Video from three EU election candidates’ press conference at Heathrow Airport in United Kingdom, calling for Heathrow Airport to pause all flights.
Tag: Extinction Rebellion
No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response
“It is our responsibility to act with clear urgency to protect the planet and all its inhabitants. We are rebelling for life, for our future, for the future of all species.”~ Extinction Rebellion “From this moment despair ends and tactics
British arts organisations declare a climate emergency
More than 190 UK institutions and individuals from the arts and culture sectors have pledged to declare a climate emergency and in this way become part of a first wave of climate emergency declarers in the country.
People and communities cut the carbon
Hepburn community heads for zero carbon by 2029, Shannon Lughnone sets out on an extremely long walk, Extinction Rebellion group starts in Geelong, and Mik has decided to ‘walk the talk’, get solar and renovate his house.
#TellTheTruth: The idea whose time has come
Dispatching from the climate emergency bunker on 13 March 2019
Two councillors’ and a teenager’s recipe for change
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 Februay 2019 are two first-time councillors of the Greater Geelong City Council: Cr Sarah Mansfield, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Portfolio, and Cr Stephanie Asher, Chair of the Planning Portfolio.
Cross pollination between youth, extinction rebels and grey-haired councillors
As we enter 2019, three new global climate emergency movements are making headlines: Extinction Rebellion, which started in England in 2018, the council climate emergency declaration campaign, which started in Australia in 2016 and now counts 40 councils, and the school strike movement, which Greta Thunberg started in Sweden in August 2018.