The campaign to Replace Hazelwood power station with renewable energy (and energy efficiency) is gathering strength. You may have seen the coverage in the media recently as well as Hazelwood’s owners’ outrageous attempt to sabotage energy efficiency programs. Hazelwood brown coal-fired power station near Morwell is Australia’s most polluting power station. Replacing it with renewable [...]

Sunday 14 February12noonMelbourne Town Hall, Swanston St, City. Seats are limited, to book your free seat go to: http://t10.eventbrite.com/ Featuring: The Governor of Victoria Professor David de Kretser ACUncle Bob Randall traditional owner of UluruProfessor Will Steffen, Executive Director, ANU Climate Change InstituteSenator Christine Milne…and many more. At both the state and national levels, local [...]

Photo: The Age Millions of people in around 50 countries have marched this weekend to demand a strong, fair and binding deal at the Copenhagen climate talks. Around 100,000 protested in Copenhagen itself, while Melbourne had the biggest rally in Australia with police estimates putting the crowd at a massive 40,000 people. The Walk Against [...]

Some fun and interesting climate change events happening in the next couple of weeks in our local area – all free and all welcome: 1. Renewable is Do-able public meeting – Thursday 3 December2. Ride Planet Earth bike ride – Sunday 6 December3. Walk Against Warming – Saturday 12 December Details below: The Walk Against [...]

GetUp’s ReEnergise Australia campaign has been knocking on doors in Kensington and Richmond in the federal electorate of Melbourne, talking to people about the potential for renewable energy to power Australia and create thousands of clean energy jobs. Over 1600 of the 1700 people that GetUp spoke to signed their petition, asking Lindsay Tanner, the [...]

Reminder: SAVE SOLAR SYSTEMS RALLY – 5:30 FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER, PARLIAMENT HOUSE The building of the first large-scale solar power plant in Australia is in doubt. The Solar Systems power plant will create 1,000 renewable energy jobs, power 45,000 homes and uses home grown, Australian designed and built, world leading technology. As the administrators look [...]

Over 100 people had their photo taken on Saturday outside Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station, sending a message to Kevin Rudd that we want science based climate change policies, not trade-offs to the big polluters and vested interests, which is an accurate description of his current climate change policy proposals. This was part of the [...]

Are our leaders criminally insane? Or maybe they live in a parallel universe?These questions may seem harsh (and probably weird), but they need to be asked urgently in the face of developments in the past week. First we’ll set some context. The climate science keeps getting worse. Climate change is happening faster and faster, with [...]