“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
Category: World affairs
#ClimateStrike: A peaceful youth uprise unfolds
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
Zero carbon companies gather momentum
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
Zero carbon cities gather momentum
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
Censored by Facebook for calling climate criminals out
Allow my to have a rant. I don’t appreciate being censored. It hasn’t often happen – the only two times I recall were when I wrote something about the – in my view unpleasantly close – financial relationship between an association of patients
UN chief: We are careening towards the edge of the abyss
“…and this is why I am calling on civil society and young people in particular to campaign for climate action.” ~ Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, 10 September 2018 “What is still missing is the sense of
Strike for safety. Climate safety
“If grown-ups don’t give a shit about my future, I won’t either.” ~ Greta Thunberg “I don’t care if I get into trouble at school. I believe that one person can make a difference.” ~ Greta Thunberg, 15-year-old Swedish student
Working with nature to cultivate system change
We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into
Warming stripes and climate grief
We have entered September in the year 2018, and as these warming stripes illustrate, the climate which has been a steady backdrop to life on our planet for thousands of years, is beginning to change. If you are among those
Turning a notch on the climatic apocalypse beat
In August 2018, a global heat shock wave saw media turn a notch on the climate change apocalypse beat [Climatic clippings post no 6 in 2018] Some of you will think you are too busy to pay attention to this.