Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Clive Hamilton: The dirty politics around climate change
Posted in Events by Mark Ogge on August 27th, 2010
| 6 September , 2010 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
A monthly discussion group hosted by Beyond Zero Emissions focusing on energy solutions to climate change.
Professor Clive Hamilton is a well known Australian author and public intellectual who ran as the Greens candidate in the by-election for the federal seat of Higgins in December 2009. In June 2009 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to public debate and policy development. He is author of ‘Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change’ (2007) and his latest book is ‘Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change’ (2010).
Clive will be discussing the current political situation around climate change in Australia, in particular the dirty politics of the fossil fuel and energy intensive industry lobbies, and the current climate movement and whether renewable energy companies that stand to make profits from science-based climate policies have a role in this movement. He will also discuss our involvement at an individual and community level. He will appear via Skype video link.
Monday 6th September 2010 6:30 – 8pm
The Wood Theatre, ECO & COMMERCE-Rm:G09-Flr:G, University of Melbourne VIC
Please RSVP: query-environment@unimelb.edu.au
A big thank you to The Office for Environmental Programs (OEP) at the University of Melbourne for supporting us in bringing you this event.
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Walk Against Warming Sunday August 15
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on August 10th, 2010
Walk Against Warming 2010: The Great Suburban Walk
There’s a federal election on its way, yet our political leaders continue to backflip, delay and deny on climate change. With so much at stake, it’s time for the community to put climate action back on the election agenda.
On Sunday 15 August Environment Victoria, our national partners and the Victorian climate movement is holding the 2010 Walk Against Warming to demand that our political leaders face up to their responsibility on climate change. We’ll remind them that to secure our votes, they must ‘Walk with the People, Not the Big Polluters’.
This election be part of the call for climate action. Please register for The Walk Against Warming at www.walkagainstwarming.org.au
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New Projects: Climate Conversations
Posted in Movements, Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on August 5th, 2010
Source: Locals Into Victoria’s Environment (LIVE)
The next City of Port Phillip Climate Conversations session will be held on Saturday 7 August – this session will be for those proposing New Project ideas.
Since March this year 163 people have attended Climate Conversations sessions. 14 project ideas have been proposed by participants to adapt our city to climate change. More ideas are needed, so why not come along to the New Projects session? Climate Conversation sessions, and the projects that arise out of them, are community-led and driven projects. Their purpose is to green up local streets, activity centres and homes. The City of Port Phillip Council is acting as a catalyst, providing resources, and expertise, to get projects started, and help out along the way. Council has many climate action projects and hopes that Climate Conversation sessions will empower local people to implement more.
Find out more about the Climate Conversations.
10 am – 1 pm, Saturday 7 August 2010
South Port Uniting Church, 319 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne Melway Map 2K, B3. Take Tram 96 to Stop 127, then walk 100m up the path to Dorcas Street. The church hall is across the road to the left of the bluestone church.
Please RSVP (http://www.live.org.au/community-events/rsvp-form) if you are coming as it helps with catering. Make sure you mention any special dietary, hearing, access or interpretation requirements you may have.
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Ride the Talk at Maroondah City Council
Posted in Events by Nelly on July 13th, 2010
Want to find out how you can save money (and be kind to the planet) by making simple changes at home? Then come to this free public event and hear John Knox Ride the Talk on 21 July. John Knox has decided that, rather than simply complain about the lack of action on Climate Change, he needs to do something positive about it, so he is taking his knowledge of energy efficiency around Australia by bicycle.
Wednesday 21 July, 2010
7.00-9.00pm
Maroondah City Council, City Offices Ringwood, Braeside Avenue
RSVP by 20 July to Nelly on 9298 4261 or nelly.belperio@maroondah.vic.gov.au
Come along and bring some friends to share the savings.
For events in your area, see the calendar at www.ridethetalk.com.au
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Climate Redesign: Collaborative Project
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on July 13th, 2010
Climate Redesign 2010: An experimental collaborative project involving climate communicators and creatives to generate ideas on how to increase measurable mainstream support for action on climate change. We will be brainstorming together, sketching, modelling, drawing, writing, building briefs and testing ideas. We will be inspiring each other, having fun, sharing skills and forming working relationships with the people who will energise our ideas and implement them in the real world.
Public momentum on climate change action is stagnating, Copenhagen flopped and Rudd back-flipped on legislating a strong ETS. Meanwhile the issue is not going away and scientists are getting more alarmed with the scientific evidence. Australian groups have created the technical and economic solutions and now we need big creative ideas to inspire the Australian community and our leaders to implement these solutions. We are calling for Australia’s creatives to step up to this challenge and provide the ideas, skills and leadership that will transform the movement and catalyse real change. We want to abandon the stereotypes of past communications and actions to embrace the new, the clever, the dynamic and agile, the unexpected.
We are not aiming to produce campaign materials. We aim to produce the ideas and concepts that will lead to better campaign planning or a better alternative to a campaign altogether. We want to design frameworks for the Climate Communicators to allocate resources and ideas within their own organisations and to seek funding and support for implementation. All ideas and concepts produced will be shared and not be owned by anyone person. We will encourage remixing and upcycling of ideas between participants.
rewards
Participants will gain the following:
1. Work creatively in a fun environment
2. Extend working networks
3. Learn new ways of collaborating together
4. Contribute actively to the climate change issue
Saturday July 17, with an evening introduction in the week of the 5th.
