Mik has picked up the video camera on his phone to start ‘youtubing’ about people in his city who are reducing their ecological footprint
Category: Commentary
Juggling with the ‘It’s-already-too-late’ syndrome
“I have had a big blue fear since I heard in a speech that for Planet Earth, it was too late. I felt collapsed for 15 seconds.”~ Brice Pascal Abbey In an era of global ecological destruction, climate change is
Woman with a potentially explosive idea
The new Icelandic film ‘Woman at War’ creatively tells the story about what could begin to happen in real life: ‘resistance groups’ sabotaging polluting infrastructure and products.
Cooperate as never before to radically reorganise
Thoughts, reflections and observations on Saturday’s – from a climate activists’ perspective shocking and sad – election result in Australia, where once again a hollow promise of “a strong economy” and the right to pollute our common atmosphere and destroy
The Australian #ClimateElection
“If you’ve been keeping your powder dry, waiting for the moment when the climate fight really needed you–right about now would be that moment.”
Ten minutes a day keeps a crisis away
I’ve become fond of numbers. I realised how clearly numbers speak. Every day, I am confronted with numbers in all sorts of possible and impossible sizes – numbers that at the same time speak to all sorts of possible and impossible emotions. But with all the exotic
Australia’s Labor party still immersed in gas and coal
The problem with Labor’s support for climate action is that it is either fake, hollow or misguided. We need to call out those politicians who think they can sign a climate emergency declaration and then spruik fossil fuels. Peter Khalil,
Earth anthem for a youth movement
You may like or hate this song, but it has all the features of what any new ‘We Are The World’-song should contain
Climate change is a political choice. Here’s why
As much as we need to talk about the future, with climate change it’s important also to remember a few things that happened in the past. We didn’t have to get into this trouble, we didn’t have to have a scary climate catastrophe looming over our heads and in the back of our minds. It was a conscious, deliberate choice. Because once we get that, it also becomes a lot more obvious that getting us out of the mess similarly begins with a simple, conscious choice: The political choice.
Colin Mockett’s global outlook
The world is changing fast. If we don’t keep track of the changes, we lose out on the opportunities we have right in front of our nose to transform, transition, change and improve our city, our homes and our lives.