Last weekend, groups started flyering in ALP seats around the country, worried that their MPs will cave in to the big polluters and see the carbon price do very little for renewable energy, despite huge community support for renewable energy.
Blogs
June 22nd 2011
Janelle Saffin Supports Carbon Price Revenue Going to Renewable Energy and
June 21st 2011
.... it's nice to know you have thousands of messages of support for renewable energy behind you.
A huge congratulations again to the hundreds of volunteers from 72 local groups who gave up their Sat morning sleep-ins and Sunday arvos in the garden with kids to have thousands of conversations about renewable energy over the past few months.
June 14th 2011
Today, we're excitedly heading to Canberra to present a Report on 14,000 Renewable Energy Conversations - conversations held by thousands of you in every corner of the country over the last four months - to the members of the Multi-party Climate Change Committee.
June 8th 2011
A cold winter night could not stop the residents of Armidale and New England from packing out the Armidale Town Hall to tell Tony Windsor that they want renewable energy as part of a carbon price deal.
Hadley White from local community group 100% Renewable New England said “we hosted the event 
June 7th 2011
It’s a cool & overcast afternoon in Campbell’s Creek & I am out door knocking with nine other members of the Mount Alexander Sustainability Group. We could be at home, catching up on chores, hanging out with the kids, pulling out the weeds… or a million other things, but like hundreds of others, we are volunteering with the 100% renewable energy campaign in cities & towns right across Australia, and we are talking to people in their homes about renewable energy...
June 6th 2011
Parramatta Says Yes to a Price on Pollution and Yes to Renewable Energy
Members of the Parramatta Climate Action Network (ParraCAN) met with Ms Julie Owens Federal MP for Parramatta to discuss the outcomes of its survey involving hundreds of Parramatta households, as part of a national survey on renewable energy of more than 10,000 homes.
June 6th 2011
At last - the numbers add up, the comments are all typed in, and we are sending off our last batch of St John's Wood Sustainability 'conversation' results, before the results are tallied up to present to various politicians.
It's been a great experience for our group over the past months - doorknocking the suburb was sometimes excruciating, but oh so educational. Everyone should do it! We've had, and started, a lot of conversations that would not otherwise have happened.
Time for a soak in the bath, and maybe a nice glass of red wine...
June 6th 2011
Like dozens of other groups around Australia, we've been door-knocking.
And last week we (that is, Jenny Curtis, Derek Bolton and me) took our results to our local member Tanya Plibersek (Federal MP for Sydney and Minister for Human Services) at her constituency office in Broadway.
June 6th 2011
Dozens of people gathered on the steps of the market building last Sunday, World Environment Day, saying YES to a price on pollution and YES to more support for renewable energy; like solar and wind power.
“A price on pollution is important for Australia but we know that on its own it won't build more renewable energy," said Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) Co-Chairperson Dr. Susie Burke.
