Posts filed under ‘Event’
Community forum: the politics of pollution
Hear the facts on carbon pricing and get your questions answered.
What: Community forum
Where: Brunswick Town Hall
When: 7pm, Monday 29th August
Speakers:
Adam Bandt MP Member for Melbourne Member, Multi Party Committee for Climate Change
Richard Denniss Executive Director, Australia Institute
David Karoly, Climate Scientist, Member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Having trouble getting the facts about the Government’s Carbon Pricing Legislation?
- Can’t hear anything over the sound of mining companies and the Murdoch media machine?
- Wish you had the answers to those pesky three word slogans?
Inform yourself and join the debate — don’t leave our future in the hands of Tony Abbott and the shock jocks.
Hosted by the Moreland Greens.
Stop Stop HRL! It’s getting hot in here (so switch off all your coal!)
Here at Climate Action Moreland for the last year or so we’ve been fighting against the new coal fired power station planned for Victoria. The HRL power station is named after HRL Ltd, the company that will build it (who said coal companies lacked imagination?). It’s billed as ‘clean coal’ but in fact will be no cleaner than other black coal fired power stations. Every year of its life it will fill Victoria’s atmoshpere with millions of tonnes of pollution.
Climate Action Moreland have written submissions, sent emails, attended community briefings and put our case that instead of more coal we need to be switching immediately to renewable energy.
So imagine our dismay when last Friday, the Environment Protection Authority gave the green light to start work on a new coal fired power station for Victoria. The HRL power station will cause million tonnes of pollution, impact the health of local residents and divert public and private money away from clean renewable energy projects.
Upcoming Event: Sustainability in the Pub
In collaboration with the wonderful Moreland Energy Foundation, on Thursday May 12 at 6pm – 8pm, Climate Action Moreland present Sustainability in the Pub. This month we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the just plain neutral of carbon offsetting.
Should we offset? How does it all work? Does someone REALLY plant a tree when we press the magic offset button?
With Climate Action Moreland own Charmaine Chew, talking about her project journeysforclimatejustice, Lee Tan, Asia Pacifc Campaigner from the Australian Conservation Foundation about her visit to Australian government funded offset projects in Indonesia and an excellent speaker from MEFL.
At everyone’s favourite … In The Pub venue, the Edinburgh Castle, corner Albion Street and Sydney Road.
Doorknocking for 20 000 Conversations about Renewable Energy before June!
In June Rob Oakeshott will table 20 000 renewable energy surveys collected from around the country by climate action groups like us as part of the national 100% Renewables Campaign.
We’ve set a target of 500 surveys, and we’ve already started, talking to people at the Sydney Road festival (see Jody pictured above), in the Coburg Mall, and coming up this weekend in fantastic Fawkner.
If you’d like to be a part of this national community campaign for green energy – get in touch! Details are below:
Doorknocking for Renewable Energy
Saturday, May 7, 1pm – 4pm (training from 1pm – 2pm)
Meet at Fawkner Neighbourhood House at the CB Smith Reserve
Corner of Jukes Road and Williams Road, Fawkner
Call Ellen on 0408 583 694 for more information.
March Politics in the Pub – Carbon Pricing
‘Renewable Energy or Just Less Money for Beer’ was the question that animated the discussion at Climate Action Moreland’s first Politics in the Pub for 2011. Views in Climate Action Moreland have been mixed on this most hotly of debated issues, proving that we do represent a broad cross section of Morelandian society!
We are all united on the need for urgent climate action however, and so the debate was focussed on whether or not carbon pricing would be effective to actually start to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While some of the discussion considered the more technical aspects of carbon pricing, many people also added their thoughts on the political implications of either choosing to implement a carbon price now or whether we should wait for more clear alternatives.
What do you think about carbon pricing? Tell us your thoughts.
If we don’t get the carbon price, will Tony Abbott be elected? If we do, will this mean that we see no more action on climate in Australia, even though the carbon price will not significantly drive down emissions in its current form?
New Meeting Schedule
We have now moved to meeting fortnightly.
Due to Easter our next meeting will be
Tuesday 12th May
6:30 Radical Grocery
6 Wilson Avenue, Brunswick
A list of the next few meetings can be found here
CAM drinks – Sunday 30 Jan
This year, CAM’s 2011 drinks has been organised to coincide with Transition Brunswick‘s picnic! It will be great to meet others who are interested and involved in making our lifestyles and neighbourhoods more resilient and sustainable.
- Sunday 30 Jan, 3pm
- Warr Park – next to Brunswick Neighbourhood House (near cnr Albion & De Carle Sts)
A Snake For All Seasons (a crafty draughty activity)
Charmaine (CAM member extraordinaire) was wandering along Sydney Road and noticed a sign outside the Baptist Church in Brunswick. The sign advertised a free drop in session for women interested in learning to sew. “What a great idea,” she thought as she made her way into the building. She met Jennifer, who volunteers regularly with the Sewing Group as well as the Church. They got chatting, and crafty ideas to raise awareness about climate change were soon exchanged. (more…)
Energy Basics
Join us for a concise, practical and easy to understand introduction into how our we produce and use energy in Australia.
How we produce our energy has enormous consequences for everyone, but often we don’t feel confident in our opinions because energy production seems so specialised and complex.
So, to give you the nuts and bolts on Victoria’s energy system, Climate Action Moreland is partnering with Beyond Zero Emissions to present Energy Basics, from 2 pm to 4pm at Ceres Learning Centre next Sunday 3rd October. (more…)
