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World Meat Free Day: Your Guide to a Climate-friendly Diet
Monday June 13th is World Meat Free Day. It’s a day when thousands of people give up meat for 24 hours to positively impact both their health and the environment. Monday June 13th is World Meat Free Day. It’s a day when thousands of people give up meat for 24 hours to positively impact both…
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Cleaning up our plastic act
‘I’ll just chuck it in my backpack’. That’s what I said to the cashier in Albert Heijn, the biggest Dutch supermarket on the streets of Amsterdam. She had tried to charge me .50€ cents for a plastic bag so that I could carry my bunch of bananas 100m down the road. It was more than…
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Is the Prime Minister’s transition fast enough to save the Great Barrier Reef?
At the Leaders debate at the National Press Club in Canberra on May 29 the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the public that he had a practical plan for action on climate change and it was working. The Prime Minister didn’t mention the Reef once. In my last post I discussed the stakes for…
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The 2016 Federal Election: Who cares?
The 2016 Federal Election comes at a critical time for our environment and even human civilisation. The 2016 bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef is the worst ever recorded. (Justin Marshall Coralwatch.org) This is the first in a series of blog posts I will write to explain what’s at stake at this election or why…
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Glencore’s Tahmoor coal mine closure a searing reality check for Australian government
Press release – 1 June, 2016Sydney, 2 June 2016 – Glencore’s decision to close the Tahmoor coal mine in NSW is a searing reality check for the Coalition and Labor parties, who are risking Australia’s economic future by supporting the sunset coal industry, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said today.Nikola Casule, Greenpeace’s Climate campaigner said: “Tahmoor’s closure…