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Pricing pollution, fuel security and climate resilience![]()
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A recent Professionals for Climate environment session brought together two compelling speakers exploring Australia’s climate and energy future.![]()
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Baethan Mullen, CEO of The Superpower Institute, presented the case for pricing pollution – and explained why making polluters pay could become an important part of Australia’s economic and climate policy.![]()
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The Superpower Institute has also released new work examining how Australia can break its dependence on imported fuel and strengthen national fuel security:![]()
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Thom Woodroofe spoke about the ideas behind his recently published book, Power, Prosperity & Planet: Climate & Energy Policy for All. The book is available here:![]()
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publishing.monash.edu/product/power-prosperity-planet/![]()
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You can watch the full session here:![]()
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The next environment session will be held on Monday 17 August at 8:00pm Sydney and Melbourne time.![]()
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Michael Berkowitz, Executive Director of the Climate Resilience Academy at the University of Miami, will present US perspectives on climate resilience.![]()
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Professor Ross Gordon from the Change for Good Institute at UTS Business School will also discuss new research into microplastics.![]()
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The Professionals for Climate environment group continues to grow through personal recommendations. Professionals interested in climate, sustainability and practical solutions are warmly invited to join:![]()
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www.professionalsforclimate.com.au
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THE CLIMATE BILL HAS ARRIVED. SO WHAT DO WE DO?![]()
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Keep turning up.![]()
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In The Sustainable Hour no. 601, we speak with Rhys Forsyth, Managing Director of Code Nation – the Australian company building websites, databases, volunteer systems and digital tools for climate campaigns, conservation groups and community independents.![]()
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As heatwaves, fires and floods intensify, governments are weakening climate policies and expanding fossil fuel production. Rhys takes us behind the scenes of the movements pushing back – and explains how technology and AI can help small organisations turn good intentions into organised action.![]()
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We also discuss Australia’s contradictory climate position, energy security, the rapid growth of electric vehicles, recovery from disasters in Vanuatu and why scientific warnings alone have failed to produce change.![]()
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Looking at the climate figures, despair may seem rational. But despair changes nothing.![]()
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Rhys leaves us with a practical message:![]()
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“Be there. Keep turning up.”![]()
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That is how campaigns become movements.![]()
That is how movements change politics.![]()
That is how the future is built.![]()
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Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 601:![]()
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A thoughtful and unusually grounded essay by an experienced disaster-resilience practitioner about what urban collapse actually looks like - the loss of reliable systems, the redistribution of power and the ways communities reconstruct daily life.![]()
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#collapse #CommunityResilience
Urban collapse: what cities teach us when systems fail — Dr. Jean Renouf
www.jeanrenouf.com
Cities rarely collapse by emptying out. More often, the systems that make ordinary life possible become unreliable while most people stay where they are. This article looks at how people recreate move...
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