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Extinction Rebellion is a non-violent civil disobedience movement – an “alliance of the willing” – in the UK which demands of its government that it declares a climate emergency, communicates the crisis to the public and goes zero carbon already by 2025.
“Climate change is a political choice.” ~ Mike Smyth, Chair of Energy4All, speaking at the Community Energy Conference in the United Kingdom in 2015 If you are going to vote in the Victorian state election, which is just around
“If you want to join us in striking, you could walk out of school, like us, in November and go and sit outside a politician’s office with your own climate strike sign,” writes Harriet and Milou, who – inspired by
Are you watching? There is a European youth uprise unfolding. Its impact is still modest and ‘under the radar’ among Australian youth, but it is making headlines and front cover stories in Europe. You can follow it on social media
“The time has come!” The sustainable revolution is happening, and the youth are coming out – making sit-ins and going on school strike for the climate. So we’re saying: Just like the youth revolution back in the 1960s had its
488 companies have set their own emissions reduction targets Companies representing around one eighth of total global market capitalisation are now using climate science to define their future direction of travel. Over 130 new corporates have made science-based emissions reduction
When the world’s most carbon-conscious mayors meet in Copenhagen to learn how some cities are heading for zero carbon already during the 2020s, will your city’s mayor be among them? If not, have you asked: Why not? Why is this
Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 31 October 2018 is Ken Dickens, managing director of Corio Waste Management. Paul Wittwer explains that the National Day of Inaction on 30 November 2018 is actually a day of climate action. Australian school
Irish-Columbian missionary priest and well-known eco-theologian Sean McDonagh explores Pope Francis’ encyclical by touching on the moral and spiritual aspects on what it means to be a Christian in the 21st century by caring for the Earth. Father McDonagh offers
National Day of Inaction: 30 November 2018 “We are sick of the inaction of government and business on climate change. So we are taking a sick day” ~ Victorian climate activists “Use the National Day of Inaction to start conversations