Get your entries in!
Tomorrow is the last day for entries to the 350 schools art competition: a chance to submit your photographs, artworks, animations and videos on the 350 theme.
Full details on our website, and there’s great prizes to be won!
Add comment October 15, 2009
350: A Day of Art and Action
We’d like to invite you to participate in our free community festival on
Saturday October 24th as part of the global 350 Day of Action on
climate change! It will take place from 10 am to 1pm at the Coburg
Concert Hall at Moreland Civic Centre, 90 Bell St on Saturday 24th
October. It should be really fun!
Organised by Climate Action Moreland, Moreland Energy Foundation, Moreland City Council and CERES.
Highlights include:
1) A fantastic VEGETABLE SCULPTURE of 350 pieces of locally grown fruit
and vegetables!
We’ll assemble 350 pieces of home and locally grown fruit and vegies
into an exciting and unsual artist directed sculpture. Home grown vegetables are a key part of the transition to a sustainble future and we want to take this message to the world!
We’ll put the 350 logo alongside and send photos and timelapse of our sculpture to the 350 international media stream. It will join hundreds of other innovative images from people worldwide promoting the number 350 as the safe upper limit of CO2 in the atmosphere for our climate.
2) Sound sculptures by internationally acclaimed artists Ros Bandt and
Albert Mishriki
3) Free hour long bike maintainence workshop from Human Powered Cycles
4) An inspiring talk on how we can transition to below zero emissions
from Beyond Zero Emissions
5) A display of artworks about 350 by school students.
6) Climate activism, sustainability and community related stalls!
Tea, coffee and food provided!
For the Concert Hall, go around the back of Moreland Civic Centre and
enter off Urquhart St. Come along for a great fun morning.
If you can bring produce, please RVSP so we can get approximate
numbers of vegetables attending! Tell us that you’re coming and how
many pieces you expect to bring. Please email
ellenmroberts@yahoo.com.au
Thanks and we looking forward to seeing you there!
Add comment October 14, 2009
Important message from a HUNGRY BEAST – Australian Coal Association TVC
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Sign here and Seal the Deal on a global agreement to combat climate change
Add comment October 4, 2009
Victoria governments black balloons 65,000 a minute
Whos counting the ballons now
Add comment September 18, 2009
Breaking News Hazelwood power station
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Switch Off Hazelwood, Switch Off Coal, Switch On Renewables!
12-13 September!
“Switch off Hazelwood” is a day of fun, creative and inspiring peaceful community action at Hazelwood coal power station. This march and protest at the gates of the Hazelwood Power Station, is organised by community members who care about climate change.
We need you all there!
The Hazelwood protest is the community climate movement’s big protest action in the lead up to the Copenhagen negotiations. It’s timed to coincide with the peak arctic ice melt, and it’s far enough ahead to have a bearing on the Copenhagen negotiations, which are happening now!
The day is building to be a big success!
It is billed as a protest and peaceful mass civil disobedience and we need everyone concerned about climate change to be involved
Here’s what it means:
At 11am on Sunday September 13, 2009 we will meet on the corner of Brodribb & Nadenboushs Rd (South of Morwell), and march to the front gates of the Hazelwood coal power station.
There are two distinct arms to the event:
You can protest outside the station with banners, clowns, some great creative and positive props, music and speakers. Green’s senator Christine Milne is planning to speak – she’s one of the few politicians advocating a reasonable science based approach to climate change. Other speakers include climate campaigner and renewable energy expert, Sven Teske from Greenpeace, Germany and Melbourne doctor and Hazelwood organizer Dr Merryn Redenbach.
At some point in the day, the second arm of the protest will attempt to walk on to the station to serve a “Community Decommission Order”. This completely peaceful act of protest may result in those people being liable for charges of trespass: a decision that people have been willing to take because of the scale of the threat to our well-being by climate change.
Participants in both groups are equally important!
You do not need to be in an arrestable position to play a vital role in this community protest and mass civil disobedience!
Further Information:
Background
Coal burning power stations are one of the main contributors to climate change, which poses an enormous threat to the world and it’s inhabitants. Hazelwood is one of the dirtiest coal power stations in the industrialised world. It releases an average of 17 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. It was scheduled to be shut down this year, however it was given a lifeline by the ALP state government in 2005 allowing it to continue operation until 2031. We need support renewable energy instead and extend the lifeline to our planet!
Details of the Event
On 11am on Sunday September 13, 2009 we will meet on the corner of Broadribb & Nadenboushs Rd (South of Morwell) and march to the front gates of the Hazelwood, rallying to ‘Switch on Renewables and Switch off Coal’ and slap a Community Decommission Order on Hazelwood Power Station.
The event will be well organized with speakers, media link ups, first aid and medical help available but you’ll need to bring your own food and drink.
Affinity Group organizing
There will be a meeting of “affinity groups” for the event this coming Sunday at 2pm. If planning to attend please notify Louise Morris:
Still need convincing?
Climate change is a threat of unprecedented proportions to our world and all it’s inhabitants. People who have never been involved in protest before are getting involved in protests over climate change. The science says we need to be reducing global emissions by 2015 – only 5 years away – to avoid run away climate change. We need to motivate our politicians to act fast enough – that means stopping burning coal and building renewable energy ASAP. We need to speak strongly, loudly and persistently until it happens!
Please come along on the day! If possible, RSVP on the website to help with planning for the day. Details of the protest and how to get there are on the website: www.switchoffhazelwood.org
September 3, 2009
RET legislation: the fossils cling on for dear life
The renewable energy target bill has now been passed in Parliament, legislating that 20 percent of electricity will come from renewable sources by 2020. The scheme works by compelling electricity retailers to buy electricity from renewable sources.
Investment in electricity from tidal and wave technologies will get a boost, but the geothermal industry is voicing disappointment that no portion of the target was set aside for it. Considering the huge potential of geothermal energy in Australia, this is a kick in the teeth for large scale renewable energy production.
Industry has again put out its hand, demanding yet more government money. Under new concessions demanded by the Coalition, the number of industries to be compensated for higher electricity prices was increased from three to about 40. Once again the government kneels down before the already massively subsidised fossil fuel industry.
Incredibly, electricity from coal seam methane gas – a coal mining waste product – has been classified a renewable energy source and will earn rewards under the scheme. So coal miners are given renewable credits for burning fossil fuels.
While the government will now be patting itself on the back and promoting its green credentials to anyone willing to listen, there is a long, long way to go before Australia is free from the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry. And a renewable energy target wouldn’t even be necessary if the market was set up to accurately reflect the true cost of carbon emissions. But that day seems a long way off.
Add comment August 24, 2009
