Got a compost problem?  Want to chat about your worm farm?   Or maybe just improve your sense of humus? Then come to the Clifton Hill Compost Mates surgery, at the Quince Cafe, corner of Spensley and Berry streets, near to Clifton Hill train station. Dr Compost will be there from 10.30am till 1pm, Saturday 12th [...]

Love solar power? Come along to a forum on a community solar project for Yarra. We are looking at creating a medium-scale community-owned rooftop solar power “station” in our local area. DATE Saturday May 19th TIME 11am, promptly concluding at 1pm VENUE Athol Gill Centre, 100 Hodgkinson St Clifton Hill. (Close to the 86 tram, [...]

Join community leaders, transport experts and Adam Bandt MP to find out what we can do to protect our city from the Baillieu government’s plan to drive an East-West tollway through our community.

Wednesday, 2 May, 7pm – 8.30pm
Dan O’Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053

Let’s make Martin Ferguson pay some Big Attention to Big Solar.
Big Solar Poll door-knocking – Sat March 31 and Sat April 14 in Clifton Hill and Preston, 1-4pm including training session.
Email taegen -at- ycan.org.au to let us know you are coming

Cultivating Community & Yarra Climate Action Now happily present a forum on community gardens in the City of Yarra and a workshop for helping home and community gardeners compost at home.

Sunday March 18th, 11am-1pm, Gordon St Laneway, access next to 23 Gordon St, Clifton Hill

Come along to Yarra Climate Action Now’s launch of the national Big Solar Campaign. Saturday 3 March, 1-3pm  **NOTE NEW INDOOR LOCATION** North Fitzroy Primary School – Corner of Fergie St and Alfred Cres, North Fitzroy. Just across the road from Edinburgh Gardens.   We will be having a delicious picnic, a short presentation on [...]

Once again the Sustainable Living Festival is upon us. The big weekend will be from 17-19 of February at Federation Square. Don’t miss the fascinating talks, delicious food and informative stalls!

The HRL proposed new coal-fired power station is being propped up by a $100 million grant provided by taxpayers. HRL have not met their milestones and the Federal Government now has grounds to remove the grant. Removing the subsidy will kill this insane project. Come along to the rally and call for Feds to take HRL’s grant away. Wednesday 1 February, 12.30pm, Parliament House, Spring St, Melbourne.

Martin Ferguson is an energy minister that prefers 19th Century fossil fuels over renewables, and he’s not afraid to show it. Come along to this early morning action on Tuesday 13 December in East Melbourne before his speech to the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) to let him know we want renewable energy, not coal, gas, oil and Uranium.

In this article we outline some of the major fossil fuel projects being planned for Victoria, and the battle being waged by local communities to stop them.