Visit the website for more details on how to get involved.
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Brave New World: The Deakins 2010
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on June 2nd, 2010
Thirty of the best minds on the climate change issue in the one place, at the one time: The Deakins 2010.
Addressing the climate change problem requires change, innovation and new ways of thinking. Curated by Professor Tim Flannery, the Deakins 2010 will bring together 30 of the best people addressing the climate change issue now, for one week of unparalleled debate. At the Deakins you’ll hear from practitioners, from fresh informed voices with practical experience of achieving emissions reductions. These are people working to innovate in policy, business, finance and new technologies to help create a brave, new, low emissions world. We invite you to be part of the conversation, part of the solution, part of the future.
6-12 June 2010
Details and bookings: wheelercentre.com/calendar/program/the-deakin-lectures-2010/
All events are free. Bookings strongly recommended.
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Climate Communities Grants: Applications Open
Posted in Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on May 11th, 2010
Source: Sustainable Living Space
The Climate Communities grants program is a Victorian Government initiative designed to promote and support local actions to tackle climate change. It provides local groups across Victoria with information, advice and grants of up to $50,000 to take practical action on climate change in their own communities.
The Climate Communities grants program will help to link existing community networks centred around local councils, service clubs, schools and environment groups. It will also encourage and support the establishment of new groups who wish to take environmental action at a local level.
The key objectives are to support local communities to:
* reduce emissions
* build community resilience to adapt to climate change
* trial and/or promote new ideas to help tackle climate change.
The program, managed by Sustainability Victoria, supports communities by providing grants of up to $50,000 for community organisations. The Victorian Government has also appointed Climate Communities facilitators to work with local communities across the state. These facilitators will provide information, advice and assistance with grant applications.
Bold Ideas, Better Lives: Applications open
Posted in Seeking by Kate Archdeacon on April 5th, 2010
Source: Social Traders
Applications are now open for the Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge. So if you’ve got a big idea we’re offering up to $1 million and capacity building partnerships to turn your idea into reality. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity. Read all about it on our Challenge pages and apply.
We’re committed to supporting up to 10 projects that show the best and brightest ideas in social innovation across Australia. Your idea could deal with anything from healthcare to climate change, unemployment to the internet as long as it addresses a social need faced by communities in Australia.
The Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge is open to just about anyone – you could be an individual, a group of friends, an organisation, a private company – from anywhere in the world, as long as your idea addresses a social need faced by communities in Australia we want to hear from you.
So don’t keep your ideas to yourselves – set them to work to make our world a better place.
Visit the website for more details.
Rewrite The Future: Climate Conversations
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on February 11th, 2010
Source: Climate Action Calendar
Has the political debate left you unsure about climate change? About your role in responding to it? Do we have the solutions needed? How can we make the necessary changes? Hear from respected climate scientist David Karoly and other experts, then join local residents and community groups for interactive discussion on climate change and our options and priorities for a sustainable future.
This forum aims to inform people about the issue of climate change and solutions for effective mitigation as well as facilitate participants’ contribution to a discussion about priorities for action. It is intended for people who are concerned about climate change but are confused by the current debate; those who wish to know more about the solutions and options for effective mitigation of further climate change; and those who would like to move from interest to action on climate related issues.
Thu 18 Feb, 6 – 9pm
Chandelier Room, Hawthorn Town Hall, Burwood Road, Hawthorn.
All members of the community are invited to attend.
Local community groups are also invited and space for a display will be made available.
Entry by gold coin donation
Organic refreshments provided courtesy of the City of Boroondara.
RSVP Fiona Armstrong 0438 900 005 or fiona-armstrong@bigpond.com
Organised by climate action group Lighter Footprints
This event is part of the Sustainable Living Festival www.slf.org.au/calendar
FOE Campaign: Emissions Reductions Target
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on December 29th, 2009
Source: Friends of the Earth Melbourne
Image: greenpeace finland via flickr CC
Dear friends,
We have an urgent action alert about Australia’s emissions reduction targets, which it must lodge by 1 FEBRUARY. We need to flood the PM’s office with messages between now and mid January – PLEASE take action, and please pass this on to your networks. If you are happy to do the action, please check here: http://www.foe.org.au/climate-justice/media/news-items/2009/australia-must-commit-to-deep-emissions-cuts-in-the-copenhagen-accord
For the full story, please read on….
As we know, the Copenhagen talks ended without agreement to set binding emissions reduction targets.
Instead, all that could be managed was a voluntary agreement, which was ‘noted’ rather than formally adopted.
If it is eventually enacted, it will fail to:
· ensure deep enough emissions cuts to stop global temperatures exceeding 2 degrees Celsius,
· offer enough money to help developing countries tackle dangerous climate change.
The very existence of the Copenhagen accord will also make a strong, fair, and legally-binding agreement more difficult to achieve in the coming years.
Australia was one of the countries that lobbied for the Accord. The accord will list the voluntary emissions reduction targets by developed and developing countries, in Annexes to the main document. Countries are asked to provide their target by February 1, 2010.
This is why we have issued this alert.
We still have time to pressure the Australian government to atone for its destructive behaviour at Copenhagen, by demanding it commit to deep emissions reductions targets in its February commitment.