What will it take to protect the health and well-being of the local residents and environment from fracking and gas mining? This question was investigated at a public meeting in Geelong, Australia, on 12 December 2013. “People like us who
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Geelong’s sustainable motor enthusiasts
Meet the Alternative Technology Association’s Geelong EV Branch. You could describe them as nerds who take pleasure in spending endless hours on solving mechanical and electronic challenges as an expensive hobby. But you could also see these men and women
Call for a risk assessment by our leaders
Could this ‘Wise Response’ appeal from New Zealand show a model which could be copy-pasted and translated in your country? Tackling the threats of climate change by transitioning our society to a zero-carbon energy production really shouldn’t be a political
Dear Climate Change Authority
I posted this to the Australian Climate Change Authority today – just before deadline which is today, 29 November. You can do it too. Dear Climate Change Authority, Thank you for doing this extremely important work and for allowing us
Calling all schools and ‘sustainanators’
Where are the really good sustainable ideas for teachers and students? Did you hear about the “sustainanator”-idea from Geelong East Primary School? (If not, listen here or see below on this page). Could that be an idea which other schools
Help make our region fossil fuel free
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To avoid climatepocalypse…
…here’s how YOU can make a difference. Where we stand, what we need to do, the facts in brief, and a ‘recipe’. First, I invite you to take a look at this 10 minute video, so you have an idea
Speaking of sustainability: Cleantech, green roofs and local food
Could Geelong become Australia’s ‘cleantech capital’? Or the ‘green roof capital’? Already there are a couple of initiatives happening in the city in regard to cleantech technologies and green roofs, and the potential is there, we learned from the speakers
Carbon Manifesto
Now, listen. In from Canada comes this scientist and environmentalist with a ‘Carbon Manifesto’ and the kind of speech on youtube which makes him stand out as one of that kind of climate crisis leaders humanity as a whole has
The Cost of Carbon
‘The Way Forward’ – “This is home…” Published on youtube.com on 22 October 2013. » The different segments of the hour-long Internet-broadcast ‘The Cost of Carbon’, covering six continents, are being uploaded on youtube.com here: youtube.com/user/ClimateReality ‘The Cost of Carbon’. Published