‘The Code’ is a new idea to fight climate change and eliminate other corporate abuses of the public interest. Interview with corporate lawyer Robert Hinkley.
Category: World affairs
Good news we take with us into 2023
New Year is a time to take a breather, recharge the batteries and lift the glasses, while reflecting on both the wins and the failures of the year that went by. 2022 was a year flooded with bad news, however so much the more, it is important at this time
Call for a treaty to stop the fossil madness
2022 was the year that the Fossil Fuel Treaty evolved from a conceptual idea to a proposal backed by two countries, 74 cities, and over 500 parliamentarians.
Greta Thunberg: The truth about the climate crisis
Greta Thunberg spoke at the Royal Festival Hall in London at ‘The Climate Event’ on 31 October 2022 – an event which was organised by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin. The video recording of the event was only made available on Youtube until the end of November 2022, unfortunately.
Festival of civil disobedience
The Victorian ‘Spring Rebellion – a festival of civil disobedience’ – opened with an action in Geelong.
Emissions keep increasing. Does the climate movement need new strategies?
Bill McKibben and Neil King from Deutsche Welle spoke with two of the world’s leading climate activists — Kumi Naidoo of South Africa, the former head of Greenpeace International, and Luisa Neubauer, sometimes called the Greta Thunberg of Germany — about what their movement needs to do now to defuse the onrushing climate
Global call for unity: Standing with the world on our shoulders
‘Resolution Song’ brings together voices from all over the world in a demonstration of global unity and a call for action to protect the planet. The project was created by Planet Resolution and an album and video was released as part of Music Declares Emergency’s ‘Turn Up The Volume’ music industry climate action week in
#FindYourRole: The soil champion, the climate activists and the coal miner
The Sustainable Hour no 389 with soil champion Bev Middleton, Blocade Australia activists Marco and Rilka, and coal miner Grant Howard.
A letter to our overseas friends
Is Australia really acting on climate change?
Faith groups speak up for climate action
With over 500 actions in over 40 countries, a #Faiths4Climate campaign marched to government offices.