I have a confession to make. I have probably signed more online petitions than I have had hot dinners.
July 9th 2010
Last weekend I went home to Port Macquarie, where I hail from. It’s famous as a coastal town a driveable distance from Sydney where you can go to see dolphins and koalas for a weekend. It’s a beautiful place and has the most temperate climate of anywhere in Australia. It is where people go to retire and generally be conservative.
July 5th 2010
In my grandparent’s generation, people had it harder, but they knew how to live. They had to monitor the level of water in their tanks. They grew their own vegetables. They had to wait until it was strawberry season to eat strawberries. They knew that if the banana crop failed there would be no bananas. They lived through the depression and acknowledge even to this day that waste is unacceptable. This meant living simpler, but it didn’t mean living worse.
June 9th 2010
100% Renewable has been making hay recently. After a packed Town Hall event featuring Bill McKibben, Tim Flannery, Clive Hamilton and Ross Garnaut, Jenny from Climate Change Balmain Rozelle addressed the packed hall, calling for a massive, nation wide door knocking effort and proudly displaying the 100% Renewable banner. Go Jenny!
Check out the write up we (and more specifically Jenny) got here
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May 17th 2010
I need your help! Read on and you will see...
Recently I was flicked a great document about how we communicate climate change. Long story short is at the moment we are losing. We are not convincing anyone of anything, the scientitsts have done and are doing their jobs, now its time for us, the sales men and women to create change.
April 30th 2010
The launch is so close you can smell it. How exciting. All the planning, the scoping out the best sign and now a few early pics are coming in! Fantastic.
I have an idea. When we think about getting media we tend to think about getting in the papers, which is great, because it is so tangible and you can cut the clip out later and put it on the fridge. (You do that too, right?)
April 16th 2010
Sydney Opera House- 350: Oct 24th 2009Last year, I was lucky enough to work on the 350.org campaign. One thing I took away from the experience was the awesome and intangible value of images.
March 21st 2010
Last weekend, myself and over two hundred others gathered in Canberra for a weekend of climate action. It is always nice to be in the same room as other dedicated climate activists and see just how diverse and positive everyone is.
We got to meet people from all over Australia who are dedicated to solving the climate crisis with a variety of tactics and approaches. It was great to learn from people building community wind farms, people organising for unions, scientists, politicians and grandparents.
March 10th 2010
Me and My Beloved: Photo Credit: Christina JensenWhat’s the first thing you should do when arriving in Denmark? Eat a Danish? Visit the anticlimactic ‘Little Mermaid’? Marry a Dane and benefit from the free health care and education?
While all are good ideas- for me, my initial priority was to hug a wind turbine. A dream somewhat hindered by the first candidates that I saw as I flew in, standing about a kilometre out to sea outside of Copenhagen.
It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, lets think about it, they take the wind; something that will never run out… and make power- it’s incredible. Shame we don’t have many in Australia.
