I just need a hole in the wall – The Brisbane Tool Library
What if you could borrow some tools just as you would borrow books from a library? What if instead of buying your camping gear, you could just borrow it for the weekend? What if you could borrow a baby stroller? Born in 1992, the year of the first global Earth Summit in Rio de…
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Exposing Canavan’s Coal Slush Fund
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility: secretive, compromised and currently considering giving $1 billion of public money to the climate-wrecking Carmichael coal mine. But the good news is that the Federal Parliament has just authorised a Senate inquiry into the NAIF, to get to the bottom of the conflict of interest and secrecy at the heart…
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How Australia’s coal exports industry threatens climate crisis
Australia’s coal is powering a global surge in an especially polluting type of steel production, and exporting a massive amount of greenhouse gases — 88% as much as it produces domestically. Australia’s coal is powering a global surge in an especially polluting type of steel production, and exporting a massive amount of greenhouse gases —…
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I lost my ability to walk, but never lost my love for the ocean
As an aerial photographer & videographer, Jaimen Hudson’s images will transport your body and mind to places you‘ve never been — azure blue oceans and clear skies along jagged coastlines; sunsets that shine colours bright like a candy store; graceful marine life and people tiny like ants lapping up waves in the deep, cool sea…