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School Strike 4 Climate: Make it a #ClimateElection
We are facing a climate emergency. Through the School Strike 4 Climate, children and young people, who will pay the greatest price for climate change inaction, are finding their voice and demanding that politicians start showing leadership in responding to this global crisis. Continue reading
Australia’s CO2e emissions continue to rise
Despite attempts by the Government to bury the news, the latest update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory from the Department of the Environment and Energy show that the total emissions of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) are rising. Based on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate change, Environmental sustainability
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Some good articles/links – 2015 hottest year on record
The first collection of readings for this year makes sobering reading – in fact it makes for scary reading. As predicted, 2015 was the hottest year on record with a big rise in the average global temperature. (But there are … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate change, News, Sustainability
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The Sydney People’s Climate March
Yesterday my family and I joined around 45,000 people at the Sydney People’s Climate March. We travelled down from Newcastle with some of our friends from Transition Newcastle and another 100 or so other people going to the rally. It … Continue reading
The People’s Climate March
This weekend there will be thousands of events around the globe in the lead-up to the Climate Change talks in Paris. In Australia, the main focus is on marches in each of the capital cities although there are events in … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate change, People's Climate March, Sustainability
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Saturday quote
Continuing with the theme of yesterday’s weekend reading, this week’s quote is from Pope Francis’s encyclical on caring for the environment. If you liked this post please follow my blog (top right-hand corner of the blog), and you might like … Continue reading
Some weekend reading – The Papal encyclical
Yesterday the Pope released his encyclical on caring for the environment. I started working in peace and social justice issues largely through Christian groups and, despite now being an atheist, have great respect for people who accept the radical social … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Climate change, Environment, Pope Francis
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Coal is good for humanity? Tony Abbott, climate change & wind farms
Last year the Australian Prime Minister said, “Coal is good for humanity”! He went on to say Coal is essential for the prosperity of the world. Energy is what sustains our prosperity, and coal is the world’s principal energy source … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Climate change, Politics, Renewable Energy Target, Wind farms
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Climate change, health and children
Our health is dependent on a healthy planet and ecosystem [1, 2], and thus climate change is a global public health problem [1, 3, 4]. The longer we leave taking serious action, the harder it will be to address the … Continue reading
Some weekend reading
Every Friday I post some links to articles, videos or other resources that have caught my eye during the week. Some might be quite recent, but others might be older ones I have revisited or recently discovered. They will mainly … Continue reading
